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Education on addictions. With the help of our specialists, the activities provide patients the understanding of the diseases caused by alcohol and drugs and their tendencies, the symptoms of relapse and ways of handling with it and avoiding it; patients also create joint and individual programmes for avoiding the relapse inside the community and outside it. 
1. Group psychotherapy and therapeutic sessions. With the help of a psychotherapist, psychologists, social workers and their assistants, group sessions teach patients to identify themselves with the disease, to observe the thinking, behaviour and feelings of oneself and others, to express them, to open up and to ask for assistance and support; patients learn to identify with other patients, to solve disagreements and to pay attention to the feelings of others. They acquire communication skills. They also learn assertive behaviour.
2. Individual psychotherapy and consultations. With the help of a psychotherapist, psychologists and other specialists, patients learn to identify their problems and look for solutions as well as to fulfill a personal programme of treatment and development. Patient’s motivation for further rehabilitation is formed and strengthened.
3. Individual work (autotherapy). During such work, patients carry out therapeutic tasks. They also learn introspection and acquisition of skills of self-analysis: they write a diary on the changes in personal thinking, behaviour, emotions, relationship with oneself and others. In such a way, patients learn to account for their physical and mental condition. The progress of autotherapy is supervised by the specialists of the rehabilitation centre.
4. Work therapy. Work therapy takes an important place in the rehabilitation programme of addicted persons and prepares a patient for a social life. Its key goal is to change a negative attitude towards work that an addicted person formed during the period of drug abuse, to help him/her acquire work skills and to get used to daily work. Thus, work makes up a great part of a patient’s time in the community. Work is a compulsory part of each patient’s rehabilitation programme. A person can only be exempted from work in the case of illness. The community ensures as many possibilities for work activities as possible (wood workshops, garden, greenhouse, care of animals, repair works of premises, etc). The work therapy is organised and supervised by social workers and their assistants.
5. Animal-assisted therapy (hypnotherapy). Animal-assisted therapy is a “one for one” method of treatment. An animal draws a person closer to it; it diverts attention from pathology. Animal-assisted therapy helps to acquire motor skills, concentrate attention; it performs the function of communication and realization of personal value. It also helps to eliminate fear and provides a motivation for treatment. An assistant of a social worker, who has the education of a veterinarian, organises therapeutic sessions with animals and teaches an adequate behaviour with them.
6. Therapeutic community observes the rules of a healthy family. It means that every patient lives in a safe environment that encourages emotional support and is encouraged to create such an environment by him/herself by observing the rules of a healthy communication. The specialists of the centre assist in developing this understanding.
7. Visiting hours.  The conditions are ensured not to lose contact with the social life, to learn sound communication with new people. Visiting hours are organised and supervised by the social workers of the centre and their assistants.
8. Therapeutic visits home (therapeutic holidays). Such visits teach a patient to integrate in a social life and to reestablish the relationship with his/her family members. The specialists assist in preparing the plan of such a visit.
9. Therapeutic camps. Patients learn to spend their time purposefully and soberly. Such camps are organised by a psychotherapist, psychologists, social workers and their assistants, who all participate in the camps.








 


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