Outpatient programs are a key part of a treatment plan that addresses substance use disorders or mental illness. An outpatient program usually comes at the end of a journey that might start with detox and move to inpatient care.
But the outpatient setting is a level of care that allows you more freedom as you begin to adjust to life after intense work on your behavioral and mental health.
At Harmony Treatment and Wellness, we offer a range of treatment options that guide you from detox to outpatient care. Along the way, our caring and compassionate staff helps you find what you need to manage your recovery.
About Outpatient Programs (OP) for Addiction
Outpatient programs at Harmony Treatment and Wellness come at the end of your addiction treatment journey through several levels of care.
Our highest level of care is detox. From there, we transition you to our partial Hospitalization program (PHP), which lasts all day and has treatment services with a high level of intensity.
Next you transition down to an IOP, which has morning or evening group options lasting about three hours a day. Once you have completed an IOP, you can step down to an OP.
OPs are the final step before leaving drug rehab or outpatient mental health treatment. It bridges the gap between life in a rehab program and life in your daily routine.
Benefits of OPs for People in Addiction Recovery
When you first get into a PHP, you spend a lot of time at our facility learning about the nature of addiction and what the roots of your substance use disorder are. But you have yet to put those skills into practice.
When you’re in an OP, it’s the reverse. You will be spending most of your time in your daily routine and comparatively little time in treatment focusing on your mental and behavioral health.
So, our OP is a way for us to help you apply what you have learned. Some recovery goals you may focus on in outpatient programs include:
- Life skills training
- Relapse prevention skills
- Motivational training
- Employment support
As you go through stressors and triggers, you can bring your experience to group or individual sessions, celebrate what went well, and troubleshoot what didn’t. This gives you access to highly interactive and personal help during this last stage of drug rehab.
What Treatments Are Offered in Harmony Treatment and Wellness OPs?
OPs at Harmony Treatment and Wellness offer a host of mental and behavioral health services geared toward helping you pick up your life and feel confident in your recovery.
Outpatient services include a mix of continued behavioral and mental health services that you received in previous levels of care and practical services that help you address daily problems.
Attending evening groups for behavioral or mental health conditions can be one of the best things you do in recovery.
Whether it is group therapy or support groups, being a part of a group lets you share your story and hear from others. Among many topics, groups focus on:
- Accountability
- Support
- Recovery topics
- Changing habits
- Feeling understood by others
Along with group therapy, individual therapy begins early in the treatment process and continues to the very end. In a confidential and safe setting, a mental health care professional helps you uncover feelings and thoughts you have been hiding or holding onto.
Benefits of individual therapy include:
- Talking about situations/memories you haven’t talked about before
- Accepting structure
- Learning coping skills
- Lowering your risk of relapse
Family therapy is a form of group psychotherapy that aims to help you and your family heal together. Part of this process involves you and your family expressing to each other what you have gone through, so you can begin to identify feelings and heal together.
Education about substance abuse is one of the key components of outpatient care. Through education workshops at Harmony Treatment and Wellness, you learn about the nature of substance abuse and what it does to you physically and mentally.
Relapse prevention skills are a vital set of skills that navigate recovery outside of drug rehab and stop the relapse process. Identifying the stages of relapse and what to do in response are critical skills in maintaining recovery.
People who face substance use disorders sometimes also have to face a co-occurring mental health disorder. These disorders can include:
- Depression
- Anxiety disorders
- Bipolar disorder
- Schizophrenia
Dual diagnosis treatment, often through cognitive behavioral therapy, incorporates mental health programs and substance abuse treatment into therapy sessions and other programs. This way, you receive treatment for mental and behavioral health disorders at the same time.
The experience of trauma, particularly in childhood, can be detrimental to your mental health. Unresolved trauma can result in substance abuse as a way to cope with it. Trauma therapy helps you uncover what you experienced and find healthy ways to cope.
Trauma therapy includes helping you:
- Reduce flashbacks
- Replace negative emotions with positive ones
- Lower levels of anxiety
- Find healthy ways to self-soothe
Life skills training is a very practical course that helps you develop such skills as self-awareness, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence.
