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These pages have been developed with the support of:
MATUA RAKI National Addiction Treatment Workforce Development
PRACTITIONER'S PAGE: FAMILY INCLUSIVE PRACTICE (FIP)
Welcome to our FIP Practitioner's pages. These pages have been developed to equip alcohol and other drug practitioners with resources and tools that will support the development of their inclusive practice.
Many of you will be familiar with our Family Inclusive Practice (FIP) Guide in the Addictions Field. In planning this page we have used this resource as a framework. The aim is to include a broad range of links and downloads to provide material for immediate use by practitioners.
These links and connections will be frequently updated with announcements sent to the sector via the Kina database. If you would like to be kept up to date send us your details.
CLICK HERE FOR OUR DATABASE PAGE
NOTE: A Printable copy of "Family Inclusive Practice in the Addictions Field," (Kina Trust, 2004) can be found here - www.kinatrust.org.nz/myfiles/FIP.pdf
HOW TO USE THIS ON-LINE GUIDE:
We hope this web-based guide will be useful. Look at the side-bars, at left to navigate through main and sub-pages, for useful information and tools.
Like Family Inclusive Practice, itself, this resource is eclectic in its approach. The interventions described all draw on evidence-based work. While this guide includes resources that practitioners may wish to access as tools, it is also intended as a basis for further training in the field.
PRACTITIONERS, WHY TREAT FAMILIES?
When a person has an alcohol, drug or other addiction problem it is also a family and community issue - involving family in the process of recovery means more chance of successful recovery. (Kina Trust, 2004)
Taking a Family Inclusive approach in the treatment of addictions has been shown to be highly effective. It is an approach that recognises that addicted individuals do not function in isolation, and that our lives touch and affect others in profound ways. This is a broad, powerful, and evidence based approach - and as many are coming to realize,one does not need to be a "family therapist" - to work in a family context.
So, why consider family inclusion?
- More effective interventions
- Addresses related harm to families, friends and other social relationships
- Meets Standard 10 of The National Mental Health Standards
- Provides culturally responsive interventions
- Meets consumer expectations
- Responds to practitioner interest
- Offers effective collaborative approaches
Please click here to read an editorial by Alex Copello & Jim Oxford on the benefits of FIP and why a change of perspective is so necessary. Benefits of FIP 
A NATIONAL POLICY CONTEXT
The Ministry of Health and the Mental Health Commission have published numerous guides and recommendations for involving family in client mental health treatment. Standard 10 in the National Mental Health Standards, requires providers to work effectively with family members and significant others in their services. Whanau Ora, the wellbeing of whanau (the network of supports) of Maori in treatment, is a core policy for Maori (Ministry of Health, 2002). Despite these recommendations Family Inclusive Practice is still not a standard practice (Mental Health Commission, 2000, cited in Whiteside & Steinberg, 2003).
Below are useful and relevant links to standards and recommendations for practicing professionals:
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KINA - Families and Addictions Trust
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