Family

MTC Family Relationship Building

Labels such as Hero, Scapegoat, Mascot, and Lost Child are often used to classify family members. Although this is fairly easy to do it just continues to encourage individualist separation from the family. Family likeness and continuity are normally not addressed. In the long run many treatment participants leave their short stay with a deeper indentation of being an outcast, different than the rest of the family and community. Feeling even more singled out and alone, the person thriving for acceptance and love is headed towards further feelings of not being a needed person, in the family and society, and probable depression. Add this to abusing alcohol and or other drugs (AOD) and further down the funnel the person will go. In search of what their PROBLEM is they seek out doctors to see if medication can alleviate this weight of nonaccomplishment and not fitting in. Normally, the doctor needs to continue having a practice, making money, and keeping satisfied patients, so they prescribe Xanex, Valium, Ativan, and other products that are just not a good idea for the AOD abuser.

Parenting Classes: Every Tuesday 6pm to 8pm

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15 traits of a healthy family:

1) listens and communicates
2) affirms and supports one another
3) teaches respect for others
4) develops a sense of trust
5) has a sense of play and humor
6) exhibits a sense of shared responsibility
7) teaches a sense of right and wrong
8) has a strong sense of family in which rituals and traditions abound
9) has a balance of interaction among members
10) has a shared religious core
11) respects the privacy of one another
12) values service to others
13) fosters family table time and conversation
14) shares leisure time
15) admits to and seeks help with problems