Co-Occurring Psychiatric and Substance Disorders Group – Wednesdays @1:30pm - 3:00PM.
The curriculm utilized is The Basics: A Curriculum for Co-Occurring Psychiatric and Substance Disorders
(Second Edition). by Rhonda McKillip
The Basics is a comprehensive, integrated curriculum that meets the needs of the dually diagnosed population and provides consistent psycho-education combining both mental health and addiction treatment approaches. The curriculum focuses on 8 subjects:
The Link Between Psychiatric and Substance Disorders
Psychiatric Disorders Within a Co-Occurring Diagnosis
Substance Disorders Within a Co-Occurring Diagnosis
The Physiological Effects of Psychiatric and Substance Disorders on Physical Health
Coping with Stress and Emotions with Healthy Alternatives to Alcohol and Drug Abuse
The Foundations of the Recovery Process
The Process of Recovery
Coping with Crisis, Preventing Relapse, and Maintaining Recovery
Interactive worksheets and inspirational handouts will be used with each session. Target Population: Female clients who struggle with mental health and addictions issues.
Education Group: Women In Recovery - Schedule TBD.
HFC uses Women in Recovery - Understanding Addiction, which is designed to be a brief education component for substance abuse treatment programs desiring to add a gender-responsive element to their services. The curriculum is designed to help women understand the signs and symptoms of addiction, factual information about the effects of a range of drugs and the connection between alcohol and drug abuse and other high-risk behaviors. In addition, Women in Recovery utilizes the evidenced-based practice of Interactive Journaling, which encourages women to participate in self-directed "homework" and self-reflection exercises that provides an opportunity for self-analysis of the impact substance abuse has on the woman’s life.
Target Population: Brief Treatment for Female Substance Abusers
Therapy Group – Women in Recovery – Tuesdays @1:30pm - 3:00PM.
HFC uses Helping Women Recover an evidenced-based gender-responsive substance-abuse treatment curriculum by Stephanie Covington that integrates theories of women’s psychological development, trauma, and addiction to meet the needs of women with substance-use disorders. The comprehensive, seventeen-session curriculum contains four modules that address the areas that women in treatment identify as triggers for relapse: self, relationships, sexuality and spirituality. In addition, issues of self-esteem, sexism, family of origin, relationships, domestic violence, and trauma will be addressed.
Target Population: Female Substance Abusers
Drug and Alcohol Therapy for Offender Populations - Schedule TBD.
The curriculum utilized is Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment: Strategies for Self-Improvement and Change (SSC). The SSC curriculum, a manual guided treatment program designed for persons with a combined history of substance abuse (SA) and criminal conduct (CC), consist of 50-sessions ran over 9-12 months. This curriculum is designed to expand the egocentric approach that focuses on the individual needs and changes of clients to include a strong socio-centric approach that focuses on looking at how the person’s behavior and choices has impacted society.
Curriculum focus will be on changing antisocial thinking and behavior and enhancing pro-social thinking, attitudes and beliefs, which challenges the individual to be more empathetic and morally responsible to others and society.
The SSC curriculum has three broad goals: prevent recidivism into criminal thinking and conduct; prevent relapse into substance use and abuse; and live a meaningful and responsible life.
Target Population: Female offenders who struggle with addictions and criminal behavior
Relapse Prevention - Schedule TBD.
The curriculum utilized is Relapse Prevention with Chemically Dependent Criminal Offenders by Terence T. Gorski. Section 1 & 2 will cover "What are my problems?" and "How did I get here?" Sections 3, 4, 5 will cover "How to Change?"
Recovery from Drugs and Alcohol is more than just being abstinent. Recovery involves a holistic life-style change that involves looking at unhealthy patterns, barriers, and triggers that will feed the addiction cycle. Learning how to identify high-risk thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and then countering them with thought-stop techniques and positive alternatives towards breaking the destructive cycle of Relapse. The inability to stop this destructive cycle jeopardizes the ability to maintain sobriety or recovery.
In Relapse Prevention the emphasis will be on creating a safe, therapeutic environment and helping clients maintain sobriety by challenging and encourage clients to take a good look at their life and break down the defenses, self-defeating behaviors, destructive thought process, criminal thinking, and high-risk behaviors.
Target Population: Female offenders who struggle with addictions and criminal behavior
