Life Skills Training Program
Drugs and alcohol can have a significant effect on those who use them. They can prevent them from learning critical life skills or cause the skills they already have to fall into disuse. In such cases, it’s vital to reach out to an addiction treatment center that offers a life skills training program. At Bayview Recovery, we’re proud to provide a rehab and rehab aftercare program that provides this treatment option. To learn more about this treatment, please contact Bayview Recovery today at 855.478.3650.
About the Life Skills Training Program at Bayview Recovery
An individual can fall prey to addiction if the challenges they face in their life exceed their ability to cope with them. As a result, they may begin to use drugs and alcohol to relieve their excess anger, stress, frustration, and fear. They often know of no other healthier means of dealing with it. Individuals may have strong skills in some areas of their life but weaker ones in others which still leave them vulnerable. Substances become the way they deal with these shortcomings. A life skills training program can change that.
Once an individual begins using drugs and alcohol on a regular basis, their dependency can start to erode their other coping skills, including their ability to provide themselves with adequate self-care. This can create a vicious cycle where people feel increasingly unable to handle the demands of everyday life, use more drugs, and create more problems with which they must deal. However, through the life skills program at Bayview Recovery, we provide life skills training as part of many of our treatment programs, including:
- Alcohol addiction treatment
- Heroin addiction treatment
- Cocaine addiction treatment
- Opioid addiction treatment
- Benzo addiction treatment
We’ve found that life skills training is one of the most reliable ways for individuals to enter long-term recovery.
Life Skills Crucial to Emotional and Social Health
A life skills training program focuses on teaching recovering clients how to handle recurring situations which can be challenging for anyone. By providing clients with ways to reduce their stress and build their confidence, Bayview Review can help them create the foundation for a lasting recovery. Some of the areas of focus in our Life Skills rehab program include:
The ability to connect with other people is essential to a fulfilling life, promotes a sense of peace, and also helps build confidence. However, many people often lose this ability because drugs have eroded their self-confidence and replaced it with shame. Relearning essential social practices, such as making introductions and participating in conversations, can help recovering individuals re-engage socially. In addition, this treatment creates opportunities for positive experiences, enhancing their self-worth and self-perception and mitigating their needs for drugs and alcohol.
A healthy home life can sustain an individual’s recovery. It removes stressors which they would otherwise encounter on a daily basis. When an individual suffers from addiction, caring for the home and one’s person can easily fall to the wayside, and it can create constant stress and anxiety, helping to sustain unhealthy habits. Regaining an appreciation for a healthy home is not only a form of self-care but also can enable individuals to focus on their wellbeing in other aspects of their life.
The life skills clients will learn at Bayview Recovery will help them sustain their sobriety. However, possibly none are more important than the skills they’ll learn to manage stress. For many individuals, their addiction problems probably began as a reaction to stress. Unsurprisingly, unmanaged stress can be one of the most significant contributors to relapse. Rehab can’t eliminate the stress you will encounter in everyday life, but it can help individuals handle that stress in healthy ways so that they won’t need drugs and alcohol to cope.
Anger, a natural and common emotion, is often about feeling a lack of control or frustration. Usually about things “not being right,” and life can present individuals with many triggers for anger on a daily basis. When anger becomes persistent or out-of-proportion, however, the need to control this emotion can often lead to drugs and alcohol as a way to seek relief. Because anger can be so destructive, having healthy, productive ways to manage this emotion is essential for anyone and especially for those in recovery.
Bayview Recovery gives its clients the opportunity to practice life skills — not just read or talk about them. And whatever form of treatment our clients have here will incorporate life skills training into their rehab experience to ensure they leave our campus prepared and confident.
How Improving Life Skills Can Help Prevent Relapse
The goal of rehab is long-term sobriety which is also achieved by preventing relapse. Ending your drug dependency is the first crucial step toward sobriety, but it is not the only step. To stay sober, you need to have the life skills that will allow you to safely transition back to your home life and face the challenges that are inevitable after rehab. Bayview Recovery can help you identify and practice skills so you can go home confidently.
However, even if you experience a relapse, you can continue your recovery with support. However, relapse is not the end of your recovery journey. In many cases, a relapse can point to critical areas where more skill-building is needed, allowing you to achieve a more complete and lasting recovery. Some of the skills which you will learn at Bayview Recovery include:
- Emphasis on fitness and nutrition
- Structuring a stable and predictable home environment
- Building independence through continuous employment and sound money-management
- Developing peer relationships and friendships
- Improving interpersonal skills
- Focusing on mental and physical health with the help of a professional-crafted and personalized plan
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Bayview Recovery can provide you with the skills you will need to end your chemical dependency and sustain your sobriety. You may not know where to begin, but you won’t have to go it alone. Our highly qualified counselors have experience helping individuals from diverse backgrounds get the treatment modalities that best match their needs. This allows you to get healthy quickly and enjoy lengthy sobriety.
Our treatment modalities include:
- Individual therapy
- Group therapy
- Trauma therapy
- Mindfulness, meditation, and yoga
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy
- Dialectical behavioral therapy
Further, Bayview Recovery’s comfortable setting takes away the stress and distraction that gets in the way of the recovery process. When you can relax and have all your needs met, you can recover more quickly.
Call Bayview Recovery today at 855.478.3650 to begin your journey to recovery in our life skills training program. You don’t have to continue to suffer from addiction. Bayview Recovery can help.
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Dave Cundiff, MD, MPH is an experienced leader in the field of Substance Use Disorder treatment. He works with patients suffering from Substance Use Disorder to evaluate their medication needs and prescribe treatments accordingly. In addition, he regularly participates in all-staff debriefing sessions involving peers, nurses, and other prescribers. He also reviews and advises on policies, procedures, and techniques for treating substance use disorder.
