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Treatments
The bio-psycho-social model
The theoretical basis for treatment at U-center is based on 2 pillars: the bio-psycho-social model and Theory U. They form the basis for your diagnosis, the analysis of your problems, the treatment plan and your treatment program.
The bio-psycho-social model assumes that problems and disorders are caused by a combination of biological/medical, psychological and social factors. Biological/medical factors include, for example, genetic vulnerability, constitution, diseases, medication, substance use. Psychological factors include personality, coping style and trauma. Social factors include relationships, family, work, hobbies, daily activities, finances and housing. The treatment plan should be consistent with the analysis of these factors for the individual client, concretized into goals in each of these areas, with associated interventions.
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Interventions and methodologies
Much work is done in groups. The sessions focus on learning skills, insights, group dynamics, interaction with others, insights into behavioral patterns, etc. They are transdiagnostic in nature.
The 1-on-1 sessions between client and practitioner are specifically tailored to the client's issues. Evidence-based methodologies are used.
Lifestyle is a major influence on psychological symptoms. To prevent relapse, maintain treatment gains and encourage healthy future development, we use interventions to create lifestyle change.
The social network is very important in a person's life. Therefore, sessions specifically target family, partners and work relationships.
In every phase of treatment, e-health is an integral part. E-health is a collective term for online interventions. You can think of online treatment modules and self-help modules, sometimes in combination with diaries, which are used in addition to regular therapies. Online contact is also e-health: video calling or sending messages via a secure environment.
Self-employment includes:
- Assignments / self-study / self-care / homework
- Journal writing
- E-health via Minddistrict
Different forms of therapy
Prior to all treatments, psychoeducation is an important intervention. In particular, it involves information and theoretical underpinning. You receive explanations about your diagnosis(s), about behavioral patterns (schemas) and about types of treatment. If applicable, you will for example receive more information about addiction and the effects of substances such as alcohol, drugs or medication on your brain.
In insightful psychotherapy, for example short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, you investigate the background and meaning of your psychological problems that hinder you in your daily functioning and in your relationships with other people. To understand and change repetitive patterns in your thinking, feelings and behavior, your life history is important as well as how you function now. What do the complaints mean? These insights into your conscious and unconscious drives can help you change your behavior and start to feel better.
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a psychotherapy that teaches you - mainly through exercises - to look at and deal with problematic situations differently. In cognitive behavioral therapy, the behavior and thoughts that maintain the problems are discussed and treated. Its effectiveness has been proven by scientific research. Treatments are complaint- or problem-oriented and generally last a short time.
MBCT is a form of cognitive behavioral therapy. In it you learn, among other things through various meditation techniques, to live more consciously in the moment. By becoming aware and letting go of automatisms and judgments, it is possible to achieve inner calm.
ACT is a form of cognitive behavioral therapy. In ACT, you learn to focus your attention on things you can directly influence, such as your own behavior, instead of trying to gain control over experiences that cannot be directly influenced, such as emotions and thoughts. Training this creates space to focus on things that are really important to you. This implies an acceptance-oriented attitude toward these emotions and thoughts. The ultimate goal of ACT is that you can deal with life's problems flexibly and thus lead a valuable and vital life.
Schematherapy (Schema Focused Therapy) is a form of psychotherapy for people with mental disorders, such as personality disorder or recurrent depression. Schematherapy helps you understand and change the origins of behavioral patterns. The influence of childhood experiences on your patterns and daily life is explored. You learn to change yourself in such a way that you feel better and can take better care of yourself. You learn to feel your needs and you learn to stand up for them in a healthier way. This changes not only your behavior, but also your thoughts and feelings.
Mentalizing means being able to understand and explain your own behavior and that of others from underlying feelings, thoughts, needs and motivation. Symptoms of mental illness, social and interpersonal functioning and personality problems improve significantly when you train and develop this mentalizing.
EMDR is a technique often used with people who have experienced trauma. The thoughts and feelings are disconnected from the event itself by flooding the capacity of working memory.
- Competitive Memory Training (COMET). COMET is a behavioral therapy training that helps you improve your self-image and self-esteem.
- Skills Training Emotion Regulation Disorder (VERS)
- Interpersonal therapy (part of CBT)
- Resource refusal training
- Social Skills Training. In this training you will learn to improve your social skills and communication, using concrete exercises and tips.
- Physical therapy and vitality management
- Movement therapy
- Body-oriented therapy
- Energy and balance
- Relaxation therapy
- Chronotherapy (light therapy)
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Emotional expression
During treatment or between therapies, there is also room for emotional expression in various forms, such as music making, creative classes and drama therapy.
Through making or listening to music, you can express your emotions and thoughts. Therefore, both U-center locations have a piano for free use and clients are allowed to bring their own musical instrument and practice it during their stay at U-center.
The goal of creative classes is to reinforce a process of change through visual means such as drawing, painting, modeling, sculpting. The classes are experiential. You are guided to create something that has emotional meaning for you with your own hands and make it tangible.
In this vocational therapy, forms such as improvisation, movement and role-playing are used to really experience and experiment what certain behaviors do to your emotions.
Using theatrical and musical exercises, you learn to use your body and voice as an instrument to express yourself more easily. The sessions loosen up a lot and set new behaviors in motion.
Drug treatment
Relapse prevention and continued development
Relapse prevention (group)
Future Development Plan (TOP).
Self-help group
Lifestyle Change
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Last updated 23-03-2022
Page reviewed by:
Luca Jacobi
Psychologist
Psychologist at U-center treatment center.