Didactic Groups Addiction and mental health problems

The Value of Didactic Groups

Your personal experiences with addiction are unlike anyone else’s, which we, at Avalon Malibu, understand. For that reason, it’s essential that you receive treatment tailored to who you are and what you value. Your time in recovery must also address your particular addiction or mental health issue as well as the specific ways it affects you.

We utilize various models of psychotherapy to promote the discussion of personal issues and find solutions to the many problems you may be facing. Depending on your unique circumstance, you may participate in didactic groups — a therapeutic modality focused on creating dialog and solving problems.

Group therapy is often useful for many individuals struggling with addiction or a mental health issue, but didactic therapy focuses less on the atmosphere that a group setting can create and instead attempts to help you overcome challenges that you might face now or in the future. Whereas conventional group therapy invites open dialog and emotional response, didactic groups are more pragmatic and encourage members to identify problems in life that could lead to harmful behaviors later on.

Didactic groups exercise problem-solving skills, which is highly beneficial if you are at risk for relapse. As a short-term therapeutic solution, what you learn in didactic therapy can easily be applied to life outside of recovery when you are forced to reckon with the chaotic nature of the world.