addiction services / outpatient

outpatient programs

Who: The outpatient treatment program addresses the needs of those who have a substance abuse problem, but who are still well integrated socially and thus do not require a residential setting.

Program offered in: Canada, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Chile, Uruguay

How: The program is based on individual or group counseling. It relies on an individualized approach tailored to the specific traits of each person, such as his learning capacity, his introspection abilities, the quality of his family and social relationships and his vocational competences or skills.

Why: The program targets the development of the person's autonomy, which means his ability to make healthy, responsible choices concerning the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, relative to his social and family relationships, his work or studies and to other social factors in his life.

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