What happens during a week at an inpatient behavioral addiction facility?

What happens during a week at an inpatient behavioral addiction facility?

Marc Kern (Addiction Expert, Director of Addiction Alternatives) gives expert video advice on: What is "outpatient care" for behavioral addiction?; What is outpatient treatment like for behavioral addiction?; How can recovering behavioral addicts reduce the risks in their environment? and more...

A week at a twelve step facility is very, very, very structured. When you walk into a twelve step facility, non-twelve step facility you are going to be handed a schedule and this schedule will be: eight o'clock in the morning or seven o'clock in the morning you wake up, seven thirty you make your bed, eight o'clock you have breakfast, eight thirty we have sort of a morning group, nine we have an educational group, ten o'clock we have this type of group or individual therapy, recreational therapy, lunch, dinner. It's a very, very structured week. There is very little room for little things other than following and going to services that they designed for you, that's one of the values of a inpatient facility is cause many people with addiction can not structure their day. In addition, it does set the stage to some degree of momentum when they get out of residential to have a basic structure how to formulate a day that is healthy and promotive of life enhancing activities.