Integrated Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers
Foundations Associates' treatment programs were founded on a simple dedication to improving the lives of persons with co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders. By tailoring services to treat both disorders simultaneously, our clients are achieving results that transcend the limitations of traditional treatments.
As an emerging specialist in integrated treatment, Foundations has acquired four comprehensive alcohol and drug treatment centers : La Paloma Treatment Center in Memphis, Tenn., Michael's House in Palm Springs, Calif., The Canyon in Malibu, Calif., and Alta Mira in Sausalito, Calif. Our implemented programs are designed to address the needs of both middle income/private insurance clients and high-end executive clients. Combined, we offer approximately 200 residential beds distinguishing us nationally as the premier integrated treatment provider of co-occurring addiction treatment.
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Dual Diagnosis Addiction Treatment Model
and rehab programs:
- Adopt major characteristics of proven mental health and substance abuse treatment methods
- Pairs these characteristics with components of integrated treatment including:
- Motivational enhancement
- Readiness to change approaches
- Counseling/Support
- Long-term and comprehensive interventions
- Federally published best practice recommendations on co-occurring conditions
- Two nominations for the American Psychological Associations' "Gold Award"
- Selection by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors as one of seven integrated agencies in the country for an on-site study
- Selection for study by the Concurrent Disorders Priority Area of the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada as one of the 10 North American evidence-based treatment models for co-occurrence treatment
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The Canyon
The Canyon is our residential treatment center situated in a large, private and secluded canyon within the Malibu Hills. Offering primary care treatment, extended care and also transitional/sober living, The Canyon is an ideal choice for specialized care combined with luxurious accommodations. For more information about The Canyon please visit the website.
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ARISE Model Invitational Intervention Training - Southeast
July, 16, 2008ARISE model (A Relational Intervention Sequence for Engagement) is a three-level method designed to respond to the interest and concern of family members and others to motivate a resistant substance abuser or individual with behavioral problems to enter into treatment.
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Dual Diagnosis: An Overview
Dual Diagnosis: An Overview Research and study of the brain is beginning to unlock the mystery of dual disorders. For years the psychiatric field has either ignored dual diagnosis (a dual diagnosis was impossible prior to DSM III due to exclusionary criteria and DSM I & II forbidding' multiple diagnoses), or treated personality as the underlying cause of substance abuse.' The addiction field believed abstinence from mood altering drugs would cause the psychiatric symptoms to disappear. Research has not found a...
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Co-Occuring Disorders
Co-occurring mental health conditions and substance use disorders affect nearly 14 million Americans each year. Of those only 19% receive appropriate treatment, with the vast majority bounced among treatment systems with different and opposing treatment structures. Few drug treatment centers specialize in treating complex co-occurring disorders. Nationally, research continues to reveal that people with co-occurring disorders need a specialized form of treatment, referred to as integrated services or dual diagnosis treatment.
Mental health treatment and addiction treatment have historically and continue to be separated systems of care. While many research studies have been performed on mental health and addictions separately, it has only been within recent years that studies have emerged on people who struggle with both conditions in tandem. This emerging research identifies that traditional separated systems of care not only alienate the consumer from treatment, but they also result in much poorer outcomes that those experienced by people with single disorders. More surprising, we are now learning from these studies that programs predominantly designed to treat a specific disorder are actually only capable of treating the minority of those in need ? where, in fact, up to 65.5% of people with a substance dependence disorder had at least one mental disorder and 51% of people with a mental disorder had at least one substance abuse disorder. We are also increasingly learning that these poorer outcomes result as much from these separate and contradictory systems of care as from the diagnoses themselves ? with people who have co-occurring conditions comprising the majority of the 10 percent of people using over 70 percent of the nation?s healthcare resources. There are now more than 14 million people in the U.S. with co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders.
Foundations Model Of Addiction Treatment
Our success stems from our ability to offer highly effective clinical services that are not based on historical confrontational approaches that drive consumers away from treatment. Combining our research based innovations with emerging evidence based practices, we offer some of the lowest drop out rates in the industry - meaning that clients remain engaged in our services. Through comprehensive outcomes data on clients six and twelve months after program discharge, a 3-year SAMHSA-funded evaluation of Foundations Associates' residential program indicated abstinence in 70-80 percent of Foundations' clients up to 1 year following treatment. Severity of psychiatric symptoms was reduced by 60 percent, with corresponding improvements in quality of life. Our results suggest that the model of integrated and continuous treatment breaks the repetitive cycle of traditional separate systems of care for people with co-occurring conditions. We attribute this to our practices of:
- Motivational Approaches that engage clients and retain clients in services. We train clinical staff to use motivational enhancement strategies, a field tested method of implementing client directed services that maximizes client engagement and avoids use of historical confrontational strategies
- Integrated Treatment where all behavioral health and addictions needs can be addressed in one setting, with a team of experts including psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and licensed alcohol and drug counselors
- Trained Staff who are taught to deliver evidence based practices of care through classroom and applied studies.
- Client Recovery Workbook Series, a proprietary product developed by us based upon evidence based practices and our own experiences in treatment. Providing clients with comprehensive integrated information about how to maximize their recovery experience
- Client Directed Treatment where clients are encouraged to determine the pace, goals, and course of treatment and are treated as partners in, rather than subjects of, the recovery process.
