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Crittenton Childrens Center - Outpatient

Drug Rehab Center in Kansas City, Missouri

  • Substance Abuse
  • Opioid Addiction
  • Dual Diagnosis
  • Drug Addiction
  • Alcoholism

Crittenton Children’s Center - Outpatient in Kansas City offers comprehensive treatment services for mental illness and substance abuse, including individual, family, and group therapies, as well as assessments, medication management, and aftercare support.

About This Missouri Facility

Crittenton Children's Center, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is a mental and behavioral health care facility dedicated to serving children, adolescents, and families. They offer a comprehensive range of services, including inpatient and outpatient programs for children and adolescents ages 4-18, as well as residential treatment for those ages 12-18.

• Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) helps teens and young adults address their psychological and social needs through 10 hours of weekly individual, family, and group counseling sessions.
• General Outpatient Program (OP) is designed for adolescents in addiction recovery, providing a less intensive level of care.
• Outpatient services include psychiatric evaluation, medication management, psychological testing, psychotherapy, and evidence-based care plans.
• Residential treatment is available for children ages 12-18 who require a more structured and supportive environment.

Crittenton Children's Center is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), ensuring high-quality care and patient safety. They work with major insurance providers, such as Aetna, BlueCross BlueShield, Humana, and United Healthcare, but it is important to contact your provider to verify coverage and out-of-network benefits.

The facility treats a wide range of mental health issues and substance abuse disorders, with a primary focus on addiction treatment for adolescents. They employ evidence-based treatment methods, including individual, family, and group therapies, comprehensive assessments, medication management, and aftercare support.

Crittenton Children's Center aims to create a supportive environment that promotes long-term recovery by providing compassionate care tailored to each individual's needs. Their multidisciplinary team works together to develop personalized treatment plans that address the unique challenges faced by youth and families affected by mental illness and substance abuse.

Genders
  • Male
  • Female
  • Gender Exclusive Center
  • Ages
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Adults
  • Seniors (65+)
  • Modality
  • Individuals
  • Couples
  • Family
  • Groups
  • Additional
  • LGBTQ+ Allied
  • Hearing Impaired
  • Veteran Specific
  • LGBTQ+ Allied
  • Accreditations

    JCAHO

    Conditions and Issues Treated

    The inappropriate use of any drug in Kansas City, MO is substance abuse. This involves alcohol, medications, and illicit drugs. With a combination of physical and psychiatric therapies, drug addiction is successfully treated at Crittenton Childrens Center - Outpatient. After Detox is complete, individuals follow-up with treatments treating the root cause of the addiction.

    Opioid Addiction Treatment supports people recovering from addiction to prescription drugs as well as illegal opioids. This is a hospital-based or residential treatment. Depending upon one’s age, detox without the appropriate medication may be unpleasant or even dangerous–some get body aches, fever, chills, while others may even have seizures.

    Opioid treatment involves medically assisted detox, physical and mental support. Most rehabilitations use an array of treatments to ensure overall wellbeing, such as Medication-assisted therapy (MAT) in which one gets behavioral therapy, medicines, and counseling. A client-centered approach can reduce one’s chances of relapse. Therapists at work with the client to figure out environmental and behavioral triggers, giving them the power to change the patterns.

    When someone in Missouri struggles with both addiction and mental or emotional illness, this is considered a dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis treatment can include emotional trauma, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression. Getting treatment for these issues must occur at the same time to treat either of them effectively.

    Levels of Care Offered at Crittenton Childrens Center - Outpatient

    This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Detox, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, Residential, with additional therapies available as listed below.

    Detoxification is a reduction in the effects of drugs and alcohol. It can be beneficial for people who have a history of withdrawal, who are at risk for dangerous health concerns, or who are unable to function well in their day-to-day lives due to addiction.

    Detoxification is beneficial for:
    • People who are unable to overcome addiction without the help of professional care.
    • People who are at risk for dangerous health conditions due to withdrawal.
    • People who are at risk for overdose or serious health concerns after a relapse.

    If you believe that addiction treatment is right for you or a loved one, you can contact your primary care physician, or search for addiction treatment centers in your area. Treatment is beneficial to people who are motivated towards recovery, and who understand the benefits of professional care.

    An inpatient is a person who stays in a hospital or rehab center during treatment. For alcohol- and drug-dependent individuals, inpatient rehabs provide individualized around-the-clock services. Inpatient treatment programs address a person’s unique physical, medical, and psychological needs. A team of experts assess the severity of the addiction and design a highly tailored program. typically, the length of stay in an inpatient facility in Kansas City, MO is 30 days. Those with severe addiction may need to stay at the facility for 60 to 90 days.

    Daily trips to the hospital that provides the treatment include intensive outpatient services (IOP). IOP in Missouri is appropriate for patients in residential recovery facilities that have been diagnosed with addiction. Patients return to their everyday lives gradually, increasing the likeliness of success in treatment.

