Programs:
The Ways We Help You Change Your Life
The Salvation Army Paëtzold Rehabilitation Centre is a unique addiction treatment rehabilitation centre, featuring programs that use a research-based treatment curriculum: the New Direction Program. New Direction is a comprehensive Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) treatment program that trains recovering addicts to challenge their thinking in order to change their antisocial and addictive behavior patterns. Our centre exists to bring hope and professional assistance to any addict who seeks or needs help.
The central advantage of the Paëtzold Centre's programming is that it offers those who come to us - especially the most traditionally challenged clients such as the dually diagnosed, the institutionalized, and people from the street - the opportunity to make change and successful re-entry to community living more permanent.
Thanks to the fact that we make a variety of resources and treatment options necessary to rebuild lives immediately available as a person becomes ready for them, our clients make real changes that last.
Addiction Recovery Program (TOP)
The Addiction Recovery Program offers long-term (90-day) intervention for clients with chronic substance abuse and lifestyle issues. The program model is a cognitive-behavioral approach that emphasizes life skills, relapse prevention, resolving life area issues, and establishing community supports.
Our 'New Direction' based program has two clear aims:
Treatment principles and features:
A key feature of this program is that it includes a combination of problem-focused (e.g., cognitive restructuring) and emotion-focused (e.g. emotional support and experiential) forms of addictions therapy. This intentional blend of two approaches is designed to create a balanced and effective program that accommodates differing learning styles.
In order to complete the treatment program each client is required to complete a New Direction workbook. Clients must also be assessed by the counselling team during the weekly staff meeting to show completion of all exercises and the depth of the individual's grasp of the cognitive model as taught by the curriculum.
Positive outcomes of the New Direction program include:
Group Therapy Sessions (TOP)
Our daily interactive Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) group therapy sessions follow the following format:
Twenty-four clients gather with their principal counsellor and discuss exercises from the New Direction curriculum. There are two key areas of focus: addictive thinking and anti-social thinking. We also review and discuss thinking reports completed in evening "feelings check" sessions.
Lectures (TOP)
The Paëtzold Centre program includes morning lectures. All clients attend a 45-minute lecture that focuses on the relapse prevention curriculum from the New Direction series. Questions are welcome and answers are discussed with the group.
Participants learn what relapse is, identify and avoid situations that place them at high risk for relapse, make an effective relapse prevention plan, and begin building a positive support network. They also learn what steps to take if they do relapse. The connection between alcohol and other drug use and criminal behaviour (and vice versa) is a major focus.
Arts Therapy (TOP)
Expressive Arts Therapy identifies and addresses clients' blocked efforts to express their addiction and life story, that in turn have inhibited their recovery. It teaches self-sufficiency using creative ways of expression including stress reduction and relapse prevention. Arts therapy is an extremely rich vehicle for change with the potential to enhance the client's experience of personal insight, self-development and change.
These sessions are only taught by specialist staff, whose role is to be supportive, and who shift their stance in accord with what is perceived as most needed by the client, facilitating clients' self-exploration, verbalization and re-integration.
Arts Therapy Program Goals and Objectives:
The primary goal is to provide a safe, supportive environment where deep emotional change is possible after withdrawing from the effects of alcohol and other drugs.
Admission Criteria
Clients who enter this program have been detoxified for a minimum of 72 hours (depending on their drug/s of choice it may be longer) and medically competent to begin their 90-day treatment program as approved by our medical team.
Each session follows the following format:
Elective Workshops (TOP)
Elective Workshops/Recovery Skills Service
The Paëtzold Centre also provides an elective-based recovery skills service that is integrated into the main 90-day program. This service aims to address social and interpersonal skills barriers via regular psycho-educational forum sessions that address typical problem areas.
The key individual life skills modules are:
1-2-1 Counselling (TOP)
Arts Therapy participants may receive a weekly 1-2-1 counselling or arts therapy session. Between-session assignments can also be accommodated. This is designed to assist clients to fulfill their individual treatment plan. This process also allows clients to address current and unforeseen needs. Our approach to counselling features the following basic program tenets:
1-2-1 counselling sessions have the following format:
Aftercare Service (TOP)
The Paëtzold Centre is developing a New Direction-based Aftercare package that will soon be available to individuals in order to assist them in the transition they need to make upon graduation from the 90-day Rehabilitation Service. This is a relapse prevention-based service designed to assist participants in adjusting to the demands of ordinary life. Contact is individually negotiated.
The specialist Aftercare worker will:
