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The ASAP program consists of the following innovative combination of services:

1. Comprehensive Intake Assessment utilizing ASAM criteria
2. Treatment Planning & Case Management
3. Education in Substance Abuse
4. Coping Skills Training to acquire Sobriety Skills
5. Group Therapy
6. Multi-family Therapy
7. Emotional Processing and Healing
8. Urine Drug Testing
9. Comprehensive Discharge Planning utilizing ASAM criteria
10. ASAP Afercare Programming

The ASAP program is 30 total sessions in length. Each session is 3 hours long. Adolescents spend three evenings per week for ten weeks committed to the Program. Parents are required to participate with their teen in one of these evenings each week in Multi-Family Group. ASAP reserves the right to refuse admittance to families with parents who refuse to participate. The ASAP Program is a lot of work - This intensive treatment regimen is critical to the successful treatment of substance abuse.



ASAP Treatment Philosophy:

1. Adolescents present unique developmental issues that influence all areas of treatment. Adult treatment models are ineffective with adolescents.

2. Alcohol and drug abuse are crippling problems for the adolescent, the adolescent's family, and society. Alcohol and drug abuse are potentially life threatening.

3. Treatment must be individualized, flexible and creative and at the same time provide needed structure for the individual and the family in crisis.

4. Family participation is critical. Treatment is most often successful when the family moves together through the difficult process of healing and changing.

5. Successful treatment requires more than just attendance. Honest lifestyle evaluation and meaningful life changes are fundamental to successful recovery.

Following acceptance into the Adolescent Substance Abuse Program, treatment begins immediately. The primary modality utilized is group therapy. Each group therapy session is three hours in length and includes Drug Education, Coping Skills Training, and Emotional Processing components.

Drug Education: Knowing the Self and the Disease

The Drug Education component is designed to provide critical information and actively involve adolescent clients in hands-on learning activities. All adolescents, no matter how experienced, need more and better information. The following topics are covered:

Coping Skills Training: The Skills To Be Different

In the Coping Skills Training component adolescents and family members receive instruction and then practice the skills necessary to successfully manage recovery. Role-playing, homework assignments, and verbal presentations are among the technique that may be used. The topics include:

Emotional Processing: Uncovering and Healing of Emotions

The third component of each ASAP group therapy session is Emotional Processing. The focus here is emotional recovery, where adolescents work through the life experiences and emotions that have kept them blocked. The therapist will lead the adolescents through the process of getting to the "heart" of their feelings, thoughts and behaviors. No treatment can be considered complete without this emotional healing process. Emotional healing allows the adolescent and parents the best chance for uniting the family and enjoying long term recovery.



Multi-Family Therapy: Rebonding and Growing Together

Multi-Family night follows the same format as above, except that the Drug Education, Coping Skills Training and Emotional Processing components focus directly on family dynamics. The Multi-Family concept places emphasis on families confronting, helping and supporting each other. Trust and healthy communication is renewed in each family. Conflict resolution techniques are taught to enable calm to return to the home environment as soon as possible. The normal stresses of family life are addressed, as are the extraordinary stresses that inevitable accompany teen drug use. Homework assignments are assigned to each family that foster re-bonding through sober recreation. Hands-on skills training for each family member includes the following areas:

 



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