Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Treatment Advocate

Drug rehabilitation centers are established to help those in struggle with drug addiction. They do not choose whom they help, who ever volunteers to submit themselves to the center are welcome to stay and undergo programs.

The centers are not only dependent on the knowledge of their staff and their programs but with the reciprocated help of the clients too. With out the patients helping them own self then the percentage of them getting better is only fifty per cent because the other fifty should be coming from them. The drug rehab programs are only effective when both parties, the client and the staff, are in coordination. The dedicated staffs may give all there full attention, majority of their time, and all of their heart but if the client is not eager to get well then chances are he won’t eventually.

On the other side, one of the staffs’ main objectives in helping the clients is to let them understand that the staffs are only advocate of their own process of treatment. Making them accept that they are ill so the patient will realize what he/she needs to do in order to gain back a healthy life. Substance abuse councilors very well understand of the client’s position and very patients in the process of helping out.

In this way, the client will learn to be independent and be aware of his/ her own limitation and status in wellness.

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