with a trained professinal who can help
Phase II
Here the client first, "learns to learn". Then, furthers the earlier communication skills learned in the "Phase I TR's" and goes through "Objective Exercises" that bring the person into contact with the present and able to overcome living in the downfalls of their past or fanciful dreams of the future. These steps are outlined below:
A.) The Learning Improvement Course
Addicts and alcoholics are typically incapable of retaining information and applying that information to life. This step gives the client awareness to the barriers of study and a solution in overcoming them, so that they may retain, comprehend and apply knowledge. During this step we see clients not only become more able, but also more willing to learn.
B.) The Communications and Perceptions Course
Reality is basically falsified to the addict or alcoholic. The addict or alcoholic tends to fabricate their own reality and when the drugs wear off they feel their reality has been shattered. To reestablish the facade they must use again and again, perpetuating the cycle of addiction. During this step we teach the client to communicate and perceive their environment as it is. The client learns to be in control of themselves and the environment and helps them to establish an upgraded sense of responsibility by working on these (TR's) and "Objective Exercises" with another client in the same phase of the program.