Recovery Dynamics® is a 12-Step based treatment model that was written and developed in Little Rock, Arkansas in the 1970’s. The model has proven so successful over the last 40 years that it is now used in treatment centers throughout the United States and in at least 5 foreign countries, including, most recently multiple treatment centers in Japan. We are in the planning stages of implementing

Recovery Dynamics® at a treatment center in Ghana. Notably, Recovery Dynamics® is the only treatment model used in the state of Kentucky’s “Recovery Kentucky” program, made up of 14 state-funded residential treatment centers, founded in 2005 and going strong today. We work closely with the Recovery Kentucky centers, as their sole treatment model, and have helped thousands of suffering and addicted residents of Kentucky achieve recovery. We hope to do the same in our home state of Arkansas.

Recovery Dynamics® is made up of 28 group sessions, designed to be conducted by certified counselors in residential treatment facilities for those suffering from addiction to drugs and alcohol. We know that the 12-Step model is the most effective method for treating alcohol and drug addiction. Most treatment facilities touch on Steps 1-3 and include attendance at 12-Step meetings in discharge plans, but they are not equipped or trained to actively guide clients through the Steps. Thus, clients are often discharged with insufficient understanding of their problem (the disease of addiction) and the solution (the 12 Steps). Recovery Dynamics® is designed to immerse the client in the 12 Steps, leading them through a clear and concise series of actions that bring about the desired result-long-term sobriety.

Recovery Dynamics® is designed to allow for other therapeutic interventions. It works well in conjunction with the evidence-based counseling model of Motivational Interviewing (MI).

MI is structured to build rapport in the counseling relationship, identify readiness for change, and encourage the client to bring out and build upon their own personal commitment by pairing their readiness with the detailed education and understanding gained through Recovery Dynamics®. MI works sufficiently in both residential and outpatient levels of care.

MI focuses on exploring and resolving the client’s ambivalence through motivational processes that facilitate and encourage change. While not imposing or forcing change, MI supports the changes that the client personally commits to strive for. These changes are based on their own values and concerns. The use of Recovery Dynamics®, coupled with MI, assists the client in seeing a realistic view of the dilemma of alcoholism/addiction and supports and enhances their motivation to change.

The group sessions that make up the Recovery Dynamics® program allow the client to see their addiction for what it is (Step One), to recognize the insanity of their behavior and to develop hope for their recovery (Step Two), to make a decision to move forward with recovery (Step Three), and to complete and share with a counselor or a member of a recovery group a “searching and fearless moral inventory” (Steps Four and Five), which is often the most daunting task for newcomers to recovery, all while under the care and supervision of mental health professionals in a clinical setting. Clients receive a thorough education on the remaining Steps and are given tools, such as inventory sheets, to assist them in the maintenance of their continued sobriety upon discharge.

The Recovery Dynamics® model includes Counselor’s Manuals, which guide professionals through the 28 group sessions, Client Guidebooks, which provide word definitions, illustrations, and charts that the clients use to follow along during group sessions, and Individual Evaluation Packets, which are client workbooks that include quizzes on the material covered in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous and in groups sessions as well as other therapeutic tools such as family histories and work histories, which facilitate one-on-one counseling in conjunction with the group sessions.

Recovery Dynamics® has proven to be effective in a variety of settings, not just residential treatment, and, while it is based on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, it is successfully used in the treatment of all types of addiction.