This is a mixed outpatient population presenting substance dependency, abuse, use, or AOD-related diagnoses. Consumers receive psychotherapy (counseling) intervention that continues until the client completes the goals of an individualized treatment plan resulting in sobriety.  Counseling sessions are designed to assist clients to develop insight regarding increased perceptions of risk, dynamics and effects of use, and strategies for achieving and maintaining sobriety.    

The assessment process often includes alcohol/other drug and psychological testing for those exhibiting symptoms of a likely co-occurring disorder.  The client is required to complete an Attitude and Behavior pretest/posttest, as well as a Readiness To Change pretest/posttest to identify the stage of change the client is presenting upon admission (and at Discharge from treatment).

Counseling methods and techniques used reflect “best practices” and are often cognitive – behavioral e.g. motivational interviewing, moral reconation, et al.  Treatment Plan objectives typically promote the client changing friends and activities to a non-use basis, developing drug and alcohol free activities and hobbies, learning to manage anger and other negative feelings appropriately, and learning to communicate in an effective manner.

Clinicians are skilled at engaging non-compliant and difficult clients; all interventions are designed to engage clients in positive behavior change.  Clients typically are referred from external sources and present at treatment with varying degrees of resistance.  Some have been unsuccessful in other treatment programs.

Some clients drop out of and discontinue treatment because of a change in their legal status, rather than the inherent program design.

At Discharge, clients are rated by the clinician on a variety of outcome measures including learning about the dynamics of substance abuse and dependency, Level of Care movement, knowledge and practice of a “recovery lifestyle”, and the stability of client employment and housing.

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