Chrysalis Residential and Extended Care Programs utilize our EMPWR care model to inform and customize treatment plans. EMPWR was developed using insights gleaned from thousands of hours of Chrysalis and our global partners’ clinical experience. The model is used to achieve a real-time understanding of each client’s Emotional Health, Mental Health, Physical Health, Work Ethic, and Relational Health. Used in conjunction with a comprehensive range of behavioral metric data, the Chrysalis care team is able to assess client clinical progress and make adjustments to treatment plans to optimize care and achieve better outcomes. Chrysalis emphasizes “treatment-by-fact,” an approach that aims to reduce the often subjective nature of mental healthcare measures and outcomes. It can be difficult for clients — especially adolescent clients — to accurately assess their own therapeutic progress. Our development and use of EMPWR provides objective measures with which to gauge individual client progress across a complete range of mental, emotional, and physical evaluation criteria.
The EMPWR Care Model assesses the primary aspects of holistic client health and facilitates progress measurement and treatment optimization.
The ability to express your feelings. How do you communicate with the rest of the world?
How your brain processes your emotional experience. Unconscious factors that influence your emotions and behaviors.
A physical state avoiding, where possible, illness and injury. How are you caring for your physical self?
Engagement in a worthy endeavor that requires dedication. What do you do?
Your intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships. Do your relationships foster positive growth?
Some of the best programs that help people overcome addiction don’t occur in a room. They involve getting outside and being active. That’s the idea behind ropes course therapy. However, what makes a ropes course a good fit for someone who struggles with addiction, mental health, or problematic behaviors?
First, it’s important to understand what a ropes course therapy program is. Basically, it’s an outdoor therapy program that aims to help people overcome their fears and trust others. Both of these lessons are important during addiction recovery.
While ropes courses help people overcome fears, there’s nothing to worry about while on a ropes course. Rehab centers outfit participants with the latest in safety equipment to ensure no harm.
With that said, clients still experience the rush, stress, fear, and resulting confidence that comes with taking on a new challenge. Primary therapists and other trained clinicians relate these ropes courses to the problems that they face in everyday life. What coping mechanisms and skills would be useful? Using what they learn on the ropes course, they’re mentally ready to tackle challenges that they encounter outside of a treatment center.
Participating in a ropes course is exciting and fun. However, people can actually learn a lot in the process. For starters, a ropes course therapy program teaches them about teamwork. They learn that they can rely on others and that others can rely on them.
Ropes course therapy also teaches people about how influence matters in groups. They gain an understanding of how others influence them and how they influence others. For many of them, this relation provides comfort after a residential treatment center experience.
In addition, ropes course therapy builds people’s confidence and self-esteem. Before they can learn to trust in others, they have to trust themselves. In fact, building self-confidence can help them develop skills that cultivate healthy relationships.
Most importantly, ropes course therapy can help people develop healthy coping skills. Learning how to cope with challenging situations is a cornerstone of effective treatment. By developing these skills, people can avoid relapse and achieve successful ongoing recovery.
Often, there’s no real test for the information that people learn while in rehab. They don’t know how they’ll react to certain situations until they happen. While they can practice concepts and skills, sometimes it isn’t until after discharging that the lessons can be fully implemented.
A ropes course therapy program helps clients experience and deal with real-time situations, including stress, fear, and communication. The stress that they feel is different from the stress that therapists mimic during traditional counseling. In the end, it shows them that they can deal with situations as they arise. Alumni later reflect that it deflates self-defeating thoughts.