2011

I can only review the IOP program as I didn’t do their day treatment.

ANJ is basically Rosewood Ranch’s day treatment center. I have not been a fan, at all. Mondays we fill out a goals and commitments sheet and everyone goes around and reads theirs, then you have dinner, process group, HS snack. Tuesdays you hear someone’s life story before dinner then after dinner there’s art therapy (but last week there was a relationships and boundaries group). Wednesday is the meal outing. Before you go out you fill out a form listing your goals, your fears, how you’re going to deal with those feelings, and how ready you feel for the outing. The budget for the outing is 10 dollars. After the outing you process the meal by filling out the back of the form commenting on how different things affected your experience and how well you met your goals. Thursdays start with process group and then there’s body image. Friday is dedicated to the cooking challenge. You fill out a form beforehand saying what your goals are, what your thoughts and feelings are, how you’re going to deal with those thoughts and feelings and your current hunger level. Then everyone participates in the cooking. After eating you fill out the back of the sheet which asks what activity you participated in, what was most difficult, possibly asks how you dealt with the difficulty, what you learned about yourself and how you can incorporate something from the experience into your recovery or meal plan.

Food is strictly exchanges. You bring your own dinner for IOP. They deal with weight gain by just increasing your exchanges. You meet with the dietitian weekly.

I don’t want to totally slam the program because I’m just one person with one experience, but some of my dislikes are that you don’t have an individual therapist unless you pay for one, the monotony of filling out those forms every week and the number of clients. One good thing is that there’s consistency with staff. Two therapists work IOP, the same dietitian always sits at meals, the same dietitian goes on the meal outings, etc.