LifeWorks Substance Use Disorder
Lifeworks is an outpatient treatment program that includes: client flexible 1.5 hour treatment groups; open access, Monday through Friday, 8:00 am through 5:00 pm; up to six treatment hours per week; life SUD recovery and skill acquisition treatment groups focusing on:
- Substance Use Disorder Services (SUD)
- Relapse Prevention
- Life Skills
Substance Use Disorder Services Includes
- Defining addiction and alcoholism
- Education on all major substances of abuse
- Medical consequences of addiction
- Cognitive re-structuring
- Re-investing in yourself, your family, and your community
- How diet affects our cravings for substances
- Dysfunctional family systems/ACOA
- Health boundaries, healthy relationships
- Laws and statistics/cost to you/do I want to stay in "the system"?
- HIV/STD presentation
Relapse Prevention Includes
- Stages of change and the slippery slope of addiction/relapse
- Symptoms of recovery and being patient with the process
- Identifying compulsion patterns
- Identifying triggers and cravings
- Coping skills/dealing with changes in recovery
- Changing environment/creating new social connections
- Dealing with strong emotions and resolving resentment
- Conflict resolution and assertiveness training
- Re-establishing your role in the family
- Re-building trust
Life Recovery Includes
- Communication in recovery
- Creating structure and time management
- Cleaning up your debts and financial management
- Goal setting and life coaching
- Getting the job you love: resume building, interviewing, professionalism
- Exercise and nutrition
- Stress management
- Parenting
- Community engagement: voting, spiritual resources, social networking
- Anger management
- Domestic violence