Service Description

Intensive Outpatient (IOP) and Supportive Outpatient (SOP) Psycho-educational Groups are held every 4th Saturday of the month from 10 am to 12 pm. This class counts as 2 sessions towards your program. "Psycho-education (PE) is defined as an intervention with systematic, structured, and didactic knowledge transfer for an illness and its treatment, integrating emotional and motivational aspects to enable patients to cope with the illness and to improve its treatment adherence and efficacy (Ekhtiari , Rezapour, Aupperle, & Paulus, 2017)" References Ekhtiari , H., Rezapour, T., Aupperle, R. L., & Paulus, M. P. (2017). Neuroscience-informed psycho-education for addiction medicine: A neurocognitive perspective (Vol. 235). Tulsa, OK, United States: Laureate Institute for Brain Research.