Anger Management Program
This 14-week court approved
anger management group therapy addresses the following issues:
- Anger Management
- Cognitive Distortions
- Healthy Relationship
- Constructive Communication
- Healthy Boundary Setting
- Power and Control Issues
This program meets Wednesdays
from 7-8:30 p.m.
The cost is $25 per session.
For initial appointment and
more information please call :
Barbara Pizzarello
Barrett LCSW, BCD, Executive Director at:
(858) 279-0220.
A Substance Abuse Program (ASAP)
ASAP offers two separate
program tracks:
- Domestic and Family Violence Emphasis
- Traditional Outpatient Treatment Program
Domestic and Family Violence Emphasis:
This 52 week program
addresses chemical dependency and family violence in a comprehensive
curriculum. In an effort to address a large gap between those two fields of
treatment, ASAP addresses both in this unique program.
Traditional Outpatient Treatment Track:
This 52-week program
utilizes the traditional approaches to chemical dependency treatment. Drug and
alcohol education, relapse prevention, stress reduction and goal setting are
the primary focus of this track.
Each of the various Comprehensive 52 week programs
include:
Intake and Assessment
- Health screening Questionnaire
- Psychosocial Assessment
- Alcohol/Drug Assessment
Individual Counseling
- Identify primary problems related to
alcohol/drug abuse
- Clients meets with counselor twice a month
- Review and evaluation of client’s progress
toward treatment goals
- Appropriate referrals to community resources as
determined throughout the program
Group Counseling
- Psycho-educational groups meet once a week in a
safe, clinical, non-judgmental and confidential environment.
- The 52 week Curriculum is continually tailored
and tied into each group member’s needs.
- ASAP group leaders are also experienced Court
approved Domestic Violence group facilitators.
Discharge/Exit Planning
- During the last 10 group sessions, the client
develops long term goals for relapse prevention and for continued
successful recovery.
- Individual sessions assist client in developing
appropriate exit plan.
Family Violence Emphasis Group Topics Include:
Substance Abuse and Family Violence (40 1.5 hour
groups) including:
Substance Abuse/Family
Violence overview: -Ten 1.5 hour groups
Substance Abuse and Domestic
Violence:-Ten 1.5 hour groups
Substance Abuse and Child
Abuse:-Ten 1.5 hour groups
Recovery Planning/Goal
Setting:-Ten 1.5 hour groups
Traditional Substance Abuse Treatment Group Topics
include:
Drug and alcohol outpatient program group topics (40
1.5 hour groups)
Drug and alcohol education:-Ten 1.5 hour groups
Relapse prevention:-Ten 1.5 hour groups
Stress reduction and
assertiveness training - Ten 1.5 hour groups
Recovery planning and goal
setting:-Ten 1.5 hour groups
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- ASAP
out-patient program requires complete abstinence from alcohol and illicit
drugs.
- ASAP
conducts on-site state of the art alcohol/drug screening and comprehensive
laboratory drug testing.
- ASAP
outpatient program provides services at fees that are affordable.
Change for Life
A 26-week Morality and Empathy-Based Cognitive
Therapy Program.
This program is designed for
people who have anger management issues and who want to change their lives for
the good. This also is tailored for the person who has been convicted of a
first time violent crime and who is in the probation or parole
system.
The Change for Life program includes:
- Anger Management
- Assertiveness Training
- Empathy-Building
- Defeating Self-Destructive Behaviors
- Connecting with Emotions
- Dealing with Criticism
- Stress Reduction
- Recognizing Abuse
- Time Management
- Socialization Skills
- Power and Control Issues
- Values Clarification
- Positive Attitude-Building
- Cognitive Behavior Change
- Self Esteem
Building
- Constructive Communication
- Relaxation Techniques
- Respect for Self and Others
- Forgiveness
- Role Playing
The Change for Life Program will give you the tools to make the
necessary changes and look at new ways of:
- Thinking
- Acting
- Feeling
- Growing
- Succeeding
A Helping Hand Counseling is
offering you the opportunity to change the problem areas in your life and turn
them around so that you can have….
- A better life
- A fuller life
- A more satisfying life
….. A Changed Life.
A Helping Hand Counseling’s Change for Life program may administer
and monitor:
- Beck
Depression
- Inventory
(BDI)
- Beck
Anxiety Index (BAI)
- SARA
- Values
Inventory
- Enneagram
- Forgiveness
Inventory
The program will use some or
all of the
above named measures and will conduct research to evaluate the level of change due
to the intensive intervention in this program.
The intake assessment will
include a complete evaluation to assess the need for possible medical and/or
psychiatric intervention.
A Helping Hand Counseling
will make ongoing individual therapy available to Change for Life participants if indicated.
Assistance will be available
for clients who may have difficulty reading the material.
Our goal is to assist
clients in obtaining positive life skills that will allow them to reintegrate
and become productive members of society.
For initial appointment and
more information please call :
Barbara Pizzarello
Barrett LCSW, BCD, Program Director at:
(858) 279-0220
Domestic Violence Treatment Program
This is a 52-week cognitive
therapy based court approved Domestic Violence Treatment Program. Groups are scheduled
Tuesday through Saturday, with day and evening groups available.
Therapy available in the
following languages:
English – Male Groups
English - Female Groups
Spanish – Male Groups
Individual Counseling is by
appointment.
The cost is $25 per session.
For initial appointment and
more information please call :
Barbara Pizzarello
Barrett LCSW, BCD, Program Director at:
(858) 279-0220
Communication Skills Building
Collaboration with Probation
Relapse Prevention
Quarterly progress reports to Probation, the
Court of Parole
About Sex Offender
Treatment:
A Helping Hand Counseling’s
Sex Offender Treatment Program is cognitive therapy based. We are committed to
working collaboratively with Probation, the Courts, the Polygraph Examiner,
Victim's Advocates, and other professional
agencies to ensure the highest level of community safety available. The Sex
Offender Treatment Program holds to the Adult Treatment Standards adopted by
the County of San Diego Department of Probation in June 2003. This Containment/ Collaboration Model is used
in order to increase community safety and to reduce and monitor the various stressors which
may lead to recidivism. Each person, whether voluntarily in the program or
referred by the Courts, Probation or Parole, is expected to abide by the same
standards.
Our ongoing commitment to
the team-approach with the Department of Probation, Psychiatrists, Substance
Abuse Programs, and Polygraph Examiners allow us to provide state of the art
treatment for those suffering from sexual addictions, as well as those defendants
convicted of a sexual offense.
Each client will attend
weekly psychoeducational group therapy with the focus
on restructuring their thinking patterns and on learning-appropriate behaviors.
