Our Treatment Programme
We offer a first-rate, integrated recovery programme to bring long-term healing to people suffering from addiction – and associated conditions such as trauma, depression and anxiety. Depending on need, our residential programmes run from 30 to 90 days.
Our Addictions Treatment Programme is modelled after some of the better centre's in Unites States of America.
We also offer one-to-one counselling and psychotherapy to individuals and couples on a weekly, non-residential basis.
Medically Supervised Detoxification is part of the recovery process for many of our clients with drug and alcohol addictions. Because each person experiences detox differently, we pay close attention to our clients' individual needs. Our doctor assesses each client based on medical history, drug of choice, length of use and state of mind, in order to determine the most appropriate care. Our doctor continues to be available after detox, as needed.
Group Therapy, underpinned by a 12-Step programme, forms a big part of the treatment we deliver at the Camino Recovery Centre. Group therapy enables more issues to be covered in a short space of time. The 12-Step programme is a set of principles outlining a course of action for recovery from addiction, compulsion or other behavioural problems. Statistically, this approach to group therapy has proved to be the most effective for the largest number of people. Moreover, it helps to provide a network of support for people to maintain abstinence from their drugs of choice.
We also use a range of therapeutic interventions within the group process, including Gestalt, expressive anger work, grief and trauma work, art therapy, and psycho-drama.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an intensive treatment that has had proven success in the field of trauma. The procedure helps “unlock” traumatic memories, enabling clients to process distressing thoughts and feelings relatively quickly. The technique is now regularly employed in the UK to treat Veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) uses horses to help people gain clarity about boundaries and relationships. EAP has shown over the years that it can successfully help treat addictions in clients by providing a powerful and moving means of resolving trauma. EAP does not involve riding a horse. This form of psychotherapy has been used in established US treatment centres for the past 20 years. It is also used in Israel for the treatment of War Veterans.
Family process is central to our treatment here. Families often believe that the only person among them with a "problem" is the addict. But we treat addiction as an illness that affects the whole family. The truth is that an addict's behaviour can have a huge impact on loved ones, dragging them into dysfunction too. We therefore run family programmes on a monthly basis; attendance is a prerequisite for clients and strongly recommended for family members.
The most effective treatment centres in the world have strong family programmes. Studies from these treatment centres show that clients who have experienced an effective family process in treatment had a 65% higher probability of getting and staying well, as opposed to those with no family therapy attached to treatment.
Our Healing the Family Workshops takes place on monthly basis in UK and Spain.
The next scheduled dates in:
Spain are 19th - 22nd January, 2012 (dates are subject to change depending on number of participants) Please call 0034 952 784 228 for further details.
For UK please check further details on dates: www.donlavender.com or www.renewalcentre.co.uk