Characteristics of an intensive outpatient device in the treatment of Substance use Disorders

Abstract

The Substance Use Disorder (SUD) alters the patient’s social, family and working performance significantly, together with Mental and Physical Health. The Dispositivo Pavlovsky (DP) is an outpatient and intensive treatment modality for users/clients that do not require an inpatient facility but do need a more intense approach than traditional/classic out patient treatment. The DP has a variety of therapeutic of fers with a protocol in a pre established setting, adapted to the patient’s needs. The treatment intensive given characteristic, it provides a better psychical support and promotes abstinence among the users/clients, who, because of their pathology, present common features of ambivalence towards suspending the consumption of the problematic substance. Overall, the therapeutic proposal is characterized by offering and promoting the use of tools and strategies for the daily life, such as intensive Group Therapy Setting, Individual Therapy, Psychiatric Consultation, Toxicology consultation, attendance to workshops, creating a participatory network, that provides a group setting support oriented to wards psychoeducation, and accompaniment of the patience. The DP has interdisciplinary teams with diverse theoretical frameworks. These professional skeep a fluid communication, with formal exchange settings, intervening in the directionality of the treatment in general and delving deep in each
particular case.