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12 Palms Recovery Center provides a full-service residential recovery program that assist patients suffering from substance abuse, alcoholism and other addictive behaviors on the road to permanent recovery.

We offer hope for a life of sobriety by providing a unique plan for each patient’s specific needs. Our patients learn life skills and more positive behaviors under the guidance of our highly qualified staff and a very personal 2:1 patient to staff ratio.

 

This level of care involves the use of solution oriented traditional psychotherapy (group and individual), yoga, exercise, nutritional counseling, massage, recreational opportunities, relapse prevention education and therapy, and 12 Step Recovery Programs. Our Residential Level of Care has been developed to enhance the individual’s potential for ongoing recovery. It is both intensive and extensive in the number of client contact hours, the issues covered and solutions generated. We provide care 24 hours per day, in a non-hospital setting.

We focus on the "re-socialization" of the individual and use the program's entire "community," including other residents, staff, and the social context, as active components of treatment. Programs usually last for 30 days and focus on medical stabilization, abstinence, and lifestyle changes. Addiction is viewed in the context of an individual's social and psychological deficits, and our treatment focuses on developing personal accountability and responsibility and socially productive lives. The treatment is highly structured and can at times be confrontational, with activities designed to help residents examine damaging beliefs, self-concepts, and patterns of behavior and to adopt new, more harmonious and constructive ways to interact with others.

Outcomes often depend upon retaining the person long enough to gain the full benefits of treatment. Individual factors related to engagement and retention include motivation to change drug-using behavior, degree of support from family and friends, and whether there is pressure to stay in treatment from the criminal justice system, child protection services, employers, or the family. Within the program, successful counselors are able to establish a positive, therapeutic relationship with the patient. The program provides a framework for engaging drug/alcohol abusers in treatment and helping them achieve abstinence. Patients learn about issues critical to addiction and relapse, receive direction and support from a trained therapist, become familiar with self-help programs, and are monitored for drug use by urine testing. The program includes education for family members affected by the addiction.

 

IOP is a comprehensive, short term outpatient program that provides support to those afflicted with addiction. It features coordinated, intensive treatment that is more concentrated than traditional outpatient care. The treatment costs less than residential or inpatient treatment and often is more suitable for individuals who are employed or who have extensive social supports. The structure format provides medical monitoring, therapeutic groups, and activities.

It can be comparable to residential programs in services and effectiveness, depending on the individual patient's characteristics and needs. Intensive Outpatient allows an individual who is currently stable to meet their rehabilitation needs while continuing in their current employment and living situation. Generally, treatment consists of 90 day outpatient therapy. Participation for less than 90 days is of limited or no effectiveness. Components are: substance abuse evaluation, substance abuse education, relapse prevention therapy, life skills therapy, individual counseling, and family counseling.

 

This program focuses directly on reducing or stopping the addict’s illicit drug/alcohol use. It also addresses related areas of impaired functioning such as employment status, illegal activity, relationships and the content and structure of the patient's recovery program.

Through its emphasis on short-term behavioral goals, individualized drug counseling helps the patient develop coping strategies and tools for abstaining from drug use and then maintaining abstinence. The addiction counselor encourages 12-step participation and makes referrals for needed supplemental medical, psychiatric, employment, and other services.

We adopt a client-centered counseling approach for initiating behavior change by helping clients to resolve ambivalence about engaging in treatment and stopping drug use. This approach employs strategies to evoke rapid and internally motivated change in the client.