Aleks House - Lanham Outpatient
Drug Rehab Center in Lanham, Maryland
- Mental Health
- Dual Diagnosis
Aleks House - Lanham Outpatient is a mental health treatment facility in Maryland that provides a wide range of care options, including dual diagnosis and residential long term care, with a multidisciplinary team experienced in treating mental health challenges and accepting private health insurance.
About This Lanham, MD Facility
Aleks House - Lanham Outpatient is a mental health treatment facility founded in 2002 in Lanham, Maryland. They specialize in addressing dual diagnosis and other mental health issues. They provide a spectrum of care options including dual-diagnosis, outpatient, couples therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, experiential therapy, family therapy, group therapy, individual therapy, trauma therapy, cognitive behavioral treatment, and residential long term care for more than 30 days.
At Aleks House - Lanham Outpatient, they strive to provide quality, evidence-based care in a supportive environment. Their multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals is experienced in treating a myriad of mental health challenges, and they take pride in providing personalized and comprehensive treatment plans to meet the needs of each individual. They also accept private health insurance, making it easier for those who need mental health care to access it. Affiliated with Aleks House, they also have access to additional resources, ensuring that the best possible care is provided to their patients.
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Conditions and Issues Treated
Conditions such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder are part of mental illness. This may occur that opioid abuse and vice versa are induced by mental illness. Diagnosing a concurrent diagnosis or co-occurring condition at Aleks House - Lanham Outpatient is essential to understand the addiction better.
Levels of Care Offered
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Dual-Diagnosis, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Outpatient programs are the standard for addiction treatment. About 9 in 10 U.S. adolescents entering addiction treatment enroll in these programs, so you’re not alone in Lanham, MD. Treatment is delivered in different settings – offices, clinics, and primary care clinics.
Facilities offer a variety of services, such as individual and group counseling and family therapy. During the sessions, you work with a team of experts that include: General physicians, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, and Psychologists. The main goals of outpatient recovery programs are to help addicted individuals reduce drug use and addictive behaviors, eventually becoming entirely sober.
Aleks House - Lanham Outpatient‘s Therapies & Programs
In addiction recovery at Aleks House - Lanham Outpatient, therapy plays a significant role. This helps patients get to the root of their addiction and discover how the problems that contributed to their use can be handled better. Therapy can be performed in a group and one on one settings. The patient interacts with the therapist in a one-on-one atmosphere during individual therapy. This encourages them to reflect on the underlying addiction problems and develop ways to avoid potential future abuse.
Recovering from addiction involves recovering relationships as well. One of the most common areas of stress and damage during addiction is in intimate relationships. Couples therapy at Aleks House - Lanham Outpatient can rebuild trust and joy that may have been damaged. Addiction involves everyone in the family, not only the addict.
Family roles can change in damaging ways that may require professional help to rebalance. Successful intimate relationships can decrease the chances for relapse by ensuring a healthy environment after rehab in Lanham, MD.
Addiction and alcoholism affect the entire family. For this reason, family therapy is vital to a person’s recovery from addiction. In contrast to couples counseling, family therapy at Aleks House - Lanham Outpatient may include siblings, children, parents, and other significant people in the recovering person’s life. Family support is one of the most important pillars of recovery.
Many people turn to drugs and alcohol as a way of processing trauma that has affected them in the past. Trauma can include abuse, neglect, the loss of a loved one and other unpleasant incidents. Trauma therapy at Aleks House - Lanham Outpatient helps patients process trauma. It gives them the tools to deal with it in a healthier manner.
Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is a type of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that focuses on eliminating specific negative thoughts such as suicidal thoughts that can potentially lead to an individual inflicting self-harm. It is useful in the treatment of patients exhibiting uncontrollable emotions, intense mood swings, and borderline personality disorders.
The term “Dialectic” means the integration of opposites. In the substance abuse context, DBT refers to accepting the patient’s addiction and working to change their thoughts and behavior. It improves life skills such as controlling the intense emotions without reacting impulsively, resolving the interpersonal conflicts effectively, and promoting awareness about self and others.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines the relationship between a patient’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Aleks House - Lanham Outpatient aims to establish a healthy response to thoughts and feelings as an alternative to turning to drugs and alcohol. It also promotes healthy communication between addicts and those around them. It is and effective therapy for people suffering with all types of addictions.
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Experiential Therapy at Aleks House - Lanham Outpatient
Experential therapy is a unique type of therapy that deals with the subconscious mind. This treatment available at Aleks House - Lanham Outpatient in Lanham, MD encourages individuals to work out their issues with their inner self through synchronous experiences.
This non-traditional treatment method makes use of the physique and encourages people to take part in various physical and emotional activities, movements, and practices. Some of the most common examples of experiential therapy are equine therapy, music therapy, adventure therapy, and role playing. Through these various methods, an individual is believed to heal from trauma, negative emotions, and hurtful memories faster. Moreover, experiential therapy is known to have enduring results which can be beneficial to sufferers.
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Lanham, Maryland 20706 Phone Number(301) 429-6100 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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Lanham, Maryland Addiction Information
For the past decade, Maryland's rate of drug use and abuse has significantly increased. The overdose rate is currently higher than the national average. This epidemic is due to the many industries where manual labor is required. As soon as prescription opioids were more readily accessible a large part of manual workers started using–and eventually abusing–the painkillers.
More than 6% of Lanham's population struggles with addiction to drugs or alcohol. Opioid-based prescription drug abuse is the most common cause of drug overdose deaths. In 2016, around 9% of teens in Lanham reported using an illicit drug within a month before taking a survey. Marijuana was the most commonly used illicit drug by teens. The FDA has moved to limit the supply of opiate-based prescriptions to curb addiction.
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