Practical Approach

Oftentimes, substance abuse rehab centers restricts their clients from performing normal and necessary daily functions, including conducting business, interacting with family members and friends, and limiting contact with the outside world while in residential addiction treatment.

At 12 Palms Recovery Center, the dedicated staff of counselors and therapists believes in a practical approach to recovery. Drug rehab and alcohol rehab is a serious undertaking, however it doesn’t mean that life in the outside world has to stop while in recovery. As one of the leading rehab centers in Florida, 12 Palms Recovery Center believes that each client should continue interacting with family members, friends and business associates while in recovery. In allowing contact, it gives the counselors and therapists the opportunity to see how their clients process interaction when using the tools and resources offered to them in recovery.

 
Many drug addiction rehabs across the country also severely limit contact between males and females while in recovery, often separating the two in meetings, group sessions and other addiction treatment options. At 12 Palms Recovery Center, their practical approach to recovery encourages interaction between males and females, so that counselors and therapists can properly assess how clients process innocent interactions in recovery.

While an alcohol rehab in New York or a drug rehab in New Jersey may operate on the belief that clients should be more or less quarantined while in recovery, 12 Palms Recovery Center believes that a more practical approach to recovery involves clients who live their lives with no limitations while in recovery as well. Addicts and alcoholics have spent years isolating themselves from real life by medicating themselves through their drug of choice, in the process trying to forget about dealing with real life situations. As part of its substance abuse rehabilitation program, 12 Palms Recovery Center counselors and therapists encourage their clients to immerse themselves in real life. With attendance at regular AA meetings outside of the facilities, engaging in daily extracurricular activities and with no limitations concerning the use of cellphones and laptop computers, 12 Palms Recovery Center staff members can assess how each client reacts to normal everyday life occurrences while in recovery. Through daily one-on-one counseling sessions and group therapy sessions, clients can share their experiences with the outside world, talk about their feelings and emotions in their daily lives without drugs or alcohol in their systems, and talk about coping mechanisms that they can use other than drugs and alcohol when dealing with potentially stressful life situations.

12 Palms Recovery Center believes that drug treatment and alcoholism treatment involves allowing their clients to experience life while in recovery, not just being taught how in a classroom environment. By allowing its clients to talk with family members and friends via cellphone, by allowing them to conduct business and personal transactions via their laptop computers, by encouraging interaction between males and females, and by allowing them to enjoy life through various extracurricular activities, 12 Palms Recovery Center gives each client the opportunity to truly experience a life in recovery right from the very start.

Drug rehab treatment is serious business, and 12 Palms Recovery Center firmly believes that by shielding its clients from the outside world, they are doing a disservice to their clients. The practical approach to recovery allows each client at 12 Palms Recovery Center to learn how to live on a daily basis by using the tools and resources of recovery provided to them, and putting them to use in normal everyday life situations. As a private drug rehab facility, 12 Palms Recovery does not believe its clients should be sheltered in private in order to learn about recovery.

Much like Alcoholics Anonymous, 12 Palms Recovery Center believes that its addiction treatment programs should help clients work back into the mainstream of society, and only through experiencing life with the right tools and resources can its clients best achieve that.

The practical approach is a major component of the 12 Palms Difference, and through allowing its clients to experience life without restrictions or limitations, 12 Palms Recovery Center can help make a difference.