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Basic Idea and the Content of the Project
„The philosophy of the centre´s work is based on the freedom of everyone of us to choose own way which he/she decided to live. In the case we did not decide to change our lifestyle on the base of our experience, nobody and nothing could discourage us from the chosen way of life.“
The Aftercare Centre (AC C) is an outpatient institution that has its stable position in the system of addict´s care. Its aim is to work with clients, to make their high-risk customs adopted in their previous life be the the past and to process and positively use their past for the future existence.
Its services are offered to people who were in their previous life affected by addictive substances. It provides outpatient treatment and aftercare. We also provide programs for families or partners of past or present users of narcotic drugs.
The Way of Work of the AC C
All advisory activities of AC C are fitted to individual needs of clients, they are particularly aimed to reach the highest possible effectivity. They can be divided into:
- Individual counselling
Individual contact is basic – and in the beginning of cooperation with the client also the only – used method of AC C work. The client with the help of therapist attempts to understand his/her problems and develops own options to face them.
Motivational training
This is individual talk, during which therapist helps the client to think over the change of risky way behaviour and supports his/her steps to change the lifestyle. It is determined to the clients, who only weighs up the change of their lifestyle.
Long-term individual therapy
It is based on gradual building of confidence between the client and the therapist. With developing of the therapeutic relation the background is being build, in which the client can safely investigate his/her reasons, that had led him/her to risky behaviour, the client can work out problems that are now accompanying the change and search new options of self-fulfilment.
Family counselling contact
It is aimed at working with parents, partners and relatives of users or with the whole family. Typical reason to make contact is such a situation, when parents have found that their child is using drugs and they want to know what to do now. Another reason can be lasting tension, which is apart from other things a consequence of past drug using. From our point of view this work is equaly important as is counselling for past drug users: relatives are on one side hit by risky behaviour of users (and often they currently feel much worse than the user him/herself) and they also in some cases take directly or indirectly part in such behaviour.
- Group counselling:
In the institution are at the moment working these groups:
Theme group is aimed at acquiring and fastenning needed social skills. In model situations clients can try their skills in the form of games and exercises and they can learn more precisely perceive their reactions and modify them.
Closed Growth group work with emergent relations inside the group and shows the possibilities how to show and vindicate own feelings and attitudes. Reciprocal reactions of the members of the group help the clients to develep self-reflections, to strenghten self-evaluation and competencies, they lead the clients to learn own relation patterns of behaviour and to the change of them.
Substitution group is determined to clients who at the same time visit some other substitution program, most often the Methadone Substitution Centre Drop In. The Group should help them to work with present problems, to develop social skills and to fix the decision to change the lifestyle.
In Parents group meet people in similar situation of life and they help one another sharing experience and offering other views to solve the problem. It is apparently the most useful way how to change attitudes to needed direction and how to overcome the great burden of drug problem in family.
- Rehabilitation stays
These weekend or one week stays follow up the work of each group – including methadone and parents – and they are determined to their members. They are aimed to intense work on oneself, ability to perceive own feelings and to tolerate feelings and needs of others.
- Social work
It is based on actual needs of the client, in our practice it is mainly concentrated on help to find a suitable work.
- Other activities of ours
We offer educational stays for university students and for people working in helping professions. We organize expert seminars for teachers, governmental officers and workers in helping professions who are interested in problematics of non-alcohol drugs addictions.
Program Phases
Program phases for past drug users
| 1st phase |
1-3 months |
Individual contact |
twice a week/1,5 hour |
| 2nd phase |
3 months |
Theme group
Individual contact |
1-2 times a week/45 min-1,5 hour
once a week/1,5 hour |
| 6 months |
6 měsíců |
Growth group
Supporting individual
contact
Rehabilitation stay |
once a week/1,5 hour
once a week/45 min
2-3 times weekend, once week |
Program phases for family members
| 1st phase |
1-2 months |
Individual information and supporting contact |
1-2 times a week/45min-1,5 hour |
| 2nd phase |
3 months |
Parents group
Rehabilitation stay
Individual contact |
once a week/1,5 hour
weekend once in 3 months
1-2 times/45min-1,5 hour
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How to use our services
The best is to telephone the given telephone number to settle the day and time of the first meeting with the therapist, where will be enough time to agree on actual form of cooperation. You can also write us on address cnp@dropin.cz.
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