What is psychological rehabilitation?

It is a rehabilitation of the addict through a good personal study, knowledge of all strengths and weaknesses in personality, and a complete study of personality traits and characteristics, through a set of basic steps, including:

An attempt to study the characteristics of an addict’s personality.
Knowing all the psychological needs of the addict is one of the most important steps in psychological rehabilitation.
Studying all mental illnesses the addict suffers from is a very important step in psychological rehabilitation.
The final elimination of the internal conflict that the addict suffers from.
Do a comprehensive psychological research for the addict.
Knowing the psychological compatibility of the addict.

The role of the psychologist in the psychological rehabilitation of the addict:
Conducting intelligence tests for the addict.
Doing a group of personal tests for drug addict.
Doing a set of psychological satisfactory tests for the addict, such as “depression test and anxiety test” and others.
Doing a group of tests for addictions.
A group of individual and group psychotherapy sessions are very important in the psychological rehabilitation of the addict.

As for the social rehabilitation of the addict, it is the social improvement which includes improving and correcting some of the conditions surrounding the addict that hinder him from communicating with the external community and preparing him for a normal life again.

The importance of psychological rehabilitation for the addict:

Psychological rehabilitation and social rehabilitation are two sides of the same coin, which seeks to develop the personality of the addict by strengthening some of his qualifications such as social and individual skills, so that the individual can achieve maximum satisfaction in the context of some concepts, self-confidence and self-understanding, as well as positive interaction With all social, professional and family levels, in a context balanced with principles, concepts, ethics and values.

Objectives of psychosocial rehabilitation:
a. The human personality, which targets the following:
Developing the addict’s personality and achieving integration by removing it.
Modify the addict’s behavior in order to be consistent with the legal and social text.
A sense of professional and family responsibility.
Deep understanding and analytical treatment of all risks Knowing the drivers of deviation.
Awareness and sense of the risks and consequences of all wrong behaviors.

B. Humanitarian, professional and social goals:
Achieving harmony within the family and achieving a great deal of harmony in order to ensure continuity, stability and integration.
React positively.
Participation in life in general, according to what is imposed by all moral and humanitarian principles and laws.
Achieving professional harmony that leads to psychological and economic stability.

Psychological rehabilitation and social integration of addicts:

Psychological rehabilitation and social integration includes all professional interventions that work to help the addiction patient go beyond the stages of the disease and reach a state in which he can interact from a sexual, psychological, social and professional point of view, with the creation of positive compatibility that enables him to overcome some disease symptoms.
From the above, it can be said that there are a set of goals for psychological rehabilitation:

Addictive personality development.
Modifying the addict’s behavior.
Freedom from the influence of the drug and overcome all the difficulties that the addict is going through, such as social, psychological and accompanying difficulties.
Return the addict to society in a way that is reconciled and tolerant of himself.
Psychosocial support that makes the addict eligible to play some appropriate social roles that ultimately lead to self-confidence and raise the level of individual ambition.