'Man helping man to help himself'

TREATMENT PHILOSOPHY AND MODEL

FBTC is a drug-free environment in which people with addiction and behavioural issues live together in an organized and structured way. The community encourages and promotes change and makes possible a drug-free life in the outside society. The therapeutic community forms a miniature society in which residents, and staff in the role of  facilitators, fulfil distinctive roles and adhere to clear rules, all designed to promote recovery and right living.  This social setting and environment is the treatment model, which differ fundamentally from other treatment programmes.”

The TC community approach consist of five interrelated views i.e.

• Drug Use Disorder
• The Person
• Recovery
• Right Living and
• The Community Approach

Induvidual Treatment itself may then be conceptualised as three inter-related processes:

• Fostering awareness of inner feelings, needs, conflicts and core beliefs, particularly as they arise in the context of interpersonal relationships;
• Encouraging development of more healthy, adaptive means of handling feelings, getting needs met and resolving inner conflicts;
  
• A more directive, cognitive-behavioural teaching of effective strategies for promoting abstinence from addictive behaviour (what constitutes abstinence for a given person depends on which behaviours are being used addictively, and on how addictive use of behaviour may be distinguished from healthy behaviour in that individual)."

Affiliated with the World Federation of Therapeutic Communities.WFTC