Therapeutic community substance abuse program

Document Type:Business Plan

Subject Area:Management

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First, Long-Term residential Treatment usually provides care in non-hospital setting 24 hours a day. For example, Therapeutic community (TC) is a residential model for treatment which has a specified planned length of about 6 to 12 months. TC’s main focus is “re-socialization” of a person and the use of the entire community of the program inclusive of staff, residents and all social contexts. Additionally, is viewed in the context of psychological and social deficits while treatment focuses on personal responsibility and accountability development and having lived with social productivity. It uses highly structured and confrontational treatment because it has activities which teach residents how to identify destructive life patterns, self-concepts, and beliefs and change to more constructive and harmonious ways of interaction. Group counseling forms the main component in most of the outpatient programs.

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Patients with some mental disorders or medical problems can be treated in some outpatient programs for outpatients together with the drug disorders. Application of therapeutic communities’ research Many research studies on how to treat addiction classified different programs based on many modalities. Individual programs and treatment approach continually diversify and evolve creating a large variation between modern and traditional classifications of drug addiction treatment. However, the first stage of treatment is usually considered to be detoxification. Drug Abuse Reporting Program (DARP), the 1960s and 1970s indicated that about a third of therapeutic community was less than 20 years. Also, those teenage residents in the TC used opioids. The first priority of TCs is to create and upkeep a more holistic life; healthy life without drugs and identification of areas to change.

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This incorporates identification and change in negative areas such as emotional, psychological and social and corrects them before they lead to substance abuse. The perspective of treatment reveals that abusing drug becomes a disorder of the entire person; the drug is never the problem but consumer of the drug. Also, this project needs to be presented in time for the timely credit verification. However, the funding commissions will not have any input in the collection, interpretation, design or analysis of data. The funding bodies will be allowed to modify this project document according to the needs specified for the full funding. To ensure better and quality results, this project will take longer stay of about 18 months to make the success of TCs treatment realizable.

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The main challenge is uncertain about the time of getting the funds from financiers. t003 In this project will follow the following implementation phases: Basic principles which define the relationships among various TCs programs Output requirements: specify that the project should meet the needs of treating and controlling the drug abuse disorders Implementation priority: specify the most dangerous disorder should be dealt with immediately those with less effect. Data capture and collection: Respective health centers will be interviewed to get the basic feedback as the source of data. Implementation risks: Delay in funds needed to implement the project. Funding the Implementation program from local and national commissioners In conclusion, this project can be very productive if well implemented. Furthermore, it provides the best solution to those under the therapeutic community.

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