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Check out our latest collaborative article Global Family Recovery Alliance: Launch of a strengths-based approach to family recovery.

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While the concept of peer-based mutual aid is evident in organisations like Al-Anon, with the underlying assumptions of empowerment and lived experience, little has been researched or written about the potential for a family recovery model predicated on social contagion and positive growth, and how recovering families may not only help each other but may act as a force for good in the communities in which they are based.

For our model, we are making a number of assumptions about how families recover – and it is important to note that several of the authors of this article have their own lived experience as family members and so can draw on our own experiences.

How is family recovery a part of process of post-traumatic growth?

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