Columbia Area Mental Health Center - Mental Health Court
Drug Rehab Center in Columbia, South Carolina
Columbia Area Mental Health Center - Mental Health Court provides mental health and substance abuse services with the objective of helping people in the community struggling with addiction and/or mental health issues.
About Columbia Area Mental Health Center - Mental Health Court in South Carolina
Columbia Area Mental Health Center - Mental Health Court is a treatment center located in Columbia, South Carolina that provides mental health, substance abuse, and addiction services. The goal of the Mental Health Court is to create access to mental health and substance abuse services for individuals in the community struggling with addiction and mental health issues. The purpose of the court is to support individuals in finding appropriate treatment, providing access to resources, and offer guidance and support from a court-based team.
The Mental Health Court offers a variety of services for individuals with addiction and substance abuse issues, such as substance abuse counseling, psychiatric evaluation, medication management, case management, and peer support services. Additionally, the court provides crisis intervention to help individuals who are in stressful situations or who have an immediate need for help managing their addiction and mental health symptoms. For those individuals looking for additional support, the court also offers family therapy to help families work through their loved one’s addiction and mental health struggles.
Columbia Area Mental Health Center - Mental Health Court is certified by the South Carolina Department of Mental Health and has earned the national accreditation from CARF International, an international accreditation organization dedicated to ensuring the highest quality of services to individuals. The court also has a team of dedicated and experienced clinicians, who are committed to providing compassionate and comprehensive care for individuals in need of support for their addiction and mental health issues.
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The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is a non-profit organization that specifically accredits rehab organizations. Founded in 1966, CARF's, mission is to help service providers like rehab facilities maintain high standards of care.
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 Columbia Area Mental Health Center - Mental Health Court 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 Columbia, SC. It is ideal for early phase addiction or lower intensity addictions. Columbia Area Mental Health Center - Mental Health Court 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 Columbia Area Mental Health Center - Mental Health Court.
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.
Nutrition therapy has been used to help drug addicts for decades. Many early reports on addiction treatment indicate that some patients recovered from the “satisfying power of food”. For years, this phenomenon has been utilized as a treatment modality in eating disorders for adults, adolescents, and children. Specific nutrients have been identified that influence neurotransmitters associated with reward pathways of the brain.
Studies have shown that carbohydrate loading with complex carbohydrates to elevate serotonin levels was effective in treating bulimia nervosa. This approach prompted researchers to explore the use of this type of nutritional intervention in other disorders.
Nicotine replacement therapy is a drug treatment that allows people to get the effects of nicotine without chewing or smoking. The therapy is often done with a patch, and doses of nicotine are reduced until nicotine is no longer needed. NRT helps smokers get nicotine into their system without resorting to smoking, and it has been shown to be an effective way to help people quit smoking. Coupling NRT with counseling and other means of support gives long-term smokers a better chance of removing their unhealthy habit.
Patient Experience
Experiential Therapy at Columbia Area Mental Health Center - Mental Health Court
Experiential Therapy is a type of therapy that involves activity to recreate situations that may have caused trauma or negative emotions. Experiential therapy at Columbia Area Mental Health Center - Mental Health Court in Columbia, SC can involve acting, props, arts and crafts, animal care or other tools that may be effective. This therapy is done on an individual basis and can help revisit and heal from past traumas. Trust between the therapist and individual is important for success. Experiential therapy can help you more closely become you and move through life positively and authentically.
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Colonial Dr
Columbia, SC 29203
(803) 898-1555
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Columbia, South Carolina Addiction Information
More than 610,000 of South Carolina residents, or a staggering 11.9% of the state population, uses illicit drugs and another 230,000 residents abuse alcohol every year. A majority of the illegal drugs used and abused are opioids. Marijuana use and underage drinking occur amongst the young residents of this state–though at a lower rate compared to the national average.
In Columbia, South Carolina, drug addiction is a major issue. An estimated 9.4 percent of people in Columbia abuse drugs. Additionally, Columbia has a higher rate of overdose deaths than the national average. The most commonly abused drugs are cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, and prescription opioids. There are a variety of drug rehab centers in Columbia, South Carolina. The most common types of treatment are inpatient and outpatient.
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