Serenity House Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention
Serenity House Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention
For almost forty years, we have helped over 36,000 patients recover from substance use disorders. Our comprehensive program equips clients with important mental, physical and emotional resources. Rather than relying on just one approach, we craft a personalized treatment program to meet the unique needs of each individual.
We utilize an evidence-based curriculum, and our detox program is overseen by experienced nurses and physicians who implement a safe, healthy detoxification plan based on each client’s drugs of choice and intoxication levels.
Clients work through this curriculum in the context of individual counseling, group counseling, and educational lectures. Upon admission, clients are paired with a counselor with whom they meet on a regular basis during the course of their treatment. Additionally, clients meet daily with a process group and group counselor to gain insights of the recovery process.
Education through daily lectures and processing groups augment the individual and group counseling. Counselors and qualified agency staff conduct classes that equip patients with essential knowledge about the disease of addiction, complicating factors to substance abuse, and important life skills and recovery techniques.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a well-validated, person-centered therapeutic approach that facilitates and engages a person’s intrinsic motivation to change behavior.
Instead of challenging a negative habitual behavior directly, the clinician encourages the patient to devise a list of problems that it causes. It seems that making patients aware of the discrepancy between ‘where they are and where they want to be’ increases the importance of change and thus helps to build self-understanding.
MI recognizes that clients approach counseling at different levels of readiness to change their behavior. The main goals of MI are to engage clients, elicit change talk, and evoke motivation to make positive changes from the client.
You can expect your counselor to facilitate these MI skills:
With the person-centered approach, your therapist will be empathetic and genuine; the therapist is not seen as the expert, but as a guide. Therapy will teach you unconditional positive regard. You will learn how to be easy on yourself in the process. Too often we judge ourselves harshly and fail to recognize that everyone makes mistakes.
Person-centered therapy is a judgement free zone. A no-judgment environment is important when you are in therapy for substance abuse. Using substances is damaging emotionally and your past may involve things you don’t want to talk about. Person-centered therapy will help you get through expressing those thoughts safely. You won’t finish therapy without having healed and made progress toward achieving your full potential.
Be prepared for your therapist to have a real conversation with you. This is important for you to know. Recovery is not always easy, but it is worth it. The role of a person-centered therapist is to help you figure out why and how to live without substance abuse. Person-centered therapy can also help you:
For many clients, serious changes must occur in their thinking and behavior patterns before they can move away from substance abuse.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a widely used therapeutic approach that focuses on practical results, achieved through cognitive restructuring and behavior modification. Cognitive behavioral therapy has a two-fold focus on correcting flawed patterns of thinking that lead to undesirable behavior and in unlearning unhealthy habits and behaviors and replacing them with healthier behavior. Clients and counselors share the load for treatment under this model, making the client largely responsible for the success of his/her own treatment.
Counselors work with clients to assign and complete specific assignments, some of which are accomplished during individual study time, some during group therapy, and some during individual counseling. Cognitive restructuring happens as assumptions, generalizations, false narratives, and other patterns of self-destructive thinking are challenged. Other assignments give clients the opportunity to practice new patterns of behavior.
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