Intensive Family Program
Newport Academy recognizes the importance of family participation in treatment as being critical to the success and recovery of our residents. Like many treatment centers, Newport Academy offers a family day on Saturdays along with individual family therapy throughout the week. Though this weekly format seems to be the industry norm, at Newport Academy families receive comprehensive family therapy that far exceeds other treatment centers.
Upon admission families are given the Newport Academy Family Packet which includes the Parent Guidelines as well as introductory AlAnon literature. Each family is provided a list of the AlAnon meetings in their neighborhoods and are required to attend two AlAnon meetings the first week their teen is in treatment.
On the first Friday after admission, Parents are required to attend the Parent Intensive Family Day which is 8 hours of education, experiential activities and process groups. Parents are educated about addiction as a family disease and are introduced to core concepts such as detachment, enabling and codependency. The specific agenda for this intensive program is developed based on the needs of the particular family. In the case of blended families both step-parents are required to attend. In most cases this is a 1:1 experience in which parents work with the Clinical Director and other treatment professionals to address specific issues to the family.
On the second Saturday the entire family (parents and siblings) are expected to attend the Family Program. The Saturday Family Program starts at 8am with a caravan to a local Parents AlAnon Meeting. After the meeting families return to Newport Academy for an educational presentation from one of our visiting professionals. These scholars include Dr David Smith, Chair of Addiction Medicine, presenting on the Disease Concept of Addiction, Dr James Tobin, a Harvard Medical School trained Clinical Psychologist, presenting Parent Teen Conflict in Communications, Paul Gillane, MFT a Stephanie Brown based model of Families in Recovery, and other nationally recognized treatment experts such as Michele Lob, PsyD, MFT, Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD Jeffrey Fortuna, DrPh, and Mickey Troxell, MS, CATC, CEAT II.
At approximately the fifth week after admission the family is invited to attend the Family Intensive Program in which all family members (parents and siblings) are required to attend. This intensive program within a program is held on Friday (10-6) Saturday (8-5) and Sunday (9-1) and includes educational, experiential, and process-oriented didactic, dyads, and groups. During the weekend families will participate in Equine Therapy led by nationally recognized equine therapist Mickey Troxell, as well educational presentation by Dr Cory Reich from Institute of Addiction Studies on the Disease of Addiction, Meaning & Personal Agreement; Stress, Hormonal & Neurological Change & Behavior.
Families will also have an opportunity during this weekend to not only visit with their teen but to take their teen on a 5-hour pass (providing the teen has been in treatment for a minimum of 30 days).
Following the Family Intensive Weekend, families continue to participate in the Saturday Family Program as well individual family therapy throughout remaining weeks. During this entire time the family is encouraged to continue attendance at local AlAnon meetings.
Newport Academy has found that families who made the most progress were those that recognized that addiction is a family disease. Families that are equally committed to their own recovery attending all sessions of the family program, participating in individual family therapy, and attending their own AlAnon meetings a few times a week greatly increase treatment effectiveness for their teen.
In short, Newport Academy offers a level of individual care that far exceeds industry standards. The clinical staff at Newport Academy can provide exceptional individualized treatment as a result of an exceptionally high staff to client ratio, the small size of our program, and most importantly because of our commitment to your family's recovery.
| TIME | FRIDAY 10:00-6:00 |
|---|---|
| 10:00 | All - Welcome – Outcome, Schedule, Rules of Respect, Share Stories |
| 10:30 | Individual Family Activity |
| 11:00 | Group Family Education: Disease Concept, Terms, Family Roles & Rules |
| 12:00 | Individual Family Activity |
| 1:00 | All Lunch |
| 1:30 | Group Process: Effective Parenting, Communications, Owning Your Power |
| 2:30 | Individual Family Activity |
| 3:30 | Group Process |
| 4:00 | Close |
| TIME | FRIDAY 9:00-6:00 | TIME | SATURDAY 8:00-5:00 | TIME | SUNDAY 9:00-1:00 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Welcome – Opening | 8:00 | Meet at NA | 9:00 | Welcome – Opening |
| 9:30 | Multi Family Equine Assisted Therapy (Mickey Troxelle) | 8:30- 10:00 |
AlAnon Meeting in Community (Heather) | 9:30 | Separate Process Group for Families and Teens. Q and A Families |
| 11:00 | Break | 10:15 | Breakfast Break | 10:30 | Break |
| 11:15 | Multi Family Process Group (Barbara) | 10:30 | Disease of Addiction, Meaning & Personal Agreement; Stress, Hormonal & Neurological Change & Behavior (Dr Cory Reich) | 10:45 | Individual Family Experiential Activity: Acknowledgment Of One Another |
| 12:30 | Lunch | 12:30 | Lunch | 11:45- 1:00 |
Closing Ceremony, Individual Family Sharing Most Significant Impact and Commitment Moving Forward |
| 1:30 | Individual Family Experiential Exercise: Communications Resentments and Respects (Barbara) | 1:30 | Multi Family Process Group (Barbara) | 1:00- 2:00 |
Family Good Byes |
| 2:30 | Multi Family Process Group (Barbara) | 3:00- 5:00 |
Family Visitation, Individual Family Therapy | ||
| 4:00 | Break | 5:00- 10:00 |
Family Pass | ||
| 4:15 | Family Dynamics, Genealogy Family Rules&Roles (Barbara) | 10:00 | Return from Pass & Teen Process Group | ||
| 5:45- 6:00 |
Wrap Up & Closure |
