Outpatient Treatment

Not all patients qualify for inpatient rehab treatment. For most people, the outpatient treatment program is a viable alternative to helping them achieve sobriety. Outpatient treatment programs entail visiting the treatment center at scheduled times in a week.

During these programs, you will be required to attend various counseling and education programs that last for only a few hours a week. Others require you to come in for full-day treatments several times a week. These are appropriate for people that need greater levels of care.

●        Services offered at outpatient treatments

●        Individual, group, and family therapies

●        Drug and alcohol education

●        Short and long term aftercare

●        Relapse prevention

●        Affiliations with sober living houses

Benefits of Outpatient Treatment

When choosing the right type of care for you or a loved one, it is important to consider the benefits of the particular type of care while also putting into consideration the patient’s resources, desires, needs, and likelihood of success. The benefits of outpatient treatment programs are;

●        The easier transition back into the home environment

●        Treats mild to moderate substance use disorder

●        Lower in cost than residential rehabilitation

●        One can continue to live at home while receiving treatment.

●        Flexibility in treatment program design and scheduling

●        Higher levels of autonomy

How Outpatient Treatment Can Help

A major disadvantage with the outpatient program is that people drop out. Because the program is scheduled for only a few hours a week, some patients may continue using it.A patient undergoing outpatient treatment faces strong environmental challenges like exposure to triggers that could cause them to relapse.

Some outpatient treatment facilities offer Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) during the initial treatment process.MET includes an assessment session followed by two to four individual therapy sessions. In these sessions, a patient is encouraged to think about the impacts their substance of abuse has had on their lives.

They are encouraged to think of the different courses their lives would have taken were they not using. These sessions, despite being long and the talks hard enable a patient to develop a commitment to getting and staying clean.

Contingency management therapy is a type of therapy where patients are awarded a small prize for a positive change in behavior. These incentives are given when a patient meets some kind of goal such as

●        Volunteering in the community

●        Providing proof of attendance of support groups

●        Producing a urine screen free of drugs

●        Attending sessions on time.

These rewards make the value of sobriety immediate, a shift in perspective that may even encourage a patient to be a part of long-term sobriety and therapy.

Are you tired of the constant suffering from alcohol or drug addiction, come to us for the much-needed help and we will provide you with viable solutions to your problems. No single addiction is without cure and we are here to see that you get that help. Allow the United Recovery Project to be the bridge to reaching sobriety.