What is “outpatient care” for addiction?
Outpatient services are quite a bit broader than inpatient services. If you’re looking for a particular orientation, be it more eastern, more cognitive behavioral for that matter, the choices are much broader than residential. The choices, therefore, lie everything from one on one individual therapy to group therapies that meet once a week, to support [...]
What are the advantages of outpatient care for addiction?
Outpatient services for behavioral addiction are preferable primarily because you’re living in the environment that you’re going to live in after all the treatment is completed. With outpatient care, you’re going to be faced with the stresses of life that you’re going to have to live with later. You’re going to have to deal with [...]
What is outpatient treatment like for behavioral addiction?
A typical week, if a behavioral addict were involved in a structured outpatient program, would be very structured and monotonous. Let’s say you joined a program three days a week, three days a week you would be going to the facility, you’d be having a group, maybe what’s called a process group where you just [...]
How can recovering behavioral addicts reduce the risks in their environment?
Just knowing that there are risks out there. It isn’t only your behavioral addiction that you need to be worried about. The behavioral addiction doesn’t happen without some sort of trigger, or stimulus, especially in the cognitive behavioral sort of conceptualization. So, knowing about them, and learning to relate to these stimuli in a different [...]