Child and Family Services
Drug Rehab Center in New Bedford, Massachusetts
Child and Family Services is a comprehensive mental health treatment facility located in New Bedford, MA dedicated to promoting and maintaining mental health through evidence-based treatment services and understanding, compassionate environments.
About This New Bedford, MA Facility
Child and Family Services is a comprehensive mental health treatment facility located in New Bedford, MA. The facility provides both inpatient and outpatient treatments for clients struggling with dual diagnosis, eating disorders, and mental health issues. Their team of counselors, psychiatrists, and licensed clinical social workers provide individual, couples, family, and group therapy, as well as dialectical behavior therapy, experiential therapy, and cognitive behavioral treatment. Additionally, they provide dual-diagnosis and residential long-term care for patients in need of greater care. Child and Family Services understands the importance of comprehensive care, and they accept private health insurance so that their services are accessible to all clients.
Child and Family Services is dedicated to promoting and maintaining mental health. They believe in fostering compassionate and understanding environments, so that their clients feel supported and cared for during their treatment. Their team utilizes evidence-based treatment methods to ensure that their care is effective and successful. Their goal is to provide clients with high quality services that promote positive changes in their thinking, attitudes, and behaviors. Child and Family Services is committed to helping those living in and around New Bedford, MA to find their path to mental health.
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This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
When a patient checks into Child and Family Services, 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.
In outpatient programs at Child and Family Services, the New Bedford resident can live with their family while continuing with their job or studies. Treatment includes educating the patient on drug abuse, medications, and counseling sessions at the individual or group level.
Child and Family Services‘s Therapies & Programs
Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at Child and Family Services. 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 Child and Family Services in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 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 Child and Family Services in New Bedford, MA 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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an improved version of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) DBT is a treatment of choice for people being treated at Child and Family Services whom are suffering from self-harming behaviors. Conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and borderline personality disorder also benefit from DBT.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach and method in psychotherapy. Child and Family Services 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
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Experiential Therapy at Child and Family Services
Experiential therapy at Child and Family Services 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 New Bedford, MA.
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New Bedford, Massachusetts 02740 Phone Number(508) 984-5566 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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543 North St
New Bedford, MA 02740
(508) 984-5566
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New Bedford, Massachusetts Addiction Information
Massachusetts has one of the highest rates of drug abuse in the country. More than half a million Massachusetts residents abuse alcohol while more than 1.5 million use illegal drugs each year. This drug and alcohol usage is the cause of over 8% of all deaths in the state. In 2017, Massachusetts ranked in the top 10 of the states with the highest opioid overdose rates.
4.3% of people in New Bedford, Massachusetts had a substance abuse disorder in 2011-2012 and 3.1% used heroin, up from 1.0% in 2007-2008. There were 393 overdose deaths from heroin out of the 1,977 drug overdose deaths in New Bedford. Substances such as prescription drugs, heroin, methamphetamine, or crack cocaine are common in New Bedford for decades. New Bedford has multiple treatment options available such as inpatient and outpatient programs.
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