Partial-day treatment is a great option for many people in recovery. It is important to understand the basics of this program and determine if it is the best one to help you continue your recovery journey.
What Are the Benefits of Partial-Day Treatment?
Partial-day treatment has various benefits to help you further understand yourself and your needs moving forward in recovery. Each of these benefits can be very useful in maintaining long-term success in recovery.
#1 Develop Independence
When you are attending a residential treatment center, your schedule and responsibilities are fully laid out. You often receive assistance through these responsibilities. Partial-day treatment allows you to still have that support while incorporating aspects of independence into your everyday life. This can help you gain experience as you transition toward further independence. This experience can increase your confidence in your abilities to handle various responsibilities and life balance.
Having an opportunity to gain a level of independence can help you avoid being dependent on another individual. It can also help you maintain accountability for your actions moving forward. Moving into the outside adult world, you will likely find that independence is essential. This is especially true as you begin to manage the stressors of life without the use of substances. Partial-day treatment can increase your comfort in engaging in adult responsibilities. This confidence can help you stay on track to success.
#2 Receive Support
Attending a partial-day program is a great way to receive support through recovery. For example, partial-day programs give you the opportunity to attend groups and stay involved in the recovery community. You can receive support from peers and staff who are there to help you and celebrate your continued journey.
#3 Give Yourself Time to Heal
Many people want to get through treatment as fast as possible. After all, recovery from addiction can be strenuous and emotionally challenging. To quickly move past this state, some people attempt to rush through the treatment process. While different people spend different amounts of time in each stage of recovery, it is important for everyone not to go faster than they can handle. Patience, experience, and confidence are important for maintaining lifelong sobriety. Moreover, because of the emotional turmoil that may arise in recovery, it is essential to give yourself the time and space to heal.
Partial-day treatment is a great way to stay engaged in your recovery and solidify your progress. It can help you ensure you have gained the skills you will be using for sobriety maintenance in the outside world. Practice and patience are the keys to success. Allow yourself time to process each obstacle and learn the lessons that are presented to you throughout this journey.
#4 See the Potential Ahead of You
Engaging in a partial-day program is a great way to maintain focus on your recovery. It can be easy to dismiss the progress you have made when stepping into the world outside of treatment. As other tasks, such as finding a job, returning to school, and handling various adult responsibilities, begin to crowd your schedule, it can be easy to lose sight of recovery.
With partial-day treatment, you will engage in recovery practices often enough to keep your sobriety as your main focus. We are here to help you remember your end goals as you transition to life in the outside world.
#5 Solidify Your Skills
A partial-day program provides you with an opportunity to hone the skills you struggled with in treatment. While you have likely learned many skills to manage recovery, you may not have had enough opportunities to implement them in the outside world. This program allows you to work on these skills in real-life settings while still having the support and feedback of your treatment team. As stated before, these skills take practice to be able to use them in confidence. Solidify your skills and develop the comfort of implementing them before you step away from your treatment team.
What Can You Expect in Partial-Day Treatment?
Through our partial-day treatment program, you can expect to be in treatment five days a week for approximately five to six hours a day. While this is a serious commitment, it still allows you to go home and engage in other aspects of life. This program is designed to ensure you have plenty of access to care. It allows a slow, structured transition to the outside world, which can be highly important in adjusting to your newfound life of sobriety.
During this program, your case manager and therapist will help you determine the goals you wish to achieve. Think of what you want to discover about yourself and your recovery journey that will assist you in developing independence. We will create a plan catered to your needs and goals, and we will work alongside you to accomplish them. Having this source of support after a residential treatment program can help you establish a routine to follow using the skills you have developed.
Many stressors in outside life can put you at risk of falling back into the cycle of addiction. Fortunately, attending a partial-day program can help you transition into the adult world smoothly while maintaining your sobriety. Partial-day treatment gives you structure and support as you gain independence. It allows you to practice your recovery skills and gain confidence in putting them to use. In a partial-day program, you will define your goals so that you can achieve them with the assistance of our staff. If you have any questions regarding the structure of our partial-day program or need help determining if this program is the right fit for you, reach out to Dream Recovery at (949) 732-1960.