Childrens Hospital - Community Services
Drug Rehab Center in Wausau, Wisconsin
Childrens Hospital - Community Services is a specialized dual-diagnosis and mental health treatment center in Wausau, Wisconsin that offers personalized treatment plans utilizing cognitive behavioral treatments and accepts private health insurance.
About Childrens Hospital - Community Services in Wisconsin
Childrens Hospital - Community Services offers specialized dual-diagnosis and mental health treatment services in the Wausau, Wisconsin area. One of the few facilities in the region offering this level of care, its team of dedicated professionals work with individuals and families to provide a range of personalized interventions, including couples and family therapy, group therapy, individual therapy, trauma therapy, and dual-diagnosis-focused outpatient treatment (OP). Additionally, the center is proud to accept private health insurance, and is affiliated with the Childrens Service Society of Wisconsin.
The team at Childrens Hospital - Community Services works hard to provide a comfortable and supportive healing environment. With an emphasis on cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) techniques, clients can explore the challenges they face while seeking to overcome them. Furthermore, the facility provides personalized care plans tailored to the individual needs of each patient, helping to ensure an effective and successful treatment journey.
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Conditions and Issues Treated
Individuals who are addicted to drugs and/or alcohol often have one or more co-occurring mental health disorders. Addressing both the addiction and the mental health problems at facilities like Childrens Hospital - Community Services can be very beneficial for these individuals.
Common mental health conditions that often co-occur with addiction include:
- Anxiety Disorders – People with drug and alcohol problems often suffer from anxiety disorders such as panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, social anxiety disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder.
- Depression – One of the most common mental illnesses co-occurring with addiction is major depressive disorder.
- Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) – Many people with drug and alcohol problems also suffer from ADHD.
- Bipolar Disorder – People with bipolar disorder are more likely to suffer from drug and alcohol problems than the general population, and vice versa.
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 treatment can be considered the lowest intensity level of addiction treatment in Wausau, WI. It is ideal for early phase addiction or lower intensity addictions. Childrens Hospital - Community Services peer group support, 12-step programs, and individual counseling are likely to be involved.
Therapies & Programs
Individual therapy is ideal for addicts who want to focus on themselves. It can also be helpful for those whose withdrawal symptoms are exacerbated by the presence of other people.
Benefits of individual therapy are:
- Access to a personalized treatment plan that focuses on the individual needs of the addict
- More privacy during treatment sessions
- Better personal development through introspection
- Increased self-awareness regarding addictive tendencies in order to avoid relapse
- Greater potential for a long-term recovery plan
- Receiving professional advice and detox assistance from medical staff
Couples therapy is a treatment method used to help couples in which at least one member of the couple has a drug addiction. Couples therapy can be used whether the addicted partner is using drugs or in recovery. An additional benefit of couples therapy is that it can help make other types of treatment, such as 12-step programs, more effective.
Family therapy can help you and your family deal with old issues that may trigger substance abuse. The idea behind family therapy for drug addiction is that you are never fully healed from substance abuse until you’ve healed your relationship with your family, too. To get sober, you need to find a different way to cope with the pain in your life.
This is when a group of people in various stages of recovery meet up and discuss their experiences, triggers, successes, failures, and even alternative therapies! Unlike support groups where everyone already knows each other, group therapy is conducted along side outpatient or inpatient treatment at Childrens Hospital - Community Services.
Trauma therapy is a clinical process that helps individuals deal with mental stress often caused by traumatic events. The therapist helps the person identify, understand and work through the problem. This is done with the help of talking about it in group or one-on-one counseling sessions.
Therapists use relaxation, role-playing, art, and music to help the person open up about what is bothering them. Some examples include:
- Talking about the traumatic event and how it affected them.
- Helping those who have PTSD to deal with their nightmares and recurring memories.
- Working with individuals to resolve the issues triggering the stress, whether seeing someone who reminds them of what happened or feeling helpless.
The individual is also encouraged to help others that are struggling with similar problems. This often helps them feel empowered and gives them hope.
Trauma therapy is not for everyone; it is usually reserved for people who have recently experienced a traumatic event and struggle to get over it. It is generally done for children, teenage victims of sexual assault, and war veterans.
CBT is a psychotherapy approach and method. [ws-nap-name] people to examine how their thoughts, including habitual harmful and inaccurate thinking, affect their actions. CBT is based on the idea that rigid, inflexible thinking leads to poor stress management, which leads to emotional distress.
Similarly, CBT helps people identify and change negative behaviors. It makes you question your perceptions and ask if they are realistic. CBT asks people to examine their behaviors and emotional responses and how they affect their lives. CBT aims to change people’s thinking and behavior to lead a more balanced and healthy life.
Moreover, CBT has been shown to reduce anxiety disorders, depression, and symptoms associated with harmful thoughts or actions.
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Wausau, Wisconsin 54401 Phone Number(715) 848-1457 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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705 S 24th Ave
Wausau, WI 54401
(715) 848-1457
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Wausau, Wisconsin Addiction Information
Wisconsin has some of the highest rates in the United States for both adolescent and adult substance abuse. Since 2009, the state has been experiencing the same escalating rates of drug abuse and addiction as the rest of the country. The major concerns are the misuse of prescription painkillers and the escalating number of deaths due to alcohol-related liver disease.
Opioids are the most common cause of drug overdoses in Wausau, Wisconsin. The rate of drug overdoses in Wausau increased by nearly 50% between 2012 and 2017. 19% of drug-related deaths victims are between the ages of 18 and 25. Treatment programs in Wausau follow a specific set of steps that are designed to help people recover from addiction.
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