Specifications include, but are not limited to: Residential substance abuse treatment is a type of individual and group activities and treatment provided in a residential facility. Residential treatment services are provided to eligible youth and adolescents exhibiting maladaptive patterns of substance use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress that cannot be treated in other less restrictive treatment settings. Youth requiring residential substance abuse treatment, both male and female, may be already in the community under supervision of an assigned probation officer, they may be offenders completing a placement or correctional component of a Court Order, or may be offenders awaiting adjudication by a Court. The goal of residential substance abuse treatment is to change the youth’s attitudes and behavior regarding drug use, especially in cases where the client has a long history of drug use and/or the client’s social functioning is severely compromised. A residential program allows youth to avoid the temptations that led them to take the drugs they are addicted to. In addition, clients are removed from the circumstances that served as triggers to substance use/abuse, allowing them to concentrate fully on their recovery program. Key elements include, but are not limited to, skills teaching, therapeutic structure and routine, therapeutic recreation, motivational systems, and behavioral management. Residential substance abuse treatment seeks to successfully transition the client to permanent placement by providing cognitive, behavioral, social, vocational, and other skills to address the substance abuse and related problems. Many programs throughout the United States provide other services to address the needs of clients, such as family therapy, employment training, and social, health, and legal services.
