Alcohol Help

Perry Clayman Project, Luton
Abstinence based detoxification unit providing medically assisted detox and introduction to therapy.

About us:

The Perry Clayman Project is a quasi–residential day-care centre offering clients the prospect of a genuine future after addiction, together with the opportunity to rebuild their lives, move out of the problems associated with addiction and into the solution of recovery and sober living.

Stage One - Detoxification and Assessment

ON arrival our medical team examines the client in order to ensure that the most appropriate detoxification regime is prescribed. This covers all mood-altering chemicals including opiates, alcohol, stimulants including crack cocaine and various designer drugs. At the same time general health levels are observed to ensure patients are in no immediate physical danger.

The comfort of the client is paramount and medication to help ease withdrawal during the detox process is normally necessary.

Detoxification

Detoxification usually takes a maximum of two weeks. During the course of this, a focal counsellor will be allocated to the case. Together with the medical team and client, the counsellor will prepare an initial assessment of the client\’s particular needs, psychological state and circumstances. An on-going care plan is mounted on this basis.

Stage Two - Intensive Treatment

The duration of Stage Two is between 4 – 6 weeks using the Twelve-Step programme as the vehicle to achieve this.

Stage Two will reinforce Step 1 and introduce Step 2 – 5 as follows:

Step 2 Belief in others
Step 3 Trust and faith as tools for recovery
Step 4 The reality of the past
Step 5 Reality

The means used include:
• Group therapy sessions
• One-to-one counselling / psychotherapy
• Anger Management groups
• Peer evaluation reviews
• Goal setting
• Daily diary discussions
• Workshops on relapse prevention, anger management, relationships etc.
• Lectures and video presentations
• Nutritional guidance programmes
• Family sessions, women’s/men’s groups and other ‘special interest’ groups that are incorporated into the programme.

Stage Three - Into Action
Continued Treatment

DURING Stage Two, the second six weeks of stay, clients have begun to appreciate that recovery is within their grasp - trust in both themselves and others has been nurtured and an appropriate perspective of their own reality will have dawned. The patient\’s self-esteem strengthens as sound boundaries and an acceptable value system begin to emerge. The objective of Stage Three is to build on these foundations.

Therapy continues along the same format as in Stage Two, but with increasing emphasis on reality - that of the past and the here and now and how these can be translated into a meaningful and socially acceptable future. The principal at the core of this is the client\’s personal responsibility for his/her own recovery through self-acceptance.

Contact Details:

Perry Clayman Project
31 Rothesay Road
Luton
Bedfordshire
LU1 1QZ

Telephone: 01582 730113