Treatment

The following is Peniel’s treatment program. Each phase lasts for approximately three months.

Phase I: introduction
During this phase of treatment the client is given time to adjust to the structure of the program. The paperwork is completed and, if necessary, the proper authorities are notified of the client’s induction. The client is assigned a "Big Brother/Big Sister" who assists the individual in learning the rules and regulations and gives encouragement to them during this period of adjustment.

Goals and Objectives

Step 1: "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol/drugs – that our lives had become unmanageable."

Step 2: "Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. "

Step 3: "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. "

Phase II: big brother/big sister
In this phase, the client is expected to demonstrate some of the objectives he has learned by accepting additional responsibilities, which are assigned by their counselor and/or other staff members.

Goals and Objectives

Step 4: "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. "

Step 5: "Admitted to God, ourselves, and to other human beings, the exact nature of our wrong."

Step 6: "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character."

Phase III: group leader
During this phase of treatment, the client is expected to continue demonstrating leadership qualities by accepting additional responsibilities. Clients are asked to show, through behavior, that they understand that with authority comes responsibility.

Goals and Objectives

Step 7: "Humbly ask Him to remove our shortcomings."

Step 8: "Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. "

Step 9: "Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. "

Phase IV: senior group leader
During the final stage of treatment, the counselor and the client concentrate on designing the client’s aftercare plan for the re-entry phase. Clients are given the additional authority and responsibility, which will enable them to demonstrate that they can function under pressure and make decisions based upon Biblical principles rather than upon their feelings.

Goals and Objectives

Step 10: "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admit it."

Step 11: "Sought, through prayer and meditation, to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand Him, praying for knowledge of His will for us, and power to carry that out."

Step 12: "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics/drug abusers, and practice these principles in all our affairs."