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The Family - From Addiction To Recovery
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(80 ratings)
223 students

The Family - From Addiction To Recovery

With Jean Wheeler
Created byOnline Recovery Academy
Last updated 11/2018
English
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What you'll learn

  • Gain a useful understanding of addiction
  • Identify and recognise behaviours that sustain or enable addiction
  • Formulate new ways of behaviour that support recovery of the addicted person and the recovery of family members
  • Understand the process of personal recovery

Course content

5 sections • 31 lectures • 2h 0m total length

  • Introduction - Jean Wheeler, Facilitator2:23

    Distinguish the addict from the illness of addiction, including behavioral addictions, to support recovery and prevent enabling the illness, while addressing the family’s exhausting cycle with education.

  • Understanding The Problem13:29
  • Addiction: Risk Factors10:00

    Explore the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual risk factors that contribute to addiction, including genetics, brain development, co-occurring disorders, dislocation, and the role of connectedness, to inform relapse prevention.

  • The Brain: Addiction's Target8:38

    Explore how addiction targets the brain, highlighting the frontal cortex and reward pathways, how denial and cravings drive relapse, and how counseling and 12-step programs support recovery.

  • More About The Brain4:38

    Explore how addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disorder and how the brain's plasticity enables healing through safety, therapy, and 12-step fellowship, rewrites neural pathways and reduces cravings.

  • Pause For Thought0:28
  • Categories Of Addiction6:13

    Explore addiction as a syndrome with four main categories—chemicals, behavioral, process addictions, and relationship protections—covering alcohol, cannabis, sex, gambling, eating disorders, social media, and the Hiroki relapse-prevention approach.

  • The Addictive Cycle1:16
  • Progression Of An Addiction3:09
  • Summary: Readings and Reflections2:48
  • Check Your Understanding

Requirements

  • This is a simple, encouraging course for anyone who is affected by another individual's addiction. All that is required is an open mind to new ideas.

Description

Join accomplished Family Therapist and addiction/recovery specialist Jean Wheeler on an exploration of addiction, it’s associated behavioral patterns, and proven pathways to recovery for the family unit. This effective approach to understanding a complex problem can help family members face the challenges of addiction by developing new coping strategies to relieve the pressures caused by addiction created through a lack of practical information.


In this Family course you will learn about aspects of addiction, patterns of behavior, typical family system responses as well as accessible resources to create the changes necessary to  set the stage for your family's recovery.


You will learn how to integrate effective, constructive techniques to help all members of the family, as well as the individual effected by addiction.


You will learn to understand and identify the, often well intentioned, family responses that can enable addictive behavior and create obstacles to the recovery process.


Clear practical video lectures, text lectures and quiz style check ins encourage changes in thinking, understanding and processing of problematic behaviors and responses to the situations created by addiction problems in the family.


Developed by professionals intimately involved in long-term recovery, with extensive clinical experience of family addiction and recovery processes the course is designed to educate, inform and support new ways of dealing with the problem.

Who this course is for:

  • Any individual who is keen to understand addiction, has a loved-one affected by addiction, has experienced adverse affects of another person's addiction, and wants to engage in solutions grounded in years of experience from addiction specialists.

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