Considering The Family Recovery Coach
Better Than Bottom
We can do better than “hit bottom”. The Family Recovery Coach is becoming increasingly relevant in today’s battle with addiction.
You walk into a support group, your mind is racing and you are scared to death.
The terminology may be hard to follow. It comes at you from all angles.
Angles & Terms
- Detach…
- Don’t rescue…
- Don’t worry…
- Pray…
- Set boundaries…
- Don’t enable…
- Wait until they hit bottom and want it…
- You can’t control it…
- You can’t cure it…
- And you didn’t cause it…
- Let go and Let God…
Good advice! But, many of us need more.
We leave the meeting. Keep coming back and it will get better.
But in the meantime? Please consider the following.
Points to Consider On Family Recovery Coaching
- Every family should have a family coach attached to them. Regardless of the status of the addicted individual.
- The family should be able to self-referral and receive long-term, unconditional support. Without “intervention” being the end game.
- A family coach should be supervised by a clinician(s).
- There should be an evidence-based model guiding the coach.
- Family coaches are not Alanon or Naranon sponsors.
- Family coaches are not marriage and family therapists.
Qualified Recovery Coaching
They have lived experience to build on. They should meet certain qualifications and should be held to high expectations.
This is a professional discipline.
Families should shop around for services.
Be careful, the “Facebook Superstars” are NOT qualified to support families.
Family coaches should be reimbursed by 3rd party payers.
And the entire family should be the “identified patient(s)”.
Commercial insurance should step up.
That may not happen quickly or easily. But, progressive, forward-thinking partners are stepping forward.
The future will bring a paradigm shift.
Additional Info – Family Intervention Consultation
When a family situation is complex and the loved one’s addiction presents particular challenges. A formal family intervention may be helpful.
FAVOR Greenville’s Executive Director, Rich Jones, is an ARISE Interventionist. Offering consultation and support services at the FAVOR. Using a compassionate Invitational Intervention™, the ARISE Continuum of Care is a gradually-escalating process.
A process that leads your loved one into appropriate treatment and recovery.
The addicted individual is invited to join the process. Join in from the beginning with no surprises, no secrets, no coercion, and absolute respect and love.
For more details and information about the “Family Recovery Coach” , please visit – https://favorgreenville.org/recovery/family-support/
