Self-help groups are organizations where individuals with common concerns, issues, or struggles come together to share their experiences and provide support to each other. These groups can address a variety of challenges such as addiction, mental health issues, health problems, grief, divorce, and other difficulties in life. There are numerous studies worldwide, including in our country, demonstrating the effectiveness of self-help groups in addiction treatment, such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. This study aims to understand the functions of self-help groups and their significance and role in addiction treatment.

Dependence; It is a disease with biological, psychological and social aspects. Especially the deterioration in family function has caused this disease to be considered as a family disease at the same time. These families need help and counseling in social relations, communication, economic problems, domestic violence and negative emotions. In this review article, emotion-focused couple therapy practices in the spouse problems of addicted patients are summarized.

Rehabilitation includes the destruction of the behavioral patterns brought about by addiction and their replacement with new behavioral patterns, starting to establish relationships with other people in the environment in which they live and establishing new forms of relationships, and reorganizing family and environmental relations that have been disrupted during the period of substance use. Since alcohol and substance use disorder is a complex picture that causes many biopsychosocial problems, the treatment of individuals consists of medical treatment, psycho-social treatment and social rehabilitation programs. Social rehabilitation programs are very important in order to reintegrate individuals with alcohol and substance use disorders into society and to ensure their social functionality.