Intensive Outpatient Therapy for Adolescents

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Have small group sessions of 12 or less

• Are offered over the course of at least ten (10) weeks for six (6) hours per week.  
• May vary based on the needs of the adolescents being served.  
• Will consist of about nine (9) total hours of group therapy per week.  

Groups may focus on the following topics:  

• Psychoeducation  
• skills-development
• drug or alcohol refusal training  
• relapse prevention techniques
• assertiveness training  
• stress management
• support groups (e.g., process-oriented recovery groups),  
• single-interest groups (can include gender issues, sexual orientation,  criminal offense, and histories of physical and sexual abuse) family or couples groups

• Discover, label, and learn to recognize feeling states
• Initiate a foundation for sober living 
• Identify primary emotional "triggers"  
• Develop a wide variety of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral coping skills  
• Learn to employ and actively use appropriate coping skills in daily life
• Seek out possible relapse warning signs  
• Construct a supportive recovery environment
• Create a personalized and applicable Relapse Prevention Plan
• Utilize and assist other group members constructively in the treatment experience