Genesis Rehabilitation, LLC (GRC) employees are thoroughly trained and understand that alcohol and/or substance abuse addiction is a disease that has the following characteristics: chronic, progressive, life threatening, relapsing, genetic disposition, intertwined with possible mental issues, and highly stigmatized. All staff is consistently in training that explains and demonstrates that addiction is a behavior has the following characteristics:
exists over a period of time
causes life wreckage
and is a progressive and chronic illness
GRC staff fully understands that that addiction is a disease and that the client requires professional help appropriate services reclaim their lives from alcohol and/or substance abuse and begin their path to recovery and treatment with full agency support. As stated above with addition and stages of change (the transtheoretical model of change) a client must travel to gain control over the addiction and their lives. the stages of change in addictive behavior are:
Precontemplation – may/may not be aware of change, avoids topics, knows little about it
Contemplation – considers increasing advantage and decreasing the disadvantage of change.
Preparation – commitment to change and creating a plan
Action – implementing the plan, revising the plan as needed, may relapse
Maintenance – continues to make changes, becomes more, habitual implement strategies to assist in the prevention of slips/relapses and
Relapse – Part of the change process, can be used as a learning tool via analysis