Northeast Iowa Mental Health Center
Drug Rehab Center in Elkader, Iowa
The Northeast Iowa Mental Health Center provides a variety of individualized mental health services and addiction/substance abuse treatment, including counseling, therapy, harm reduction, and relapse prevention, working collaboratively with other medical and social service providers to ensure comprehensive care, and has received numerous accolades for their outstanding achievements in the field.
About Northeast Iowa Mental Health Center in Iowa
Northeast Iowa Mental Health Center, in Elkader, Iowa, provides a variety of mental health services to those who live or work in the area. Founded in 1962, the facility offers a range of programs and services such to support the community, including addiction and substance abuse treatment. Northeast Iowa Mental Health Center works with clients to create an individualized approach to treatment, combining psychological and holistic approaches.
Northeast Iowa Mental Health Center offers a range of services to treat and prevent addiction and substance abuse. They provide compassionate counseling and therapy to those struggling with substance abuse, as well as family and group counseling to aid understanding. They also provide education and counseling on harm reduction, relapse prevention, and support to those in recovery. The center works collaboratively with other medical and social service providers to ensure comprehensive care and support.
Northeast Iowa Mental Health Center is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). The center is also fully licensed by the State of Iowa Department of Human Services and is a member of the Iowa Association of Community Providers. Northeast Iowa Mental Health Center was recently honored with the 2017 Iowa Governor’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery. They strive to create a safe and supportive environment, and to provide meaningful recovery services to those in need.
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Conditions and Issues Treated
Dual diagnosis refers to someone who has both an addiction and a mental or emotional illness. Dual diagnosis treatment includes therapy for both issues simultaneously, allowing for effective treatment of either.
Sometimes people with addiction disorders also have co-occurring disorders like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, etc. These require specialized treatment programs that address both drug and alcohol addiction as well as psychiatric illnesses. Some rehabilitation facilities provide patients with co-occurring disorders a program with highly integrated services and a clean, distraction-free environment.
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.
Alcohol or drug addiction, or co-occurring disorders, are treated in an outpatient program. The patient must attend therapy and other programs at the facility but can return home each night.
Outpatient treatment allows recovering addicts to live at home while receiving addiction treatment. Outpatients can attend group sessions for a few hours per week. Outpatients may also continue to work full time and study/attend school without interruption if they choose.
Therapies & Programs
Different people react differently to various treatment options. Some drug rehabilitation centers offer individualized treatment that caters to the specific needs of a drug addict. The best treatment option varies on an individual depending on the type of drug abused, life history, medical condition of the person, social circumstances, and the environment they live in now.
When a person enters drug rehab, they usually have anti-drug associations such as withdrawal symptoms, stress, cravings, etc. The first step of drug rehab is to detoxify the body from any residual substances in it. Drug rehabilitation centers usually employ trained medical professionals to help in this process. Usually, the initial detoxification lasts for five days, where the person is monitored under close supervision.
Couples therapy is a treatment method used to help couples in which at least one member of the couple has a drug addiction. The treatment is designed to help the couple strengthen their relationship to minimize the effects of drug addiction on their lives and promote healthy communication between them.
Couples therapy can be used whether the addicted partner is using drugs or in recovery. It helps the couple create healthy communication and coping skills to minimize the problem-solving abilities of one partner, which can then be directed at solving issues related to their addiction. It also helps couples address problems that may be related to drug addiction. Couples therapy can help couples feel like a team and not feel like their partner is the problem.
Couples therapy is very challenging for both the drug addict and their partner. It requires an intense commitment between the two individuals to participate in the sessions and the homework assigned between sessions.
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 sessions typically involve the addict and their family members. During these sessions, a therapist will work with everyone involved to help them understand addiction and find healthy ways of coping without substance abuse.
Some addicts might feel embarrassed about their substance abuse problems. By encouraging family members to attend these sessions, therapists can show addicts that they’re not alone in dealing with addiction. Therapists can also work with family members to help them understand addiction and learn how to offer support and encouragement to their loved one as they deal with substance abuse issues.
Attending group therapy at Northeast Iowa Mental Health Center in , is a useful way for those seeking sobriety to realize they aren’t the only one going through it.
This is when a group of people on different recovery phases get together and talk about what they’re going through, their triggers, successes, and failures. This can include alternative types of therapies too! Group therapy may occur on an outpatient or inpatient basis with groups that have no pre-existing relationships outside the session, unlike support groups where everyone already knows each other beforehand.
This type of cognitive-behavioral therapy helps people understand how their thoughts, behaviors, and feelings are interconnected. It can help patients with borderline personality disorder gain control over their actions and stop self-harming thoughts and attempts.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a type of psychotherapy that helps people address the thoughts and behaviors that may have led to their addiction. It also helps change negative thoughts into positive ones and promotes healthy communication between addicts and those around them. CBT is an efficient treatment for individuals suffering from all sorts of addictions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the underlying thoughts and behaviors that caused the problem of addiction in the first place and may cause a relapse. Negative feelings are common in drug abuse disorders, but they can lead to co-occurring disorders if not recognized. CBT involves strategies that help to change the behavior pattern by restructuring negative thoughts into positive ones. It helps to remove these feelings, and it provides long-term benefits. Also, CBT promotes self-awareness, self-control and can be administered as a mono-therapy or as part of combination therapy.
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Elkader, Iowa 52043 Phone Number(563) 382-3649 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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911 Carter Street NW
Elkader, IA 52043
(563) 382-3649
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Elkader, Iowa Addiction Information
Iowa ranks 2nd lowest in the nation for illicit drug use, but 12% of its residents are still using these drugs every single year. Methamphetamines account for more than 90% of all drug-related prison admissions in Iowa. Alcohol is the most widely abused substance in the state, with 23% of residents admitting to heavy drinking.
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