    Outpatient rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into Crittenton Childrens Center - Outpatient long term. In addition to helping them recover, the patient attends regular therapy sessions and detox and participates in other therapies. However, this is all primarily done from home. As a follow-up to inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment is usually recommended.

    After rehabilitation, it helps people return to their everyday lives. It may also be an alternative to inpatient care in some situations. If they cannot leave their jobs, children, or don’t have the money for inpatient care, people can choose this method. Inpatient therapy, however, is the best method and most suggested level of treatment offered by Crittenton Childrens Center - Outpatient in recovering from addiction.

    Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient’s individual requirements.

    Treatment for substance abuse does not cease after an individual successfully completes a detox or rehabilitation program. A vital follow-up treatment service is aftercare support provided to individuals at Crittenton Childrens Center - Outpatient in Missouri after they attain initial sobriety.

    Aftercare support often takes the following forms: 12-Step Programs, Outpatient Treatment Programs, and Support Groups. The most effective aftercare programs are tailored to meet an individual’s specific needs and circumstances.

    Therapies & Programs

    Addiction and alcoholism always harm an addict’s relationships with others and none more than relationships with a spouse or partner. Couples therapy is an essential part of restoring trust and good communication to intimate relationships harmed by addiction. Couples therapy by Crittenton Childrens Center - Outpatient helps repair the damage done to these important relationships.

    Recovery can be more effective if the entire family’s involved. Family therapy hosted by Crittenton Childrens Center - Outpatient brings in the addict’s family to explore genetic factors. It gives loved ones the tools for dealing with addiction and its underlying mental issues. It is a recommended step in helping addicts adapt to sober living.

    Group therapy is an important tool in recovery. Addiction tends to lead to isolation and feelings of uniqueness. Accountability and friendship that is found in group therapy can be more effective than any single other treatment approach. With Crittenton Childrens Center - Outpatient in Kansas City, Missouri, there’s no reason to go through recovery alone.

    Trauma is one of the most common causes of psychological disorders. It’s often found in people with addiction diagnoses. Trauma therapy addresses this by examining the emotions and thoughts people have formed due to past traumas. Traumas are complex but trauma therapy can reduce their ability to contribute to addictive behaviors.

    Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It is designed for those who are prone to self-harm and suicidal behaviors. Crittenton Childrens Center - Outpatient aims to help patients understand the relationship between their thoughts, feeling and behaviors and it gives them the tools to make a change. It is effective for those whose addictions and behaviors stem from extreme mental health issues.

    Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on the connection between how someone feels, acts, and thinks. It shows someone how to accept responsibility for their behaviors and actions, while also strengthening a person’s awareness of the circumstances they put themselves into. It can give people attending Crittenton Childrens Center - Outpatient in Kansas City, Missouri the strength to realize they were self-destructing, allowing them to finally reach out and get the help they need.

    Self-defeating thoughts and habits can limit your possible successes. Some examples of this are procrastination, unhealthy eating and angry outbursts. REBT is a method of specific counseling offered by Crittenton Childrens Center - Outpatient that replaces negative and self-limiting thoughts.

    A 12-Step Program is a common method that is used to treat addiction. This format is used for both drug and alcohol treatment. It is extremely popular and successful for large numbers of people and the staff at Crittenton Childrens Center - Outpatient are trained to assist in 12-step management.

    Contingency Management (CM), also known as motivational incentives or prize method, is a behavioral therapy type. It is based on the principle that their consequences influence the behaviors of an individual. So, it promotes the desired behavior by giving rewards while discouraging the unwanted behaviors by withholding the rewards or even by giving punishments. One of the expected desired behavior is the absence of drug in a toxicology screen, and the rewards vary from prize or vouchers, to experiences. CM is used for individuals who need therapy for more than 3 months, and it has the advantage of being implemented by family members.

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    Crittenton Childrens Center - Outpatient Location and Directions
    Address Information10918 Elm Ave
    Kansas City, Missouri 64134 Phone Number(816) 765-6600 Meta DetailsUpdated April 15, 2024
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    Kansas City, Missouri Addiction Information

    Opioid-related overdoses in Missouri have been increasing steadily for the past three decades. In 2018, more than 1,130 people in Missouri died from opioid abuse. Methamphetamines and marijuana abuse have surpassed opioid abuse in Missouri. Missouri is the number 1 methamphetamine manufacturer in the country with more than 27 meth labs per 100,000 people.

    In Kansas City, Missouri, in 2016, there were 97 drug overdose deaths. There were 438 drug-related deaths in Kansas City in 2017, and that number is expected to rise in 2018. Drug addiction not only takes a toll on the individual but the entire community. Kansas City, MO, offers various drug treatment options for those looking to get sober. People who require around-the-clock assistance can enroll in these programs.

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