Making_Recovery_Successful.docx PCN-275 Making Recovery Successful College of Humanit

Making_Recovery_Successful.docx    PCN-275  Making Recovery Successful  College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Grand Canyon University  PCN-275: Family Dynamics  Making Recovery Successful  It is important that when a person enters recovery that the individual's family is getting the recovery they need as well. It goes unnoticed sometimes that families experience trauma from addiction within the family and need to work past the hard times as well. Everyone in the  family system where addiction is present must get some help for everyone in the family to have a successful recovery. This paper is going to discuss how to make recovery successful by exploring the ideas of recovery within the family system, guide a family into achieving healthy recovery, and the potential risks and rewards in recovery.  Recovery Within Families  It is important to know and understand what recovery looks like within a family system. On the account that a family member has a substance use disorder, it is not only negatively affecting the addicted individual, but it also negatively affects each family member in the system differently. When addiction is present in the family system, family roles are developed to create a balance within the family, which is referred to as homeostasis. When the addicted family  member enters recovery, the homeostasis becomes disrupted. Addiction is considered to be a family disease, meaning that the family unit has been affected by the addiction. It is emphasized that when the addicted family member