SMART Recovery Program

SMART Recovery Self Management and Recovery Training is not a 12-step group. SMART Recovery is a support group for individuals who have chosen to abstain, or are considering abstinence from any type of addictive behaviors, by teaching how to manage self-defeating thinking, emotions, and actions; and to work towards long-term satisfactions and quality of life.
SMART Recovery is based on Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and Stages of Change Therapy, and can be done as a stand alone support system, or in combination with the 12 Step Program. SCBH offers the most extensive SMART Recovery Training in the country, where, if you choose, you can learn how to lead and start your own SMART Meeting. We offer regular SMART meetings and groups at all our facilities.
Discover the Power of Choice
- Building and Maintaining Motivation
- Coping with Urges
- Managing Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviors
- Living a Balanced Life
- Stages of Change
- Motivational Enhancement Theory
- Cognitive Behavioral Theory
- Rational Emotive Behavior Theory
- Abstinence based
- No spiritual component (seen as personal choice)
- Self Empowerment emphasized
- Many pathways to recovery
- Welcomes professionals, non-professionals, recovering people and people not in recovery as volunteers