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
LCSW, BCD, Program Director at:
(858) 279-6721
Domestic Violence Treatment Program
This is a 52-week cognitive
therapy based, psycho-educational, Court and CPS 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.
The cost is $25 per session.
For initial appointment and
more information please call :
Barbara Pizzarello
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.