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The Experience

At Structure House, we understand that your goals and needs are unique. Here, removed from the stress of home, you become a student and discover the secrets of implementing and maintaining change in your life. You also become able to customize your schedule to help you reach individual goals and needs.

The New Participant/Core Program is a four-week, intensive program that includes a schedule of behavioral workshops, exercise, and nutrition classes. Emphasizing a medically-sound approach to healthy eating, Structure House provides individual nutrition counseling, menu planning for home, private cooking lessons, restaurant outings, supermarket tours, and weekly cooking demonstrations.

Structure House offers a Diabetes Management Program, which is the first program of its kind to provide a multi-faceted, integrated mix of medical and psychological approaches to treat and prevent diabetes. The program helps participants improve triglyceride and blood sugar levels, safely reduce or suspend diabetes management medications, and prevent health complications associated with diabetes. Participants meet weekly with a Duke University endocrinologist.

Structure House introduced the world's first Post-Bariatric Surgery Program, designed to combine specialized classes on nutrition, psychology and exercise to enhance the long-term effectiveness of obesity surgery. This program includes treatment options specifically designed for post-surgery patients, such as surgery-focused medical assessments and development of personalized eating and relapse prevention plans.

Most recently, Structure House developed a pain coping skills training program based on empirically-validated techniques developed at Duke University Medical Center. Participants learn behavioral strategies to reduce physiological arousal contributing to pain. Further, they learn how to incorporate pain management practices into their daily work and life routines.

Structure House offers Follow-Up Services for additional support. The Not Home Alone Program includes a series of structured telephone sessions with a staff therapist. Structure HouseCalls^SM is an innovative cell phone program that allows participants the opportunity to stay in touch with clinicians and staff members after they return home.

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