Internationally recognized, the River Oaks Compulsive Behaviors
Program provides an integration of treatment methods identifying factors that influence or impact the patient's acting out while replacing compulsive behavior with non-addictive adaptive coping responses. Behavioral reconditioning, relapse prevention planning and twelve step approaches are utilized to maintain control over destructive behavioral patterns. Goals of treatment are individualized to meet the specific needs of the identified patient. They may include:

• Ownership of the compulsive behavior
  
  
• Breaking the denial (facts, awareness, responsibility, impact)
  
  
• Accepting responsibility for the impact on self/others
  
  
• Affect regulation of healthy expression of mad, glad, scared, sad
  
  
• Shame reduction
  
  
• Identification of acting out cycles and interventive strategies
  
  
• Behavioral reconditioning
  
  
• Relapse prevention planning
  
  
• Resolving issues related to family of origin and learning intimacy skills
  
  
• Identifying and resolving trauma issues
  
  
• Developing a balanced plan for living with new life skills