In the book, ‘Substance Abuse and the Family” by Michael D. Reiter stresses on how the family structure regulates around the use of substance and the abuse cause from it. In chapter 14, he stresses about family recovery and the recovery process in which the family must take to restructure the family and their rules where they have an open honest relationship due to communicating. Brown and Lewis presented a four-stage developmental model of recovery for families dealing with alcoholism. The first stage of the model is the drinking stage. Brown and Lewis describes the emphasis of the family during this stage: to hide and maintain the secret, to be in denial and create excuses for the alcoholic, and to have the firm certainty that there
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These responsibilities may include the continuous of learning self-discipline behavior and thinking, working the steps of the 12-step program, sustaining a focus on self-recovery by shifting relationships to healing, and maintaining parenting responsibilities. The final stage of the model is Ongoing Recovery. This is the accomplishment of each individual’s focus on recovery and the reconnection with new patters of interaction. During this time, family members can approach how living in an alcoholic family has influenced them and they can grow and progress in new individualities. Lewis and Allen-Bryd based the outline established by Brown and Lewis and created the Family Recovery Typology Model. In this model, families in recovery are classified into three types. Type 1 families are when both the spouses are in recovery and the family system has collapsed from being out of control. Type II families is when only one spouse is in recovery and becoming the main focus of other members of the family. Type III families are those who are abusers of substance but do not have a recovery program. These family types incline to not pursue in treatment except when required to. To establish where in recovery the family is in comes the “wet” and “dry” family system classified by Kaufman . The wet family system is when a member is still …show more content…
The dry system is the opposite in which the member is not using anymore or causing difficulties. To change form a “wet” system to a “dry” system family members essential have to progress skills in healthy communication and moderate relationships. Also familiarizing to a new family structure,
These responsibilities may include the continuous of learning self-discipline behavior and thinking, working the steps of the 12-step program, sustaining a focus on self-recovery by shifting relationships to healing, and maintaining parenting responsibilities. The final stage of the model is Ongoing Recovery. This is the accomplishment of each individual’s focus on recovery and the reconnection with new patters of interaction. During this time, family members can approach how living in an alcoholic family has influenced them and they can grow and progress in new individualities. Lewis and Allen-Bryd based the outline established by Brown and Lewis and created the Family Recovery Typology Model. In this model, families in recovery are classified into three types. Type 1 families are when both the spouses are in recovery and the family system has collapsed from being out of control. Type II families is when only one spouse is in recovery and becoming the main focus of other members of the family. Type III families are those who are abusers of substance but do not have a recovery program. These family types incline to not pursue in treatment except when required to. To establish where in recovery the family is in comes the “wet” and “dry” family system classified by Kaufman . The wet family system is when a member is still …show more content…
The dry system is the opposite in which the member is not using anymore or causing difficulties. To change form a “wet” system to a “dry” system family members essential have to progress skills in healthy communication and moderate relationships. Also familiarizing to a new family structure,