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.