Residential Mental Health Facilities

While most clients go to residential mental health facilities just for the supportive environment, these centres also offer countless other benefits, such as: 

Removal of Stressors

While conventional therapy sessions on an outpatient basis are beneficial for recovery, they usually occur in the counsellor’s office and fail to remove the client from their current stress. These clients still go home daily to the same places, things, and people that act as triggers or reminders of their daily struggles. Enrolling in a residential recovery clinic, on the other hand, removes the client from this stressful environment and provides an opportunity to move to a peaceful place to start the process of recovery and carve out a healthy and high-quality life for themselves.

Provision of Comprehensive Therapeutic Care

In a residential care home, clients are able to avail a broad range of therapies and treatment options, including dialectical behavioural therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, medication management, medication-assisted treatment, individual and group therapy, and family support groups. The right combination of these evidence-based approaches helps them prepare for a life that waits for them outside the care home.

Round-the-clock Care

Clients with severe mental health issues and suicidal tendencies may endanger their own lives and pose a threat to the safety of others. Residential treatment offers such individuals a safe place with constant monitoring and supervision to ensure they get appropriate medical and holistic treatment without any threat.

Involvement of Families

Most mental health conditions and drug addictions can significantly alter family life. Hence, many residential mental health facilities welcome families to get involved in their loved one’s care plans and offer regular therapy sessions to show their support.

Supportive Community

One of the main components of mental health and addiction treatment is the fellowship that clients share with their counsellors, staff members, and fellow residents. This is one of the reasons why many treatment programmes have high success rates. Joining a residential treatment program offers a support system comprising people who understand the struggles of mental health issues and addictions that can serve as a shoulder to lean on and can prove to be extremely beneficial for most clients. Mental health experts agree that relationships and social connections based on love, hope, support, and friendship are an important part of recovery.

High Succes Rates

Studies have shown that clients getting treatment in a residential facility are more likely to enjoy long-term recovery than those seeking outpatient treatment. A residential treatment experience also minimises the chances of relapse in the future and significantly decreases the risk of encountering a new mental health issue or addiction in the future.

Miscellaneous Activities for Daily Wellbeing

In addition to specialist therapy, residential mental health care facilities also offer different well-being activities as a part of their inpatient programmes. These include meditation and relaxation classes, exercise groups, community-based activities, acupuncture, Shiatsu, and Tai Chi classes, and more. With these activities, clients have a better chance to maximise recovery by focusing on their body, mind, and spirit.

Aftercare Programmes

Clients at a residential treatment facility are often offered to enrol in aftercare programmes where they keep up with their peers and therapists to ensure that no relapses are experienced. These programmes are usually conducted on an outpatient basis and provide consistent support to individuals as they navigate their way through life positively.