What role can a family play in helping a behavioral addict?

What role can a family play in helping a behavioral addict?

Marc Kern (Addiction Expert, Director of Addiction Alternatives) gives expert video advice on: How is a behavioral addiction similar to a substance behavioral addiction?; What is an "addictive personality"?; What can be done about an addictive personality? and more...

Ultimately, a good program would include the involvement in probably one-on-one work for the addict, as well as perhaps even one-on-work with the wife. And then some family work, where the extended family, and perhaps even the children, are involved, as well as the grandparents, where everybody is sort of on the same track. Part of the problem with recovery is, somebody goes into a treatment center or whatever, and they return to the the same dynamic, the same set of forces that set the stage in the first place. They relapse, not because they can't recover, but because the family is not on the same wavelength or on the same track, and they undermine what changes really need to really occur in the family as a whole.