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Benefits/Outcomes
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IN-PROGRAM CULTURE
- Staff members exemplifying self-help increase openness and attraction to a program of change
- Working together on the shared common goal fosters personal investment, connectedness (cohesion) and cooperation
- Support network of likeminded peers combats isolation
- Healthy substitute for idle unstructured time reduces the risk of returning to unwanted behaviors
- Structured “scripted” rules and roles ease adjustment
- Availability of creative projects provides an outlet to alleviate social anxiety intrinsic to novel settings
- Forum to express issues in a relaxed, safe, confidential environment among peers adds to the ability to work though issues
- Sharing creates an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect as well as an outlet for “venting”
- Feedback from the meetings and suggestions of peers and staff provide practical, “hands-on” coping tools
- Receiving healthy, undistorted, constructive, realistic feedback without judgment aids “ego sizing”
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BUILDING BLOCKS OF SELF ESTEEM
- Achieving incremental pre-set tasks to accomplish the ultimate goal while being able to claim the credit for the accomplishment
- Permission to make mistakes and be imperfect
- Not having to adhere to a preset expectation invites trust in the creative process
- Not having to know or produce a certain outcome increases comfort with the process
- Identifying strengths, eliciting creative input helps in forming a new healthy identity
- Non-verbal ways to address issues through creative means help move toward awareness and resolution
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REWIRING THE BRAIN
- Socializing without altered states helps to extinguish dysfunctional patterns
- New positive experiences and opportunities to explore newly-discovered creative ability, learning new coping tools and trade/music skills and producing tangible results
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