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Daily Group Schedule & Descriptions

Time	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
9:30 - 10:10 a.m.	Check-in	Check-in	Check-in	Check-in	Check-in
10:10 - 10:50 a.m.	Relapse Prevention	Psychotherapy Group	Relapse Prevention	Psychotherapy Group	Relapse Prevention
10:50  - 11:40a.m.	Psychotherapy Group	Psychotherapy Group	Psychotherapy Group	Psychotherapy Group	Psychotherapy Group
11:40 a.m. - Noon	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
Noon - 12:30 p.m.	Cognitive Therapy	Grief/Loss Group	Cognitive Therapy	Managing Change	Cognitive Therapy
12:30 pm. - 1:15 p.m.	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.	Affect Management	Self Esteem	Affect Management	Horticultural Therapy	Music Therapy

GROUP DESCRIPTIONS

RELAPSE PREVENTION: The goals for this group are to provide increased opportunities for self-awareness, to teach the patient to recognize signs and symptoms of relapse, and to improve the patient’s self-mastery in the prevention of relapse. Patients are encouraged to disclose their personal experiences with relapse. Topics include life-style habits that decrease the possibility of relapse, medication and drug issues, nutrition, health, spirituality, and humor. A review of treatment plans, goals, and objectives will also be covered in an effort to maintain focus and to encourage accountability in maintaining positive changes.

PSYCHOTHERAPY: This group provides an opportunity for patients to identify, process, and resolve the specific problems leading to the need for treatment; to learn to ask for, accept, and provide feedback; to develop insights into maladaptive behavior and thought patterns, and processes that maintain them; and to improve interpersonal skills and explore familial and social roles. Patients will be encouraged to express feelings related to group processes and current and past life events, and to focus on achieving personal goals and treatment plan goals.

COGNITIVE THERAPY: In this group, patients will learn to identify distorted thoughts that negatively influence behavior, values, and self-perception. They will explore ways to challenge and correct distorted thoughts, self-defeating beliefs, and negative self-talk. The group will also include training in assertiveness skills and stress management techniques.

GRIEF AND LOSS: This group provides a forum for patients to explore all manner of grief, loss, and bereavement; to express feelings related to losses; to share experiences of grief and resolving grief; to review the stages of grief; and to develop improved methods for coping with loss.

AFFECT MANAGEMENT: The focus of this group is to teach patients to recognize the signs and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and panic, and strong emotions such as anger; to explore patients’ current methods of coping with and expressing these emotions; and to learn coping skills for expressing strong emotion and managing symptoms more appropriately.

SELF-ESTEEM: Self-esteem group will help patients to explore current personal, familial, and cultural expectations and judgements of themselves, and to build self-esteem by adjusting values to match patients’ current circumstances.

MUSIC THERAPY:  In this group, patients write, play, sing and move to music under the leadership of a Music Therapist.  Music used during this treatment is determined by group preference.  Patients are encouraged to actively participate in creative exploration.  Through these activities, patients discover how they can use music to promote general well being, reverse negative thinking, and establish effective coping mechanisms in their own lives.

HORTICULTURAL THERAPY:  In this group, patients engage in gardening and horticultural related tasks, facilitated by a registered horticultural therapist.  Through success oriented gardening tasks, patients explore techniques for the reduction of stress, anxiety and depression.  Reintegration into past leisure interests and adaptation of current interests are also discussed.  No prior gardening experience is necessary to benefit from this group.