Special & Different - From Despair to Hope
- To offer abstinence from mind altering substances as an achievable lifestyle goal to alcoholics and alcohol dependent clients in the form of a clinically robust treatment programme, and to provide professional support to achieve and maintain that goal.
- To develop social functioning within the context of community rehabilitation.
- To offer a holistic approach by the inclusion of life skills and achievable goals, family therapy and complementary therapies such as mindfulness and meditation, aromatherapy, reflexology and therapeutic art sessions, as well as clinical psychotherapy.
- To address personal independence and responsibility, for example to help clients maintain family and social support during the treatment process. There will be regular family meetings and communication with the family in order to facilitate a mutual learning and recovery process.
- To assess care plan objective outcomes regarding physical and psychological health, social functioning, life context and so on.
- To provide ongoing support in the form of aftercare meetings for 12 months following graduation from the programme. Clients are encouraged to develop parallel support systems in the community so that they are able to become completely independent in their lives.