The family recovery programme includes:

• Understanding addiction and its effects : perspectives on the consuming relationship and how these relate to your situation
• Understanding your feelings: shame, guilt, fear and anxiety, anger, loneliness, depression and hopelessness, stress
• Living with and coping with addiction : the struggle for control and the false hope of change without action
• You and your family : how things work now, how they don’t, how they could
• Values, patterns, norms, dynamics, roles, boundaries, communication
• Your role in the family
• Genogram : the generational perspective
• Developing a personal recovery plan : what it means, what is involved
• New ways of coping; new ways of being : plans for the future