These skills have been shown to be effective in recovery, impacting how you deal with circumstances that could negatively affect your recovery
Motivational training can also be referred to as Motivational Enhancement Therapy and builds a set of skills that help you go beyond just having the knowledge that you need to change. It helps you build and maintain a motivation for change.
Case management services provide hands-on practical help in your transition from outpatient care to life in your daily routine. Rather than work with clinicians, you will work with social workers who will help you connect to the services you need beyond the program.
Harmony Treatment and Wellness understands that returning to your life after the program may involve dealing with legal issues. That is why we provide legal assistance to help you sort through issues that can easily feel overwhelming.
Who Is Eligible for an OP?
At Harmony Treatment and Wellness, we offer our OP to people who have gone through the previous continuum of care, including detox, a PHP, and an IOP.
Long-lasting sobriety starts with a strong foundation that can only be established through the more intensive levels of care.
At the same time, it can be difficult to go from those levels of care to daily life where you face temptations and triggers without any support at all.
So, our OPs aim to bridge the gap and give you the support you need while you re-engage with your daily routine. This way, you have compassionate clinicians, social workers, and peers in your corner to help you develop the skills you have for lasting sobriety.
Payment & Insurance Options for OPs
At Harmony Treatment and Wellness we understand that addiction affects everyone and that not everybody can afford treatment.
This is why we work with a wide range of insurance companies to provide you access to the treatment that you need.
Insurance companies that we regularly work with include:
- Humana
- BlueCross BlueShield
- Optum
- Magellan Health
- Cigna
- Aetna
- UnitedHealthcare
If you have questions about whether we accept your insurance coverage, give us a call and we can help you sort through the details.
Tips for Choosing an Outpatient Program
Choosing the right outpatient program can be overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. Looking for specific marks of quality can help you determine whether an outpatient program is right for you.
These quality marks include:
- Accreditation: Harmony Treatment and Wellness is accredited by the Joint Commission which means we are held to high standards of care and evaluated regularly to make sure we meet those standards.
- Treatment options: Quality rehab programs know that one size does not fit all the people who need treatment, so we offer a range of options to address a variety of needs.
- Personalized care: With many treatment options, Harmony Treatment and Wellness personalizes care to address your plan and what you need to achieve lasting sobriety.
- Aftercare: This program is essential to your success, which is why we offer continued support as you continue to navigate your new life.
- Insurance coverage: A quality treatment center will work with a variety of insurance companies to help you get the coverage you need. Accessibility is tied to quality.
Now is the perfect time to begin to heal!
Find Quality Care in an OP at Harmony Treatment and Wellness
You don’t need to keep facing a substance or alcohol use disorder alone. By going through a continuum of care, you build yourself a support system that will help you find lasting sobriety.
Harmony Treatment and Wellness can be that support system for you. Through caring professionals and highly skilled staff, we guide you through our levels of care as you build a solid foundation for recovery.
Our outpatient programs offer levels of support that are imminently practical. We offer legal assistance, employment support, continued therapeutic support, and more so you have everything you need to make recovery last.
Call us today to learn more about how we can help you or your loved one begin the journey to sobriety.
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Outpatient Program FAQs
The difference between these levels is best described in terms of time. A PHP includes a full day of classes, therapy, medication-assisted treatment, and more.
An IOP is a step down and less intense. It includes about three hours a day of groups plus other services while you begin to move back into a daily routine of work or school.
An OP steps down even further with group and individual therapy taking up an hour each week plus other services.
It depends on the program. PHP usually lasts around a month. An IOP can last up to three months. At the least intensive level, an OP can last the longest.
All these can depend somewhat on how severe your substance use disorder is and what you need to overcome it.
According to the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics (NCDAS), in 2023, outpatient programs ranged from $1,400 to $10,000 a month with the average cost being $5,700 a month
Sources
- American Psychological Association. “Motivational enhancement.” Retrieved from: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-21818-005. Accessed on October 24, 2024.
- National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics (NCDAS). “Average Cost of Drug Rehab.” Retrieved from: https://drugabusestatistics.org/cost-of-rehab/. Accessed on October 24, 2024.
- National Institute on Drug Abuse. “Treatment and Recovery.” Retrieved from: Treatment and Recovery | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (nih.gov) Accessed on October 24, 2024.
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