A Wide Range Of Treatment Options
The goal of Alcohol and Drug treatment is to provide appropriate, individualized treatment planning for individuals to achieve long lasting recovery. The immediate needs, however for the individual is to reduce drug abuse, improve the individuals ability to function and to reduce and eliminate social and medical complications from drug abuse and addiction.
The Cedars provides a variety of approaches to reducing complications and addressing long or short term problems that addiction and drug abuse had caused. It provides individual counseling, psychotherapy, and group counseling with selected methods that best fits the individuals needs. It also takes into account, co-existing conditions that may need special attention and a specific method of treatment.
The Cedars staff are professional and certified therapists who will assess and select appropriate methods to provide individualized treatment to the residents.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is a highly recognized and effective method of treatment, used by the individuals to identify their addiction as a behavior, rather than blame things or others. It is taking responsibility for their own actions. Even though they can not change others, they can change themselves.
Rational Emotive Therapy (RET) is about changing our thought process in the way we react to emotions. How we control our emotions, is how we learn to control our behaviors and the way we react to situations that aid an individual to want to use drugs and/or alcohol.
Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) seeks to move individuals from pleasure vs pain reasoning levels, to levels where concern for social rules and others become important in their lives.
Spirituality as a way of life, concerns itself with aligning the human will and mind with that dimension of life and the universe, that is harmonious and ordered. It is a connection with what or whoever is their higher power.
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Extensive individual therapy is offered by the Cedars to those that have been assessed as needing more than the usual amount of individual therapy. It may be more intense and address more profound issues presented by the individual.
Group therapy has been proven to be a very effect form of therapy because of its supportive nature involving other individuals who are experiencing the same or similar problems in life.
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Psychotherapy, much like individual therapy, uses different approaches and techniques to guide an individual in recognizing and solving problems in life that have become unmanageable.
The twelve-step method has been adapted to a variety of addictions, compulsions and dependencies. It originally began with a set of principles to guide alcoholics to recovery and carry the message. However , many drug addicted individuals felt they could not relate to an alcohol dependency, therefore other groups began to spring up like Narcotics Anonymous. Other dependencies, such as food and gambling, have also revised the twelve-step program to meet their needs.
Co-existing conditions such as anxiety disorders, stress, depression, grief and loss, to mention only a few are found to be road blocks to a successful recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. These co-existing conditions are assessed and addressed within the individualized treatment planning of the resident who enters The Cedars.
Dual diagnosis can be difficult to identify because the symptoms of mental illness and substance abuse mimic each other. When dual disorders are identified, they need to be treated simultaneously for a more successful recovery.
Nutrition and physical fitness is an intricate part of recovery. It helps to restore lost body strength and impairments to the immune system that has been caused by alcohol and drug abuse.
Massage therapy is highly effective in releasing tension in the muscles, skin and tendons. Most people use it for relaxation, relief of stress and anxiety or to reduce muscle soreness often associated with withdrawal.
Personal Adjustment Therapy is used in a group setting to assist the individual to become aware of attitudes, values and beliefs and how they affect the individual in the "here and now." It is a specific type of therapy that utilizes group activities and a set of structured guidelines to encourage responsibility and accountability in recovery.
Life Adjustment Therapy is a group designed to continue what has been learned in Personal Adjustment therapy. It is learning to apply our own personal experiences and knowledge to the world around us.