12 Week Recovery Syllabus
This 12 week recovery syllabus provides topics to include mental health related education, symptom management and the development and implementation of healthy coping skills to manage both disorders effectively. The treatment team of Genesis Recovery Services, LLC is knowledgeable in assisting individuals learn how to live and speak the language of recovery.
Week One: What is the Connection Between Substance Use and Mental Health?
- Understanding the disease of addition & recovery
- Understanding post-acute withdrawals 1 & 2
- HIV/AIDS, healthy sexual practices & recovery
- Pregnancy, drug, alcohol use & recovery
- New beginnings & recovery
- Talking circle & weekly process
Week Two: Understanding Depression & Substance Abuse
- Understanding co-occuring disorders & recovery
- Mental illness & recovery
- Self-image & recovery
- Developing empathy & recovery
- Self-care & gratitude & recovery
- Talking circle & weekly process
- Understanding depression & substance abuse
Week Three: Principles of Treatment & Co-Occuring
- Identifying & overcoming triggers & recovery
- Understanding core beliefs & recovery
- Understanding behaviors & addition & recovery
- Criminality, addiction & recovery
- Criminal & addictive thinking patterns & recovery
- Criminal & addictive attitudes & recovery
- Talking circle & weekly process
Week Four: Bi-Polar Disorders & Substance Abuse
- Impulsivity & recovery
- Making decisions & recovery
- Relapse prevention & recovery
- Understanding feelings & recovery
- Understanding chronic emotional pain & recovery
- Understanding stress management & recovery
- Understanding stigma as it relates to co-occuring disorders
- Talking circle & weekly process
Week 5: Anxiety Disorders & Substance Abuse
- Understanding guilt & shame & recovery
- Understanding grief & loss & recovery
- Understanding forgiveness & recovery
- Understanding self-forgiveness & co-occuring disorders
- Talking circle & weekly process
Week 6: Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder and Substance Abuse
- Anger management & recovery
- Conflict resolution skills & recovery
- Communication skills & recovery
- Letting go of control & recovery
- Bullying & recovery
- Self-Discipline & recovery
- Talking circle & weekly process
Week 7: Substance Abuse Motives and Consequences
- Change readiness & recovery
- Motivational Crisis & recovery
- Building healthy support systems & recovery
- Intimacy & recovery
- Self-esteem & recovery
- Values & recovery
- Acceptance & denial & recovery
- Talking circle & weekly process
Week 8: Personality Disorders & Co-Occuring Disorders
- Understanding peer pressure & recovery
- Trust, honesty & identifying personal strengths & recovery
- Understanding healthy and unhealthy boundaries & recovery
- Respect for self & others & recovery
- Developing autonomy & recovery
- Talking circle & weekly process
Week 9: Relapse Prevention & Co-Occuring Disorders
- Family roles in addiction & recovery
- Parenting and understanding family dynamics & recovery
- Addictive relationships & recovery
- Co-dependency & recovery
- Understanding resiliency & recovery
- Talking circle & weekly process
Week 10: Understanding Self-Injurious Behaviors & Co-Occuring Disorders
- Understanding domestic violence & recovery
- Developing healthy relationships & recovery
- How to love oneself & recovery
- Understanding energy drinks & recovery
- Talking circle & weekly process
Week 11: Medications & Co-Occuring Disorders
- Understanding spirituality & recovery
- Understanding journaling & recovery
- Mindfulness & recovery
- Understanding being a super victim & recovery
- Understanding the adverse childhood experience (ACE) & recovery
- Talking circle & weekly process
Week 12: Ways to Cope with & Co-Occuring Disorders
- Understanding chronic pain & recovery
- Understanding sleep deprivation & recovery
- Understanding money management & recovery
- Smoking & recovery
- Developing patience & recovery
- Understanding our personality types & recovery
- Celebrating the gifts of life & recovery
- Developing and maintaining healthy rituals & recovery
- Time management & recovery
- Cross addiction, co-occuring & recovery
- Understanding trauma & co-occuring disorders