| Christian rehab often club their treatment programs | | | | locate as well as treat issues which might otherwise |
| with a holistic approach as a part of their treatment | | | | go undetected, thereby contributing to lapses. |
| process. The professional team of experts meets | | | | While the physical conditions of the patient are |
| and discusses the requirements of each resident to | | | | examined, the physiological components of their |
| address their spiritual, emotional, mental as well as | | | | condition are also focused upon and some of these |
| physical requirements. The professionals of the | | | | incorporate: allergy tests, hair analysis, urine and blood |
| Christian rehab program seek to deal with the internal | | | | tests, and even nutritional evaluation. One of the |
| psychological developments that are taking place | | | | important benefits of the holistic approach that is |
| within the addicted individual. Other than that, they | | | | used in Christian rehabilitation is that it allows the |
| are taught to handle the crucial aspects of their | | | | experts to make use of natural methods and even |
| personal history and even engage in a healthy | | | | conventional medical interventions for restoring the |
| relationship with others and actively pursue a life of | | | | balance of the body. The mental aspect of the |
| fulfillment. Every aspect of the individual is scrutinized | | | | person is also taken into consideration and the |
| and taken into consideration in a variation of | | | | techniques that are used in this process include: |
| ambiences such as the following: | | | | Psychodynamics: This evaluates the dependence of |
| - Marital and family based counseling | | | | the different aspects of the patient's personality and |
| - Group dynamics | | | | the overall process of development by focusing on |
| - Individual counseling | | | | the needs that were accomplished and the ones that |
| - Lifestyle coaching | | | | were not. In addition to that, the developmental |
| - Spiritual direction | | | | crises of the problem are also studied. |
| - Body work | | | | Cognitive and Behavioral Methods: Here, the |
| - Psychological education | | | | relationship between thoughts and actions is studied |
| - Participation in a healing environment | | | | along with the learning beliefs, rules and attitudes of |
| What are the Important Aspects of the Holistic | | | | the person to help their functional evaluations. |
| Approach in Christian Rehab? | | | | Humanistic and Spiritual Evaluation: This takes into |
| In order to undergo an examination of the important | | | | consideration the basic goodness of human beings |
| physical aspects, the specialists of the Christian rehab | | | | (the Theory of Humanism) and their desire to |
| center need to assess the physical condition of the | | | | achieve complete functionality through self |
| patient. This helps reveal the medical and structural | | | | actualization and reference with God. |
| concerns, if any. Current medical state are addressed | | | | Transpersonal and Systemic Approach: This helps in |
| and any kind of imbalances, misalignments or | | | | transcending the ego centrism of a person and their |
| discrepancies, if any, are identified since these may | | | | response as social beings. In fact, the person is not |
| interfere with the addictive process or concurrent | | | | an isolated entity but a part of the larger |
| disorders. The energy systems and mechanisms of | | | | compendium. |
| the body are studied based on the principles of | | | | Thus, the Christian way of treatment aims at making |
| traditional medical science, Ayurveda and even the | | | | the addict attain complete sobriety. This is why this |
| Chinese medicinal approaches. With the help of the | | | | addiction rehab approach is being preferred by most |
| study, the well trained therapeutic team is allowed to | | | | addicts and their families. |