Young adults face specific challenges that must be addressed in setting the stage for successful drug and alcohol treatment. The Arbor’s unique Continuum of Care offers a young adult substance abuse treatment program that provides the time and structure to face such challenges as those listed below.
Young adults are challenged with how they think about substance use. Often, they do not recognize the life-threatening nature of substance abuse. Many still carry thoughts of invincibility. Additionally, young adults frequently feel that family and friends are just blowing the situation out of proportion. This thinking often sets the stage for being a “Victim.” Many fear the idea of going the rest of their lives without being able to use something. Most report this thought to be completely overwhelming.
An additional challenge for many young adults is that they do not have significant motivators driving recovery efforts as with older clients. Older clients have motivating factors such as marital relationships, careers, financial security, children, and health that drive the desire to get sober. With younger clients, such motivators are not present or if present, do not matter as much. It is much more difficult to find something beyond themselves that is seen as a strong reason to get well.
Many young adults find it difficult to take full responsibility for their lives. Yet personal responsibility for one’s actions is absolutely needed to achieve sustained meaningful recovery. Many of our clients have had the experience of being unsuccessful at treatment followed by a rescue from parents. Such patterns have to be smashed. For both the parents and the young person, this transition is very difficult, painful, and time-consuming.
With such challenges and many others, a brief treatment experience is typically not enough for young adults. Longer-term treatment along with a gradual transition into independent living is needed to significantly increase a young person’s likelihood of long-term sobriety. Therefore, we frequently recommend that young adults participate in longer courses of treatment, which follow our Continuum. Our goal is to support the young adult as they fully stabilize in recovery.
We offer the full continuum of care and have one team that follows the person from inpatient care through sober living and beyond. This flow of information and consistent clinical supervision prevents disruptions of the therapeutic progress, use of manipulation, and/or gaming the system.
Men and women differ in how and why they abuse alcohol and drugs. A gender specific setting offers a safe and open environment for men and women to deal with the root causes of their addiction. All of Arbor’s rehab programs are gender specific and are available for both young men and women.
Our gender-specific programming is grounded in research, theory, and clinical practice. Clients to learn new skills and ways of thinking.
Specifically, this program is organized into four sections – Self, Relationships, Sexuality, and Spirituality. These are four areas that young adults consistently identify as being of great challenge.
This gender-specific, evidence-based curriculum is a critical component for young adults as they strive towards long-term recovery.
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