Rehabilitation Unit
THERAPY PROGRAMME
Patients are guided to Full Recovery and Sober Living Wellness through an integrative model of a bio-psycho-social-educational approach.
Weekly reviews of each patient’s progress and treatment plan are arranged. This takes place during multi-disciplinary team meetings under supervision of our specialist psychiatrists.
WEEK 1: Contemplation Stage
- Expectations of self
- The effect of substance abuse on the body
- Skills training
- How did it happen?
- Self-perception
- Rational thinking
- Dealing with self-hate
- Affirmations
- Communication
- Process of chemical dependency
- Defence mechanisms
- Honesty
- Grieving process
- Self-forgiveness
WEEK 2: Commitment Stage
- Triggers and cravings
- Consequences
- Making a choice
- Skills training
- Re-claiming your life
- Taking control
- Motivational factors
- Time line
- Personal vision
- Committing to recovery
- Rational thinking
- Medical lecture – An addictive mind? The role of the brain in the process of addiction
WEEK 3: Action Stage
- Process of recovery
- Skills training
- Warning signs and symptoms of relapse
- High-risk situations
- Misbeliefs
- Prepare for acute-phase discharge
- Participation of significant others
- Medical lecture – Healing the body
WEEK 4: Maintenance Stage
- Individual therapeutic needs: psychological, physical, social, occupational, financial and spiritual
- Skills training
- Medical lecture – Establish a healthy lifestyle
WEEK 5: Maintenance Stage
- Individual therapeutic needs: psychological, physical, social, occupational, financial and spiritual
- Focus on dual diagnosis
- Inner Child
- Trauma
- Skills Training
- Medical lecture – How to manage physical and psychiatric problems which might have an effect on recovery
WEEK 6: Maintenance Stage
- Individual therapeutic needs: psychological, physical, social, occupational, financial and spiritual
- Personal skills and resources
- Personal maintenance of recovery
- Skills training
- Integration of recovery strategies
- Medical lecture – Education regarding medication
WEEK 7: Reintegration and Recycling Stage
- Preparation for extended phase discharge
- Reintegration on all levels of functioning: family life, social life, career and physical
- Involvement of significant others
- Skills training
- Recycling
- Medical lecture – What to expect and how to cope with life without alcohol, drugs and other addictive substances
