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My Addicted Child: Codependency, Enabling and the Road to Recovery
Do you know someone who has an addiction? Are you worried sick about their health and life?
There is good news. There is a solution.
My Addicted Child lays out a path of family-based treatment that works.
Larry Fritzlan LMFT and Avis Rumney LMFT know what works. In the words of the Clinical Director of a nationally known residential treatment
“For those who follow [Larry’s] discharge recommendations, including ongoing family treatment, the success rate approaches 100%. For those who don’t follow our recommendations, the success rate approaches zero.”
Fritzlan and Rumney describe a treatment approach that can lead not only to sobriety for the addict, but to the addict recouping lost development, and to both the addict and family members becoming healthy individuals who can function together, as a healthy family and in the world.
Everything you need to get started is in this book. You, as a concerned parent, hold the key. You can begin today.
Larry Fritzlan, LMFT, has been a licensed psychotherapist and a certified addiction specialist for almost 20 years. He is one of the few psychotherapists who is also a certified interventionist, Larry’s passion is to help teens, young adults and their families escape from the downward spiral of addiction. He founded Steps to Freedom, one of the first family-based, long-term addiction and codependency treatment programs.
Avis Rumney, LMFT, a licensed psychotherapist in private practice for over 30 years, specializes in food and weight problems, addiction, codependency, and family therapy. She is Cofounder of Steps to Freedom and is dedicated to fostering recovery for individuals and families, and supporting them to grow and flourish. Avis is the author of Dying to Anorexia, Treatment and Recovery.
For more information, please
MyAddictedChild.com addiction, recovery, intervention, addicted child, addiction treatment, rehab addict, drug addiction, addiction recovery
There is good news. There is a solution.
My Addicted Child lays out a path of family-based treatment that works.
Larry Fritzlan LMFT and Avis Rumney LMFT know what works. In the words of the Clinical Director of a nationally known residential treatment
“For those who follow [Larry’s] discharge recommendations, including ongoing family treatment, the success rate approaches 100%. For those who don’t follow our recommendations, the success rate approaches zero.”
Fritzlan and Rumney describe a treatment approach that can lead not only to sobriety for the addict, but to the addict recouping lost development, and to both the addict and family members becoming healthy individuals who can function together, as a healthy family and in the world.
Everything you need to get started is in this book. You, as a concerned parent, hold the key. You can begin today.
Larry Fritzlan, LMFT, has been a licensed psychotherapist and a certified addiction specialist for almost 20 years. He is one of the few psychotherapists who is also a certified interventionist, Larry’s passion is to help teens, young adults and their families escape from the downward spiral of addiction. He founded Steps to Freedom, one of the first family-based, long-term addiction and codependency treatment programs.
Avis Rumney, LMFT, a licensed psychotherapist in private practice for over 30 years, specializes in food and weight problems, addiction, codependency, and family therapy. She is Cofounder of Steps to Freedom and is dedicated to fostering recovery for individuals and families, and supporting them to grow and flourish. Avis is the author of Dying to Anorexia, Treatment and Recovery.
For more information, please
MyAddictedChild.com addiction, recovery, intervention, addicted child, addiction treatment, rehab addict, drug addiction, addiction recovery
190 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 2, 2015
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September 10, 2021
Wish I’d found this about 10 years ago.
September 4, 2024
I can't really review this one way or another because I quickly realized a lot of the systems and advice of this book is not applicable to my country, family dynamic and etc.
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