Treatment+Plans

__**Treatment for Alcoholism **__

There are many different kinds of treatment for persons with alcoholism. A person may do community care, residential care, 12 steps, the umbrellas program, withdrawal management programs and simply counselling.

The person entering treatment moves into the facility. They do a wide variety of work with social service workers and social workers. They will have group counselling, individual counselling, classes on nutrition, art, managing stress and much more. Most programs last 21 days, there are some facilities that have 3, 6 or even 9 month long treatment plains.
 * Residential Care **

A person can receive services while still living in her own environment. The program work in the same as residential care.
 * Community Care **

This is a program that is ran by the participants there is no social service worker here but it was thought important to be mentioned. It is admitting that they are powerless to the disease, believing in a higher power to restore, making the decision to turn their lives around, searching fearless moral inventory of themselves, admitting to their God and another human the nature of their wrongs, be ready for god to wash away their wrongs in their character, asking God to remove their shortcomings, making a list of people they have harmed and trying to make amends where possible, make personal inventory and admit were they were wronged themselves, pray for understanding and have a spiritual awakening.
 * 12 steps **

In 2002 Pinewood started a program offering support for women who are pregnant or parenting children 0-6 years of age, who have concerns regarding addictions- to alcohol or other substances. This program is centred around harm reduction. The women in this program are fast tracked into community and residential programs. The women also receive extra case management and advocacy as well as financial assistance for child care and transportation. The program stressed that each time a woman does not use is a healthier start for her baby and a way to help cope and not use is to talk in the counseling sessions provided. This is funded by The Ministry of Health and Long term Care. It is a collaborative with Simcoe OutReach Services, Addiction Services for York Region and Four Counties Addiction Services Team Inc. (FourCAST)
 * The Umbrellas program- Pinewood **

Withdrawal management is required for more than persons who abuse alcohol, many times it is used for more than one substance. Withdrawal management (formally known as detox) is the process of a person that is going through physical and psychological withdrawal symptoms. There is a circle of care at these facilities containing and not limited to; nurses, pharmacists, doctors, social workers, dieticians and recreational therapists. Within the social service working field we are responsible for facilitation of therapeutic groups as well as individual counselling.
 * Withdrawal Management **

Is a core device of most treatment plans. To paraphrase the OCSWSSW code of Ethics and Standards of practice- counselling is services provided within a professional relationship with a goal of helping the client in addressing issues in our client’s life, trying to help them find solutions by exploring their issues. We do this by many methods but we must stay in our scope of practice- this is not psychotherapy. There are endless possibilities of what clients will speak of. Most addicts come from a past of abuse- as a child or otherwise, mental health issues, posttraumatic stress disorders ect.
 * Counselling **