Our treatment programme focuses on safety, empowerment, and support. Residents are able to establish interpersonal relationships and put the practical skills they have to use. They are also encouraged to take part in new activities, hobbies and attend to studies or work.
Developing life skills
Residents can expect daily living to be incorporated into all the components of their personal recovery programme to ensure they develop the necessary life skills to reintegrate into society. In addition to the chef we provide for the delivery of evening meals, we offer nutritional guidance and a food management system to incorporate the necessary skills needed to create balanced meals for themselves.
Phases are followed to enhance personal growth and development in small incremental stages during each resident’s stay.
The first phase provides the most structure with limited freedom so residents don’t feel overwhelmed after arriving as they begin practising new behaviours and social skills. The last phase allows residents to face challenges with increased freedom and less supervision, but this is always supported by the safe haven and strict adherence to sobriety rules provided by Bellevue.
Adapting to sober living
In our programme we have found that limits and responsibilities early in the residence helps individuals adapt to the sober living environment more easily. And as people develop stability in their residence and recovery, they tend to be more successful with the increased freedom and autonomy afforded in each of the phases.
Structured days, therapy and group meetings encourage residents to resist temptation and learn how to deal with triggers.
One-on-one sessions
Support staff and counsellors work alongside residents in group and in one-to-one sessions. These sessions look into the aims, objectives and needs of individuals, and are the basis on which we formulate care plans for each resident and help them to access external support networks.
Residents are encouraged to look for employment, work in the community or further their education to give their recoveries a firm foundation to base their future lives and careers on.
We deliver our programmes in English. Although we try to provide translated and accessible programme materials, residents need a basic grasp of the English language to be able to participate and engage in the programmes.
A wide range of treatment options are available
A range of treatment options are available depending on each residents’ recovery journey. These programmes operate along the lines of a therapeutic community, offering a person-centred approach with individual treatment plans in an evidence-based structured programme.
The therapeutic community is designed to encourage the development of life and social skills through engagement in daily work and activity routines. In addition, structured group work embraces cognitive behavioural therapy methods as well as behavioural role-play therapy.
Therapeutic community
At the heart of the therapeutic community is peer support. Residents help and nurture each other as they move through the programme. Working together and taking responsibility for the smooth running of the house provides a safe, supportive and structured environment where residents can look at the underlying reasons for their substance use and develop the skills necessary to move on to live free from addiction.
The 12-step programme
12-step programmes have been helping alcohol and substance abusers to recover and transform their lives for close to 100 years. By utilising the overwhelming benefits of these programmes in conjunction with proven clinical therapies to treat addiction, our residents have unparalleled access to the recovery resources they need to achieve and maintain long-term abstinence.
AN OVERVIEW OF A DAY OF TREATMENT AT BELLEVUE SOBER RESIDENCE:
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