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Doctors’ visit
Every morning, you have a meeting with the medical team to discuss your treatment, activities and outings.
Activity leaders will propose the day’s programme. They are also available
to assist you with various administrative or personal formalities you may need
to accomplish – and even have a coffee with you.
You have the possibility of talking to a psychologist or consulting a doctor or a nurse at any time during the day.
The main objective of the medical team is to determine and relieve the permanent discomfort suffered by the user. To do this, doctors establish a pharmacological treatment in order to treat the disorders arising from chronic usage, regulate the patient’s mood and, as a result, stabilise his condition.
The aim is not simply to “wean the patient off” the toxic product but to enable him to escape the entanglement of using substances as durably as possible. This treatment stems from daily observation work and dialogue between the patient and team of carers.
Psychological monitoring is the second mainstay of the Montevideo Clinic therapeutic framework. It enables the psychological situation of the patient to be assessed and his needs and weak points identified.
Interviews with the psychotherapist are frequent. It does not involve establishing “classic therapy” but setting up a patient / therapist dialogue concerning the addiction and the condition of the user. The objective is to ultimately demystify the user’s relationship with the substance or behaviour and re-establish for him a viewpoint of his addiction that is autonomous, critical and global.
You will receive a weekly schedule of activities when you arrive at Montevideo Clinic. According to your aptitudes and preferences, a coach will organise with you a personalised, tailored daily programme.
• Postural and respiratory gymnastics (group and individual sessions)
• Tennis, cycling, rowing machine, jogging, basket-ball, canoeing
• Relaxation
• Swimming
• Singing (group and individual sessions)
• Plastic arts
• Writing workshop
• Creative workshop
• Culinary workshop (buying food, preparation and tasting)
• Animated film workshop
• Cinema, exhibitions, walks and outings as a group
These activities are an integral part of the therapy and cure. They enable patients to experience simple pleasures again (the pleasure of creating, pushing back boundaries, etc.) and divert attention from the thought of the product or addictive behaviour. Over time, the patient stops focussing on the substance or object and his conscience is gradually liberated. In addition, discussion groups are arranged every week between patients.
Meals are proposed at fixed times and can be taken in the room, on the terrace or in the tearoom on your floor.
There are two underlying objectives to the role of coaches and the place occupied by activities in the Clinic’s therapeutic framework:
• the numerous different coaches and activity leaders, which enables patients
to be monitored carefully on an individual basis day-by-day,
• the creation of a context of exchange via the various activities, which offer
the patient the possibility of expressing what he feels in a different manner
to the traditional setting of an office.
The information collected by coaches and activity leaders is essential to the medical and psychological monitoring of patients.
According to the instructions given by the medical team, visits are permitted in the afternoon from 2 to 7pm.
- The multi-purpose hall: a large, functional space where most of the Clinic’s sport and artistic activities are held. Possibility of borrowing books from the library.
- The tearooms: every floor has its own tearoom, with cold and warm drinks and fruit available. A light, pleasant place to take meals as a group or spend a companionable moment with a cup of coffee. Board games are also available.
- The gymnasium, with various types of muscular training and fitness equipment, etc.
This area is open all day, with a coach on duty.
- Out of doors: open all year round, the garden and terrace are ideal for receiving visits, having lunch or dinner or relaxing with a game of table tennis or table football.
Montevideo Clinic is an open place that encourages and maintains links with the outside world. Patients are therefore authorised to go out (if doctors consider their state of health satisfactory). Authorisation is required for outings and a liability release register must be signed indicating the time you leave and return. Some patients are also able to continue with their professional activities.
When you leave
Follow-up:
An 18-month post-hospitalisation period by the same team is proposed by the Clinic to all patients hospitalised.
It consists of facilitating the transition between the Clinic and the outside world, as well as regularly monitoring your state of health and its development:
• medical consultations,
• psychological consultations and
• external physical and artistic activities
• Post: your post is distributed by nursing staff when received.
• Telephone: all rooms have a telephone with the possibility of obtaining an outside line.
• Safe: an individual safe is installed in each room. Management declines any liability in the event of loss or theft.
• Television: each TV set has a bundle of 15 satellite channels including Canal+, CNN, LCI, Planète, Eurosport, MTV, Ciné Classic, etc…
• Internet: you can log on via the telephone line using a laptop computer with internal modem. Some rooms in La Havane have high speed Internet access (paid service). A free-access Internet area in La Havane.
• Laundry: during your stay, your personal laundry can be taken care of by our housekeeper.
A bathrobe and towels will be provided on arrival.
• Library: the library is open all day.
