Family Program
When parents first realize their teen has a problem with drugs or alcohol, the family is often in crisis and find it difficult to accept that drug abuse has affected their family. Family members can often face feelings of shame, blame, and resentment. Relationships in the entire family are affected by the abuse and often create a feeling of family "wreckage". As a result, family involvement in treatment and on-going recovery is critical to success. The more family members are involved and engaged in the treatment process, the greater the likelihood the adolescent and the family heal, recover, and succeed in treatment.
Tailored Family Treatment
Dedicated to the standard of tailored treatment, Newport Academy approaches residents and their family members as unique with varying degrees of strengths and weaknesses. Newport Academy tailors each adolescent's treatment program to ensure that both the adolescent and the family receive the individualized and familial treatment necessary to restore the adolescent to the family, and restore the entire family together in a spirit of recovery and hope.
Newport Academy anchors treatment in the context of the family in order to increase the effectiveness of treatment and recovery for both the adolescent and the family. Families are involved from the beginning when adolescents are first diagnosed and the individual treatment plan is developed. Family members participate in the assessment process and are asked to complete a comprehensive Family Assessment. The information gathered from diagnostic interviews frames the family member's involvement and is integrated into the adolescents' treatment plan. The family treatment plan is updated throughout the adolescents' stay as treatment needs change.
