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Edgewood Center for Children and Families

Edgewood Center for Children and Families

Drug Rehab Center in San Carlos, California

  • Mental Health
  • Dual Diagnosis

Edgewood Center for Children and Families is a reputable addiction rehab facility located in San Carlos that specializes in treating dual diagnosis and mental health issues, offering personalized treatment plans and holistic healing approaches while accepting private health insurance.

About This California Facility

Edgewood Center for Children and Families is a well-established healthcare provider located in San Carlos, California. Founded in 1851, this organization focuses on providing specialized care for people suffering from Dual-Diagnosis or Mental Health issues. Their approaches are tailored to each patient, with treatments at varying degrees that range from Group Therapy to Residential Long-Term. Treatment plans are designed to improve patient quality of life, and services are offered by a team of in-house experts, who are supported by a network of clinicians, peer mentors, and educators.

The Edgewood Center accepts Private Health Insurance, making it more accessible to those who may not have other forms of payment. They also have experienced therapists who specialize in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Trauma Therapy. The center also offers Family and Couples Therapy, Experiential Therapy, and Individual Therapy, allowing flexibility when it comes to creating therapeutic plans. All sessions are conducted in a safe and secure environment, making it easy for both new and existing patients to feel more comfortable receiving treatment.

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
  • Conditions and Issues Treated

    When someone in California 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.

    Dual Diagnosis (Co-Occuring Disorders), Mental Health 

    Levels of Care Offered at Edgewood Center for Children and Families

    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 rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into Edgewood Center for Children and Families 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 Edgewood Center for Children and Families in recovering from addiction.

    Therapies & Programs

    Individual therapy involves one on one sessions between the patient and the therapist at Edgewood Center for Children and Families. Individual therapy provides patients with a safe environment where they can openly discuss their problems with the therapist. The patients find the therapist as a person who they can trust. It helps them to open up and discuss personal and sensitive issues, which they may not be comfortable discussing in a group setting.

    Individual therapy aims to identify the core issues that would have led the patient to substance abuse and address the root cause effectively. The therapist can develop patient-specific customized solutions through individual therapy, which aids speedier recovery.

    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 Edgewood Center for Children and Families helps repair the damage done to these important relationships.

    Recovery can be more effective if the entire family’s involved. Family therapy hosted by Edgewood Center for Children and Families 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 Edgewood Center for Children and Families in San Carlos, California, 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. Edgewood Center for Children and Families 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 Edgewood Center for Children and Families in San Carlos, California the strength to realize they were self-destructing, allowing them to finally reach out and get the help they need.

    Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT), Couples Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Dual-Diagnosis, Experiential Therapy, Family Therapy, Group Therapy, Individual Therapy, Outpatient Treatment (OP), Residential Long Term (>30 Days), Trauma Therapy

    Patient Experience

    Experiential Therapy at Edgewood Center for Children and Families

    Experiential therapy involves recreating or creating new experiences for the patient. Many people struggled with past issues such as memories or trauma. By creating a new experience, it allows people to work through the issues associated with those moments in a new experience. This can give them a new measure of control and can help them role play a new scenario. That can help push addiction into their past and help them begin the healing process.

    Payment Options Accepted

    For specific insurance or payment methods please contact us.
  • Health Insurance
  • Self-Pay / Cash
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Military Insurance
  • IHS/Tribunal/Urban
  • State-Financed
  • Sliding Scale
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    Additional Details

    Specifics, location, and helpful extra information.
    Edgewood Center for Children and Families Location and Directions
    Address Information957 Industrial Rd
    San Carlos, California 94070 Phone Number(650) 832-6900 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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    San Carlos, California Addiction Information

    More than 3 million of California's citizens are addicted to illegal drugs. Almost 800,000 people use hard drugs, almost 5 million use marijuana, and another 2.1 million abuse alcohol every year. Other substance abuse issues such as binge drinking and teen drug use are also common. Many illegal drugs such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana are smuggled into the state from Mexico.

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