Welcome to Camp III -Let's Get Better-

"If you start to feel worse while you are at Camp, then the irony is you are probably getting better. Life is filled with paradoxes and Camp is no exception" is just one of the 151-clinically driven tips available to you in this book, Welcome to Camp, a preparatory text for anyone getting ready to start (or already attending) an intensive treatment program such as any type of residential treatment (long-term, short-term, partial or otherwise) or an intensive outpatient program, or day-treatment such as a partial hospital program, and or outpatient therapy in general. Going to treatment itself is a task unto itself. Just making it there is one thing. Getting the most out of it though is another. Welcome to Camp provides inside information about the ins-and-outs of treatment, informing you with specific tips and brief descriptions of how to apply each clinically oriented tip. The key is to get the most out of it and not jut the mere fact you went. It is written for the person going to treatment as well as for family members who can become more than supportive in the application process. This book helps you on a day-to-day basis. It focuses upon perspective, attitude, hope, medications, therapy, determination, staff relations, family engagement, feelings and emotions and the expectations that come with these factors, all important elements of a treatment experience. It provides insights into the every day issues of being a resident and or a participant in a psycho-therapeutic treatment program. The intention is to help you get all you can out of your treatment experience, whether it is your first time or the result of multiple times, all in an effort to make sure you succeed this time- once and for all.