Broward Health Medical Center - Behavioral Health
Drug Rehab Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Broward Health Medical Center - Behavioral Health is a top-tier mental health and addiction treatment center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with a personalized and comprehensive range of therapies, cutting-edge treatments, and affiliations with Broward Health Medical Center for short and long-term residential care.
About This Fort Lauderdale, FL Facility
Broward Health Medical Center - Behavioral Health is a top-tier mental health and addiction treatment center located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Their expert staff provides a personalized and comprehensive treatment plan for individuals struggling with dual diagnosis, eating disorder or mental health issues. The team of professionals is dedicated to providing a tailored approach to treatment that includes a range of supportive therapies such as couples therapy, experiential therapy and family therapy. In addition to providing traditional methods of therapy, Broward Health Medical Center - Behavioral Health offers cutting-edge treatments such as nutritional therapy and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT).
At Broward Health Medical Center - Behavioral Health, patients are offered inpatient dual-diagnosis treatment that is designed to provide the highest quality of care. The center is also affiliated with Broward Health Medical Center, providing both short and long-term residential care and recovery. What’s more, the center also accepts health and insurance plans to ensure patients get the treatment they need. With their professional and experienced team, Broward Health Medical Center - Behavioral Health empowers individuals to reach their recovery goals.
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This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
When a patient checks into Broward Health Medical Center - Behavioral Health, inpatient care takes place. Patients undergo treatment that requires detoxification and counseling round the clock. While outpatient treatments are available, as the first phase in recovery, inpatient care is suggested. Intensive and thorough rehabilitation sets patients on the road to a drug-free life.
Broward Health Medical Center - Behavioral Health‘s Therapies & Programs
Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at Broward Health Medical Center - Behavioral Health. This builds a personal and trusting relationship so you can truly be yourself and express any emotions as you feel them. Individual therapy leads to greater peace and understanding about your triggers for addiction and coping strategies to prevent relapse.
Substance abuse does a number on an individual’s relationship with other people, particularly in marriage. Spousal relationships bear the brunt of alcohol and drug dependence. Therefore, it becomes critical to submit the relationship to couples therapy to prevent straining it further. Most programs only zero in on the individual with substance addiction without factoring in the importance of the other half’s emotional support.
However, some facilities, like Broward Health Medical Center - Behavioral Health in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, offer couples therapy options to manage intimate partnerships amid the recovery process. Other couples-focused treatment plans can provide the patient and their partner tools to get things back to normal, support each other, and the patient’s sobriety.Group Therapy is a type of counseling that occurs between a bunch of strangers. These groups are suitable for patients who are not confined in a treatment facility, but group sessions are also common in inpatient rehab programs. Group therapy is led by a trained individual at Broward Health Medical Center - Behavioral Health in Fort Lauderdale, FL and consists of members from different stages of recovery.
The goal of group therapy sessions is to foster hope and a sense of belonging, share information, and learn coping mechanisms. It also helps to have people who can relate to what you’re going through. Good behaviors can also be contagious, and participants can learn from one another.
Unresolved trauma is often a key reason why many patients resorted to substance abuse. Trauma could be physical abuse, sexual abuse, war, natural disasters, divorce, accident, loss of a loved one, etc. If trauma is the primary cause of substance abuse, then both issues must be addressed.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach and method in psychotherapy. Broward Health Medical Center - Behavioral Health asks people to investigate how their thoughts, including habitual, negative, and inaccurate ways of thinking affect behaviors. CBT is based on the idea that rigid, inflexible ways of thinking cause people to have a limited ability to cope with stress
Nutrition therapy, which is also known as Medical nutrition therapy (MNT) involves providing healthy diet and improving the eating habits of the patient. Expert dieticians provide individualized meal plan, that addresses the specific nutritional deficiencies and the nutritional impact associated with the medicines that are given as a part of the treatment. It helps to overcome the food cravings that are seen in certain addictions and also addresses the co-occurring conditions such as eating disorders.
Nutrition therapy is very important to support the different therapies provided as a part of comprehensive care. Nutrition therapy also teaches the associated life skills such as cooking healthy food and grocery shopping.
Nicotine replacement is a way to move towards stopping smoking or using any form of nicotine. This can be nicotine gum or nicotine patches. The process of working with trained staff at Broward Health Medical Center - Behavioral Health in setting a goal quit date, using nicotine replacement and gradually decreasing nicotine intake is proven to help.
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Experiential Therapy at Broward Health Medical Center - Behavioral Health
Experiential therapy at Broward Health Medical Center - Behavioral Health includes helping people work through emotional disorders by participating in events in real-time. It moves away from conventional talk therapy to discuss their concerns and emotions by making patients play roles or use props. It allows people to handle trauma and feelings healthily, reducing the need to resort to alcohol and substances in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
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1600 S Andrews Ave
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316
+1 954-355-4400
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida Addiction Information
Florida is one of the nation's epicenters for substance abuse and drug-related overdoses. In 2014, around 410,000 Florida residents were addicted to drugs and alcohol. Over the last 10 years, 12% of all deaths in the state were attributed to substance abuse. Treatment admissions for alcohol reached 24,329 patients in 2016, and 2.5% of Florida high school students admitted to using crack cocaine.
In 2017, there were 200 deaths due to drug overdoses in Broward County, including Fort Lauderdale. This was a significant increase from the 155 deaths that occurred in 2016. Approximately 21% of people aged 12 or older with an AUD also had a SUD. Drug addiction is a severe problem that can lead to crime, violence, and other social issues.
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