MHS - Family Forces
Drug Rehab Center in Escondido, California
- Mental Health
MHS - Family Forces is an addiction treatment center located in Escondido, California, providing outpatient-level care for people with mental health issues, taking both private health insurance and self-pay.
About This California Facility
Mental Health Systems (MHS): Family Forces is an Escondido, CA based organization that provides mental health treatment and aftercare services to individuals and their families. It was founded in 1978, and offers a variety of levels of care, including outpatient and aftercare support. MHS specializes in treating a wide range of mental health issues, from depression and anxiety to substance abuse and addiction. Treatments include Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), experiential therapies, family, group and individual therapy, life skills, and aftercare. MHS also offers residential long-term treatment for more serious cases and accepts private health insurance.
MHS- Family Forces strives to provide quality treatment for individuals and families navigating mental health issues and substance abuse. The organization’s commitment to providing the highest standard of care reflects its forty-plus-year history in the field of mental health. Their team of highly-trained and dedicated specialists combine evidence-based treatments with compassionate care, to help each person on their journey to recovery. MHS- Family Forces continues to be an invaluable resource in Escondido, and remains committed to providing the highest quality services in the region.
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Levels of Care Offered at MHS - Family Forces
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
In outpatient programs at MHS - Family Forces, the Escondido 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.
Treatment is just the first step to maintaining sobriety. After treatment, aftercare support at MHS - Family Forces helps the individual adjust to a life without substances. This support may involve a sober living home in or near Escondido, CA, career counseling, or educational assistance. This is when a relapse prevention plan begins to take shape.
Therapies & Programs
Individual therapy involves one on one sessions between the patient and the therapist at MHS - Family Forces. 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.
Recovery can be more effective if the entire family’s involved. Family therapy hosted by MHS - Family Forces 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.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It is designed for those who are prone to self-harm and suicidal behaviors. MHS - Family Forces 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.
Rehabilitation is not just limited to bringing an individual out of addiction and achieving sobriety. It is considered complete only when an individual starts leading a normal and balanced life. Life skill therapy focuses on the various skills that helps an individual to lead a normal life. Patients often do not take care of themselves, struggle professionally and withdraw from social interaction due to the physical and emotional disturbances caused by addiction.
Life skills therapy helps them to improve various personal, professional and social skills such as cooking healthy meals, maintaining proper hygiene, budgeting, decision making, time management, regulation of emotions and resolving the interpersonal conflicts effectively.
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Experiential Therapy at MHS - Family Forces
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.
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Escondido, California 92025 Phone Number(760) 747-0205 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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Escondido, 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.
Escondido, CA, in particular, has an alarming number of drug-related deaths which can be attributed to the drug cartels that operate out of Mexico. Escondido has 6,741 admissions to drug and alcohol rehab facilities in 2016. This means that drug addiction and abuse are major problems in the community and that many people need help getting sober. Some of the most common treatments include inpatient and outpatient rehab, 12-step programs, and therapy.
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