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San Diego Center for Children - Serra Mesa

San Diego Center for Children - Serra Mesa

Drug Rehab Center in San Diego, California

  • Mental Health
  • Dual Diagnosis

The San Diego Center for Children – Serra Mesa is an addiction treatment facility founded in 1887 that provides comprehensive treatment programs tailored to individual patient needs, with staff dedicated to strengthening the communities served to empower healthier lives.

About This San Diego, CA Facility

San Diego Center for Children - Serra Mesa is an Addiction Treatment Facility located in San Diego, California. Founded in 1887, this facility has a long history of providing comprehensive care for individuals suffering from dual diagnosis and mental health conditions. It offers accreditation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), ensuring high-quality care and adherence to strict standards. Affiliated with San Diego Center for Children, this addiction treatment facility specializes in serving individuals in need of dual-diagnosis treatment and offers outpatient levels of care.

San Diego Center for Children - Serra Mesa provides a range of services to address addiction and substance abuse. With a focus on dual diagnosis, this facility offers integrated treatment for both mental health and addiction to ensure comprehensive care. Through their outpatient levels of care, they provide counseling, therapy, and support services tailored to meet individual needs. By addressing both mental health and addiction concerns simultaneously, they aim to help individuals achieve long-lasting recovery and overall well-being.

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
  • Multiple Centers
  • Accreditations

    JCAHO

    Conditions and Issues Treated

    Some of the most common co-occurring disorders are schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder. Most rehab facilities in San Diego, CA like San Diego Center for Children - Serra Mesa 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 San Diego Center for Children - Serra Mesa 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 San Diego Center for Children - Serra Mesa in recovering from addiction.

    San Diego Center for Children - Serra Mesa‘s Therapies & Programs

    Addiction in San Diego, California can occur due to a wide variety of reasons. Understanding your addiction and the best methods for maintaining sobriety involves learning about yourself. San Diego Center for Children - Serra Mesa treatment programs include individual therapy for the greatest chances of success.

    Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at San Diego Center for Children - Serra Mesa. This builds a personal and trusting relationship so you can truly be yourself and express any emotions as you feel them. Individual therapy leads to greater peace and understanding about your triggers for addiction and coping strategies to prevent relapse.

    Substance abuse does a number on an individual’s relationship with other people, particularly in marriage. Spousal relationships bear the brunt of alcohol and drug dependence. Therefore, it becomes critical to submit the relationship to couples therapy to prevent straining it further. Most programs only zero in on the individual with substance addiction without factoring in the importance of the other half’s emotional support.

    However, some facilities, like San Diego Center for Children - Serra Mesa in San Diego, California, offer couples therapy options to manage intimate partnerships amid the recovery process. Other couples-focused treatment plans can provide the patient and their partner tools to get things back to normal, support each other, and the patient’s sobriety.
    Addiction is a family disease. Family therapy aims to heal and rebalance unhealthy roles and habits. Healing any family trauma and dysfunctional communications is important, and San Diego Center for Children - Serra Mesa understands this. Family sessions are meant to bring California families closer together and live sober, healthy, lives.

    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 San Diego Center for Children - Serra Mesa in San Diego, CA 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 San Diego Center for Children - Serra Mesa 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. San Diego Center for Children - Serra Mesa 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

    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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    San Diego Center for Children - Serra Mesa Location and Directions
    Address Information8775 Aero Dr
    San Diego, California 92123 Phone Number(858) 633-4115 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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    San Diego, 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.

    Nearly 2,000 people die from a drug overdose each year in San Diego. Of the total population of San Diego, approximately 9.5% reported illicit drug use. According to recent statistics, drug addiction and abuse are among the top causes of preventable death in San Diego. There are rehab programs specifically tailored to meet the needs of women, men, young adults, or those with co-occurring mental health disorders.

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