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Telehealth – Online Continuing Care

When you come to the end of your stay at residential rehab, going home can feel like a daunting experience. Even if you are excited to leave and looking forward to getting back to work or to your family, the first few months are likely to be a big adjustment.

Through our Continuing Care Programme, we offer a 24-week continuing care plan for people when they are at a vulnerable stage after residential rehab and need extra guidance to navigate their new lives.

This programme is provided by CATCH Recovery, our clinic in London. Sessions are delivered via Zoom in the comfort of your own home.

What Happens In Online Continuing Care

Our Continuing Care programme helps you implement the principles of recovery directly into your daily life:

• Implement the principles of recovery;
• Refine your relapse triggers;
• Learn alternative coping strategies for difficult situations,
• Manage negative moods, anger and depression;
• Explore opportunities to renew relationships; enhance social support network systems;
• Personalised relapse prevention;
• Contingency planning for emergencies;
• Moving forward, review your continuing care plan.

Package 1

This is the standard and minimum package. Some people ask why it is 16 sessions across 24 weeks. The answer is that many patients like to have regular weekly sessions at first, but after a certain time, they might change those sessions to fortnightly. It also helps to keep the cost of the package more affordable and spreads this support out over a longer time.

However, there is nothing to stop you 'topping-up' your treatment and booking additional sessions with your therapist as you progress through your continuing care.

Package 2

This more intensive package allows for more regular therapy time. There is also more scope to combine the services of a therapist and a recovery coach who can alternate and provide a different type of support at different times of the week.

This more intensive form of continuing care is highly valuable for people who are returning to challenging family or work situations, may not have easy access to AA / NA or are not intending to make regular use of mutual aid groups.

Group Therapy

You can sign up for group therapy during your continuing care planning meeting, but you can also sign-up for it at a later date when you've discussed it with your continuing care therapist and feel ready to make this commitment. The thing about group therapy is you need to make a commitment to attend regularly for the sake of forming a cohesive and supportive group.

Group therapy is currently available in person in London, or online as a tele-health group. We keep these groups small so that members get to know each other over the weeks and months. We recommend extending in blocks of 12 and joining the group for at least a year. It's an inexpensive and highly effective long-term treatment option, but we only offer it to patients who are engaged in individual therapy.

Additional Services

CATCH Recovery offers access to additional services upon request that are not included as part of your continuing care packages. These additional services may be provided by CATCH Recovery or might involve a referral to a range of external partners who we know and trust.

• Additional specialised therapy services such as trauma therapy, couples therapy etc.
• Psychiatrist appointments
• Sober retreats, workshops, and meet-ups.
• CATCH's services are provided via tele-health. However, CATCH does have group meeting rooms and therapy rooms located in central London.
  • For an additional fee of £30 per session, individual therapy services can be provided in person in central London.
• Sober Transport services
• Sober Companioning services
• Testing/laboratory investigations.

Evidence In Support Of Online CBT Therapy

Online CBT therapy has been proven to be as effective as in-person therapy which is why we offer it as part of our aftercare programme.

Findings in a study published in the Cureus journal of medical science, showed that ICBT (internet-based CBT) is effective in the treatment and management of various psychiatric disorders such as depression, GAD and social anxiety, panic disorders, phobias, addiction and substance use disorders, adjustment disorder, bipolar disorder, and OCD.

Our own results, from over ten years of delivering teletherapy at Castle Craig, have shown that online aftercare therapy is an effective way of helping patients make the transition from residential rehab back into their everyday lives, and we have supported some people for many months via teletherapy.

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Source: https://castlecraig.co.uk/addiction-treatment/aftercare

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