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Understanding Outpatient Programs

After an intensive outpatient (IOP), the next step in you or your loved one’s recovery journey takes the form of outpatient addiction treatment. It’s part of our continuum of care and the logical conclusion to effective treatment.

Here’s where things get a bit tricky – see, outpatient addiction treatment isn’t just a level of care. Rather, it’s a way to safely and successfully transition from treatment to life. It’s a way to move from the accepting “bubble” of rehab to the often stressful and hectic world. That’s also what makes outpatient programs so vital and necessary to recovery.

Benefits of Outpatient Addiction Rehab

More than just another step, our outpatient treatment in North Palm Beach offers a safety net that, when paired with sober supports and 12-step involvement, gives you or your loved one the tools to stay sober for the long haul.

Outpatient treatment or outpatient rehabilitation is a type of substance abuse treatment program that allows individuals to receive support and therapy for their addiction issues while continuing to live at home and maintain their regular daily routines. This approach is an alternative to inpatient or residential addiction treatment, which requires individuals to stay at a treatment facility for an extended period.

Here are the key features of outpatient addiction rehab:

  • Treatment Sessions: In outpatient rehab, individuals attend scheduled treatment sessions at a treatment center or clinic. These sessions can vary in frequency and duration, depending on the specific program and the individual’s needs.
  • Variety of Therapies: Outpatient rehab typically offers a range of therapeutic interventions, including individual counseling, group therapy, family therapy, and educational sessions. These therapies help individuals address the psychological, emotional, and behavioral aspects of addiction.
  • Life Skills and Education: Outpatient programs often offer educational components to teach individuals about addiction, recovery, and strategies for preventing relapse. They may also focus on life skills, such as stress management, coping mechanisms, and relapse prevention.
  • Drug Testing: Random drug testing may be a part of the program to ensure compliance with abstinence goals and to provide a deterrent against substance use.
  • Continued Home and Work Life: One of the primary advantages of outpatient rehab is that it allows individuals to continue their daily routines, such as going to work or school and maintaining family and social commitments.
  • Transition to Aftercare: Outpatient programs can serve as a transitional step for individuals who have completed inpatient treatment. They offer continued support as individuals adapt to their post-rehab lives.

Typical Topics Discussed

Our Outpatient Addiction Treatment Center

While the focus during day/night and IOP is geared more toward individualized recovery solutions, things are a bit different in OP. Here, the focus is more relaxed and on establishing successful coping mechanisms.

It’s helpful to think of the difference between high school and college. While high school is more intensely focused – the day-in-day-out grind – college is concerned with finding your specific learning style and using that to teach meaningful lessons. That’s how we operate outpatient addiction treatment here at the Good Life. We focus on group therapy, individual therapy, workshops, and informative talks that spur inner-reflection and spark positive action.

What do I learn vs. how do I put it into action is another way to look at it.

Alright, enough waxing philosophical. What does our OP program look like?
  • An individualized, uniquely tailored treatment plan and, in many cases, the same primary therapist from IOP
  • Therapeutic groups which meet once each week and focusing on a variety of topics (explored in-depth below)
  • Informal workshops focusing on recovery topics
  • Individual therapy once each week
  • Psychiatric care
  • A strong focus on family care and involvement
  • Flexible group scheduling during the day and evening
  • Case management, including housing, work, education, legal, and medical help

While this is similar to IOP, the focus is less on understanding why and more on developing and implementing healthy living skills.

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Making Recovery Affordable

We Work With Most Major Insurance Plans

We work hard to make addiction treatment in Palm Beach County at The Good Life Treatment Center accessible and affordable. We work with most major insurance carriers to help cover many of the costs associated with treatment. Don’t worry if you don’t see your insurance listed below. Give us a call at (561) 250-8552 to learn more about your personal options for treatment.

What Goes On During Treatment?

Topics Commonly Covered in Outpatient Treatment

Relapse prevention is a common topic of discussion during outpatient treatment.

It’s common for clients to struggle with group therapy. This is especially true in the OP phase when they’re tired of a structured group environment. This happens despite the fact that peer groups have been shown time and time again to be among the most influential and helpful tools therapists have at their disposal. All of which is a long way of saying that, as mentioned above, we foster a relaxed workshop environment in outpatient drug rehab. When paired with one-on-one therapy, the result is nothing short of astounding.

Topics Included in Outpatient Treatment
  • Mental Health
  • Family Systems
  • Early-Recovery Struggles
  • Returning to Work or School
  • Stress Management
  • Rebuilding Family Relationships
  • 12-Step Outreach & Success
  • Building Healthy Habits
  • Relapse Prevention & Dealing with Cravings
  • Co-Occurring Disorders (including Poly-drug Abuse & Cross Addictions)

This list could be increased by about 1,000 more topics, but these cover the basics.

Through this dual clinical and personal approach, we’re able to offer practical and meaningful tools to you or your loved one. We’re able to guide you through the often-overwhelming world of early-recovery and provide all the support needed to flourish.

Let Us Guide You to Long-Term Wellness

Recovery Happens at Our #1 Outpatient Treatment Center in South Florida

You know what we hear over and over again? Statements like these:

  • I can’t imagine life without alcohol
  • If you can’t smoke a joint every now and then what’s the point?
  • I’m not old enough to completely give up drugs and alcohol
  • I can stop any time I want to

Behind them stands a world of fear. A life without mind or mood altering substances isn’t for the timid. It isn’t for those who aren’t ready and it shouldn’t be blindly pursed.

You or your loved one need a foundation for living.

That’s what we do here at the Good Life. We help you or your loved one to build that foundation, brick by loving brick.

Additional OP Services
  • Crisis Intervention & Trauma Therapy
  • Gender-Specific Care
  • Wellness and Adventure Therapy Activities including Boating, Fishing & More
  • Guest Lectures
  • Guidance Through the 12 Step Recovery process
  • Sunset 12-Step Gatherings
  • Community Living & Peer Support
  • Life Skill Improvement
  • Client-by-Client Progress Assessments & Analysis
  • Involvement in the South Florida Recovery Community (widely known as the recovery capital of the world)
  • Aftercare Planning
  • Continued Alumni Support
  • Drug & Alcohol Testing
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That’s where our additional outpatient addiction services enter the picture. Much like our additional IOP services, these are companions to treatment that help enhance and deepen our clients’ recovery.

We’re proud to offer many of the same support services during OP that we offer during IOP. This is just one more way we go above and beyond to make sure you or your loved one are taken care of.

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