S.O.S. Program Overview

Initial Assessment & Evaluation

  • Physical Assessment
  • Nutritional Assessment
  • Chemical Dependency Assessment
    • Alcohol abuse
    • Drug abuse
    • Cocaine and crack abuse
    • Opiate and pain pill abuse
    • Co-Occurring Mental Health Assessment
    • Biopsychsocial assessment
    • Personality issues
    • Depression
    • Anxiety
    • Bipolar conditions
    • Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
  • Legal and ethical issues assessment

Lasting Recovery and Relapse Prevention

  • Re-examination of values, goals and objectives
  • Ethics
  • Lifestyle balance
  • Physical fitness
  • Professional perspectives & career examination
  • Spiritual wellness
  • Financial planning

Client Benefits

  • 1:1 daily for 1 hour – Monday through Thursday
  • Individual physical training – Monday, Wednesday, Friday
  • Acupuncture Therapy
  • Client participates in other activities as prescribed by Clinical Staff
  • Client participates in Peer Lawyer Assistance Meetings weekly.
  • Client attends other groups as prescribed by the Clinical Staff.
  • Client has access to legal research and Stetson Law School resources.
  • Client is given, among other materials, the following materials:
  • I Want to Change my Life, Steven M. Melemis, PhD, MD, Modern Therapies, 2010.
  • A Lawyer’s Guide to Healing, Don Caroll, JD, Hazelden, 2006.
  • The Spirituality of Imperfection, Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketchum, Random House, 1993.
  • Finding Your Moral Compass, Craig Nakken, Hazelden, 2011.
  • Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 2001.

Understanding the Problem

  • Addiction and denial
  • The addictive personality
  • The science of addiction
  • Ego deflation
  • Self-deceptive thinking
  • Addiction and anger
  • Self-perceptions
  • Trauma (PTSD)
  • Co-dependency, process addictions and cross-addictions

Understanding the Solution

  • Psychotherapies – CBT, DBT, others.
  • 12 Step Programs.
  • SMART Recovery, and secular recovery programs.
  • Attitudes and ideas.
  • A new, alternative reality.
  • Hope and humility.
  • Willful to willing.
  • Reframing time.
  • Reconnecting to oneself

Adventure Sport & Activities

  • SUP Paddle boarding
  • Kayaking
  • Sailing
  • Scuba diving and snorkeling
  • Climbing wall
  • Zip lines
  • Horseback riding
  • Golf and tennis
  • Deep sea fishing
  • Windsurfing
  • Waterskiing & wave boarding
  • Yoga WorkoutBeach walks
  • Cycling
  • Motor boating

Alternative Therapies

  • Acupuncture
  • Craniosacral therapy
  • Hypnotherapy
  • EMDR

 

Sexuality Issues

  • Legal professionals with lesbian, gay and bisexual and transgender needs are welcomed with additional programs and treatment modalities as well as LGBT support groups.
  • Legal professionals confronting issues of love addiction and sex addiction have additional treatment modalities available as well.