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Objectives: This study purposed to execute a forest therapy program for alcoholics’ spouses and to have opportunities for resolving conflicts among family members, enhancing sociability, and recovering self‐esteem through the program. Furthermore, we aimed to expand spouse programs, which have been merely self‐support meetings, and to lay the base for attempting various approaches. Methods: The items used in the forest therapy program consisted of spiritual health, depression, self‐esteem, forest effectiveness, etc. The program was executed for 6 days from the 20th to 25th of August, 2010, and a total of 46 subjects participated including 24 in the experiential group and 22 in the control group who did not participated in the experiment. Final data analyses used SPSS 15.1. Homogeneity between the experiential group and the control group was tested through χ²-test, t-test, and difference between the two groups in each item after the experience was analyzed through independent samples t‐test. Results: 1) Among the items of spiritual health, religious spiritual health, existential spiritual health, and overall spiritual health were statistically significantly higher in the experiential group than in the control group. 2) As to depression, the experiential group was categorized to be non‐depressed, and the control group showed light depression. 3) Self‐esteem was statistically significantly higher in the experiential group than in the control group. 4) According to the results of our experiment on forest effectiveness, the experiential group showed generally higher mean scores than the control group in emotional competence, spirituality, prospect of life, and overall forest effectiveness. Conclusion: These results presented above suggest that a forest therapy program can be effective in enhancing spiritual health, depression, self‐esteem, and forest effectiveness in alcoholics’ family members. As forest therapy programs were found to be adequate for helping the psychosocial adjustment of alcoholics’ family members, they may be useful and applicable to alcoholics’ families in the field.