The family environment in which recovery is nurtured can become a potent trigger of relapse for an individual undergoing treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD). A growing body of evidence suggests that families characterized ...

Family interactional patterns have been proposed as significant in relapse of most psychiatric disorders. Many studies have demonstrated that patterns of interactions of family members affect the quality of relationships ...

Alcoholism is a family illness that requires treatment of the whole family, because recovery after rehabilitation seems mostly achievable when both the individual and their family are involved in relapse prevention. While ...