The Vital Role of Aftercare Planning in Treatment

Addiction is a chronic disease characterized by a compulsive need to use drugs or alcohol. It is a challenging disease without a cure. However, it is treatable, and clients can learn to make changes that help them discover and maintain their recovery. Addiction treatment is complex and unique for each client.

Treatment at Reviving You Recovery helps clients by discovering their root causes and building skills that they can take into their lives after treatment. An important part of treatment is aftercare planning, which aids clients by providing them with support and a plan that they can take back into their lives.

What Is Aftercare Planning?

Aftercare planning provides planning and support for clients after they complete their formal treatment program. It helps them to incorporate healthy coping skills, build community, and receive ongoing support as they make the necessary changes to successfully recover from addiction.

Addictive behaviors are a result of changes that occur in the brain due to substances and habitual behaviors. These habits are often a result of a need to cope with the challenges of life. For example, drugs and alcohol can become a way to cope with stress, anger, or other negative emotions.

Building healthy coping skills is an important part of treatment. However, it is also a piece of aftercare planning to help prevent relapse. During aftercare planning, clients learn how to use these new coping skills in their lives. By incorporating healthy coping skills, clients can care for their needs while successfully maintaining their recovery.

Community Building

Addiction and lack of community support commonly go hand in hand. This is due to the client’s likelihood of isolating from others. Fortunately, building a community can help individuals reconnect with others and find support that aids them in recovery.

However, learning to reconnect and build a community includes many challenges. Aftercare planning includes community building as one piece of recovery. It helps clients to understand the value of having a community and how to reconnect with others in recovery.

Ongoing Support

During treatment, clients have a support network of clinicians. Leaving treatment can make clients feel a loss of this structure and support. However, aftercare planning can help clients to have ongoing support. This can include support groups, contact with clinicians, and more. With ongoing support, clients have more success in coping with challenges and making changes to their lives.

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Aftercare Planning at Reviving You Recovery

Reviving You Recovery offers aftercare planning that helps clients establish healthy coping skills, manage stress and triggers, and engage in their recovery healthily.

90-Day Aftercare Planning and Goals

Clients work closely with the care team at Reviving You Recovery to create 90-day recovery goals for their aftercare. This includes learning how they will cope with challenges that have led them to drugs or alcohol in the past, building community, and reducing the risk of relapse.

The 90-day aftercare program ensures that clients have a plan and support after leaving treatment. They are not left alone to meet issues. Instead, they received continued support that will help them to feel connected to their care team and peers. As such, they can take each step forward after treatment, slowly transitioning themselves back into their lives without the risk of returning to old habits of addiction and substance abuse.

Comprehensive Planning

Addiction is a disease that uniquely impacts every client’s life. Therefore, every individual’s aftercare plan needs to meet these individual needs. Aftercare at Reviving You Recovery is comprehensive. The care team considers each client’s story, including their needs, root causes, and environment.

Comprehensive planning allows clients to receive an effective aftercare plan. Clients work through their issues with support and care that is offered in both individual and group settings. Ongoing support combined with long-term planning helps clients to meet their aftercare goals of a successful recovery.

Importance of Aftercare Planning

Recovery from addiction is a lifelong process. In treatment, clients learn about the root causes of their addiction. Additionally, they learn skills to manage challenges without resorting to drug or alcohol use. However, treatment is not the end of the road. These skills will need to be adjusted to fit into the lives of each individual. Integrating changes takes time, effort, and planning, as change does not occur on its own and takes a significant amount of effort to achieve.

Fortunately, aftercare planning can help. Aftercare planning aids clients in the difficult transitionary period that occurs after treatment. This is vital as the risk of relapse is high during this transitional period. With aftercare planning, clients have a plan to get through this difficult shift. Additionally, clients have essential support. This combination provides clients with a plan and helping hands when necessary.