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Treatment at Special & Different combines group therapy and one to one counselling. Cognitive Behavioural, Person Centred and Gestalt Therapies are delivered as an integral part of the programme by fully qualified and experienced therapists. Clients are introduced to complementary therapies such as massage, aromatherapy and acupuncture to help them develop alternative strategies of stress relief. The treatment that clients receive is of a clinical standard comparable to a residential treatment centre but at a fraction of the cost due to the fact that it is a day programme. In addition, the benefits that the clients experience by being with their families and communities as they go through the programme, informs their recovery and reduces their chances of relapse.
12 Step Facilitation Programme
Special & Different treatment is based on a core programme called The Twelve Step Facilitation Outpatient Programme by Joseph Nowinski Ph.D. (TSF). The TSF programme is for use as a guide in the clinical treatment of individuals who manifest significant symptoms of alcohol or other drug abuse or dependence according to the DSM-IV. The material for this programme was originally developed for Project MATCH, a collaborative study of alcoholism treatment. The founder of Special & Different, Rachel Young, who is a qualified Gestalt trained therapist, has developed additional assignments and workshops to reinforce and deepen the clinical treatment of the core structure. Her experience in being a part of the team that delivered the first ever alcohol treatment programme in UK prisons has been critical in developing this programme.
Project MATCH reported one year post treatment outcome results on 90% of its 1726 subjects. The data showed that TSF was effective in significantly reducing drinking behaviour and that this improvement was sustained at the time of the 12 month follow-up assessment. Longer-term follow-up studies of Project MATCH patients suggest that TSF has the best long-term outcome of the three treatments included in that study.