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Riverside Community Care

Drug Rehab Center in Wakefield, Massachusetts

  • Mental Health
  • Dual Diagnosis

Riverside Community Care offers a variety of evidence-based treatments and services, including DBT, Experiential Therapy, Nutrition Therapy, Trauma Therapy, CBT, OP, and Residential Long Term treatment, to help individuals with complex mental health challenges in Wakefield, MA.

About This Wakefield, MA Facility

Riverside Community Care is a healthcare provider offering an array of dual diagnosis and mental health services for individuals in Wakefield, MA. Experienced staff members assist individuals in identifying and addressing complex mental health challenges. The center provides a comprehensive range of evidence-based interventions to help patients successfully manage and improve their mental health.

Riverside Community Care provides a spectrum of treatments, including Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Experiential Therapy and Group Therapy. These modalities are complemented by Nutrition Therapy and Trauma Therapy. Additionally, patients will have access to Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) and Outpatient Treatment (OP). For those facing long-term challenges, Riverside Community Care also offers Residential Long Term (>30 Days) treatment. With these offerings, individuals can identify root causes of their mental health issues and gain the support needed to build healthier and more satisfying lives.

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

    Some of the most common co-occurring disorders are schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder. Most rehab facilities in Wakefield, MA like Riverside Community Care provide patients with a dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis gives rehab the means to treat addiction while restoring mental and emotional health.

    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 rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into Riverside Community Care 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 Riverside Community Care in recovering from addiction.

    Riverside Community Care‘s Therapies & Programs

    Group Therapy is a type of counseling that occurs between a bunch of strangers. These groups are suitable for patients who are not confined in a treatment facility, but group sessions are also common in inpatient rehab programs. Group therapy is led by a trained individual at Riverside Community Care in Wakefield, MA and consists of members from different stages of recovery.

    The goal of group therapy sessions is to foster hope and a sense of belonging, share information, and learn coping mechanisms. It also helps to have people who can relate to what you’re going through. Good behaviors can also be contagious, and participants can learn from one another.

    Unresolved trauma is often a key reason why many patients resorted to substance abuse. Trauma could be physical abuse, sexual abuse, war, natural disasters, divorce, accident, loss of a loved one, etc. If trauma is the primary cause of substance abuse, then both issues must be addressed.

    Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an improved version of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) DBT is a treatment of choice for people being treated at Riverside Community Care whom are suffering from self-harming behaviors. Conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and borderline personality disorder also benefit from DBT.

    Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach and method in psychotherapy. Riverside Community Care asks people to investigate how their thoughts, including habitual, negative, and inaccurate ways of thinking affect behaviors. CBT is based on the idea that rigid, inflexible ways of thinking cause people to have a limited ability to cope with stress

    Nutrition therapy, which is also known as Medical nutrition therapy (MNT) involves providing healthy diet and improving the eating habits of the patient. Expert dieticians provide individualized meal plan, that addresses the specific nutritional deficiencies and the nutritional impact associated with the medicines that are given as a part of the treatment. It helps to overcome the food cravings that are seen in certain addictions and also addresses the co-occurring conditions such as eating disorders.

    Nutrition therapy is very important to support the different therapies provided as a part of comprehensive care. Nutrition therapy also teaches the associated life skills such as cooking healthy food and grocery shopping.

    Nicotine replacement is a way to move towards stopping smoking or using any form of nicotine. This can be nicotine gum or nicotine patches. The process of working with trained staff at Riverside Community Care in setting a goal quit date, using nicotine replacement and gradually decreasing nicotine intake is proven to help.

    Patient Experience

    Experiential Therapy at Riverside Community Care

    Experiential therapy at Riverside Community Care includes helping people work through emotional disorders by participating in events in real-time. It moves away from conventional talk therapy to discuss their concerns and emotions by making patients play roles or use props. It allows people to handle trauma and feelings healthily, reducing the need to resort to alcohol and substances in Wakefield, MA.

    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
  • Additional Details

    Specifics, location, and helpful extra information.
    Riverside Community Care Location and Directions
    Address Information338 Main St
    Wakefield, Massachusetts 01880 Phone Number(781) 246-1964 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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    Wakefield, Massachusetts Addiction Information

    Massachusetts has one of the highest rates of drug abuse in the country. More than half a million Massachusetts residents abuse alcohol while more than 1.5 million use illegal drugs each year. This drug and alcohol usage is the cause of over 8% of all deaths in the state. In 2017, Massachusetts ranked in the top 10 of the states with the highest opioid overdose rates.

    Wakefield, MA has seen a significant increase in drug addiction and abuse in recent years. Wakefield, MA, is located in Middlesex County, which had the second-highest number of drug overdose deaths in Massachusetts in 2015-2016. It is estimated that 1 in 10 people in Wakefield, MA, suffer from substance abuse. This means that approximately 1,600 people in the town need treatment for drug addiction. Many facilities offer inpatient and outpatient treatment options.

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