When addiction takes hold of your life, all aspects of daily living can be negatively impacted. Moreover, you may find that holding down a job or experiencing a happy marriage is nearly impossible. However, life skills training at a rehabilitation center can provide you with essential tools to help restore normalcy to your daily routine.
What are Life Skills?
Those of us who have not experienced an addiction often take life skills for granted. However, these are the basic functions we all go through each day without really thinking about it. Life skills can involve going to work, cleaning our home, preparing meals, and many other essential tasks in daily life.
Why is Life Skills Training a Part of Rehab?
Even the most basic life skills can be heavily influenced by addiction. In fact, those who remain in the grip of addiction may find it impossible to maintain any kind of normal routine to their day. They may struggle to maintain proper employment, for example. Even preparing healthy meals can seem completely overwhelming. This is why rehab centers place so much importance on teaching these life skills to others.
Common Types of Life Skills Training
Drug rehabilitation can include learning any of the following life skills. Remember, your specific training will be unique to fit your needs:
Trust and Relationship Building
All types of relationships can be affected by drug or alcohol abuse. Furthermore, trust and communication can suffer when addiction issues are present. As a result, a person must learn the skills necessary to rebuild these vital elements of healthy relationships.
Living Independently
Living alone involves the daily performance of many seemingly mundane tasks. Grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, and similar functions are important for successful independent living. In addition, many of those facing treatment need to learn how to effectively manage these daily skills.
Maintaining a Schedule
Taking care of a home, preparing meals, paying bills on time, caring for personal hygiene, and working all require keeping a proper schedule. While many of us do this without thinking about it, those who have been under the influence of addictive substances may need to learn these skills.
Maintaining Proper Employment
Having a good job is essential when it comes to maintaining the responsibility of caring for the financial needs of your family. However, those who struggle with addiction may need extra support in finding and maintaining proper employment.
How are Life Skills Taught in Rehab?
Life skills can be taught in a variety of ways. Moreover, many rehab centers utilize reality based therapy. This technique allows those in the rehab setting to gain first-hand experience in applying life skills in a real-world setting.
About Treatment At CVRC
Crest View Recovery Center is an addiction rehab center in Asheville, North Carolina. CVRC provides individuals with comprehensive and compassionate care in a private mountain setting. For example, our addiction therapy services include:
Don’t continue to remain a victim of the painful effects of addiction. We can give you the tools you deserve to overcome addiction problems. Call 866-327-2505 to discover the ways that Crest View Recovery Center can lead you on the path to healing.
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Our COVID-19 Protocols
First and foremost, we want to maintain a safe recovery environment and encourage and/or adopt practices protecting the health of patients, employees, visitors and others. We also want to ensure the continuity of providing our addiction recovery services in the face of this global pandemic as we remain open. Note, our staff is fully vaccinated.
The world health community continues to monitor closely the emergence of COVID-19. We want everyone to understand the exact precautions we are taking to address these concerns.
Effective Until Further Notice
ALL incoming clients are pre-screened and Crest view is utilizing the COVID-19 Rapid Test for all newly admitted patients to ensure a safe treatment environment.
No non-essential visitors
ALL clients will need to have their temperature taken daily and recorded. Any client with a temperature higher than 100.4 will be taken to an Urgent Care facility.
ALL Crest View Staff are being routinely tested for COVID.
ALL BHT staff will need to have their temperature taken at the start of their assigned shift. Any BHT staff member with a temperature of 100.4 or higher will be sent home in accordance with this policy.
ALL administrative staff and essential visitors will be required to enter the building upstairs and have their temperature taken with a temple thermometer. Any staff or essential visitor with a temperature higher than 100.4 will be denied entry and be sent home in accordance with this policy.
In accordance with the North Carolina State mandate, all staff, clients and essential visitors will be asked to wear a mask when they can not attain proper social distance.
Some off-site activities may be canceled due to state mandates.
Crest View Recovery Center will provide hand sanitizers throughout the workplace and in common areas. Cleaning sprays and wipes will also be provided to clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces such as telephones and keyboards.
We have required that employees experiencing any respiratory or flu like symptoms will stay home from work. Currently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that employees remain at home until at least 24 hours after they are free of fever (100.4 degrees F or 37.8 degrees C) or signs of a fever without the use of fever-reducing medications.
If you have any questions regarding our COVID-19 protocols or the admissions process during this time, please give us a call directly at (866) 327-2505.
