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Southwestern Mental Health Center Avera - Worthington

Southwestern Mental Health Center Avera - Worthington

Drug Rehab Center in Worthington, Minnesota

  • Mental Health
  • Eating Disorder
  • Dual Diagnosis

Southwestern Mental Health Center Avera - Worthington in Worthington, Minnesota is a highly reputable treatment facility offering comprehensive care for individuals suffering from dual diagnosis, eating disorders, mental health issues, substance abuse and addiction, with various levels of care and aftercare support available.

About Southwestern Mental Health Center Avera - Worthington in Minnesota

Southwestern Mental Health – Unity House in Worthington, MN, stands out as a specialized facility focusing on residential addiction treatment and psychiatric care. It is particularly noted for its comprehensive approach to treating adults with co-occurring disorders and persistent mental illness, aiming to improve their daily functioning through a variety of therapeutic and educational interventions.

  • The facility offers a unique, integrated dual diagnosis treatment, catering specifically to adults with both substance abuse and mental health issues.
  • With a nine-bed capacity, it ensures a personalized and focused treatment environment, enhancing the recovery experience.
  • Services include anger management, crisis prevention, nutrition counseling, personal finance skills, medication education, and relapse prevention planning.

Southwestern Mental Health Center Avera - Worthington is accredited by JCAHO, SAMHSA, and holds a State License, underlining its commitment to maintaining high standards of care. The facility's affiliation with Avera Health enables it to provide a broad spectrum of services, from inpatient to outpatient care, all tailored to meet the complex needs of individuals seeking sobriety.

This center is adept at addressing a range of issues, including dual diagnosis, eating disorders, mental health disorders, drug addiction, substance abuse, alcoholism, and opioid addiction. Treatment methods encompass a holistic approach, focusing on the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of recovery, with various levels of care offered to support clients through their journey to sobriety.

Genders
  • Male
  • Female
  • Gender Exclusive Center
  • Ages
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Adults
  • Seniors (65+)
  • Modality
  • Individuals
  • Couples
  • Family
  • Groups
  • Additional
  • LGBTQ+ Allied
  • Hearing Impaired
  • Veteran Specific
  • SAMHSA Listed
  • Hearing-Impaired
  • Multiple Centers
  • Accreditations

    State License

    SAMHSA

    JCAHO

    Conditions and Issues Treated

    When someone in struggles with both addiction and mental or emotional illness, this is considered a dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis treatment can include therapy for these issues to happen simultaneously, which will allow either of them to be treated effectively.

    Sometimes people who have suffered from addiction disorder also suffer from co-occurring disorders such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, etc., making them “dual diagnoses.” Dual diagnoses require specialized treatment programs where drug and alcohol addiction are addressed along with psychiatric illnesses. Some rehabilitation facilities provide patients suffering from cooccurrences a program with highly integrated services and a clean environment with few distractions to help them succeed.

    Levels of Care Offered

    This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Dual-Diagnosis, Inpatient, Residential, with additional therapies available as listed below.

    Inpatient treatment for alcoholism or drug addiction is an option that provides the addict with a supportive environment in which they can stop using. After detox, an inpatient treatment center provides a structured environment for the addict to recover from their addiction and begin taking steps toward a lifetime of sobriety.

    This type of treatment is appropriate for addicts that are most in need of intensive care and supervision. This includes those who were unable to quit on their own, those who need more structure than they can get in outpatient treatment, and those whose addiction has led them into legal trouble or severe health problems.

    Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient’s individual requirements.

    Completing a drug or alcohol rehab program is only the first step. Then comes aftercare support. These services include sober living accommodations, career counseling, and AA/NA programs for those struggling with sobriety or who want help maintaining it after initial rehab at an addiction facility.

    They can last up to a year or more depending on what’s needed most urgently after the earlier stages are completed.

    Therapies & Programs

    Because no single treatment is effective for all addicts, the goal of treatment and therapy should be to figure out what works best for each individual. Tolerance and withdrawal levels differ from person to person, affecting the treatment intensity required. Addiction treatment should aim to help addicts develop healthy coping mechanisms for dealing with their addiction and its underlying causes.

    Couples therapy works with clients and significant others in a professional capacity to improve relationship dynamics. This can be helpful for addicts who are trying to marry the idea of recovery into their work, family, social lives – any aspect that has to do with relationships. Through counseling sessions, addicts will have an opportunity to talk about their addiction with professional partners.

    Family therapy is beneficial for people who are in addiction treatment services because it offers addicts the opportunity to work with their family members to better understand what led them to make choices that contributed to their addiction.

    This type of therapy helps family members reach a deeper understanding of how they can best support their loved one during recovery. It also helps the addict better understand their own motivations and triggers that led them to turn to substance abuse.

    Family therapy can help addicts in the following ways:

    • Assists family members in processing difficult feelings so they don’t blame or resent recovering addicts
    • Assists family members in understanding how addiction has impacted the addict and everyone who is involved with them
    • Allows the addict to take responsibility for their actions, while encouraging improved communication skills
    • Helps family members understand how to best support an individual in recovery so addicts don’t relapse again.

    Group therapy can help build a stronger support system and give addicts in Worthington, MN insight into their addiction that they gain through shared conversations. Group therapy occurs in a controlled group environment, exclusive of one on one meetings. This makes it safer for patients to feel comfortable sharing the struggles they’re going through and gaining perspective.

    Trauma therapy is beneficial for people who are recovering from drug addiction because it helps them heal from past traumas that may have caused them to turn to harmful substances or led them to experience negative emotions that contributed to their destructive behaviors.

    This type of treatment works by processing difficult experiences so individuals can learn how to process these events without having to turn to substances for coping.

    Trauma therapy can help addicts in the following ways:

    • Helps individuals understand their experiences and emotional responses to difficult events, including why they turned to drugs or alcohol
    • Provides them with comfort and support while working through difficult emotions related to these traumatic experiences
    • Offers an opportunity for addicts to have a voice and be heard, which can improve their self-esteem
    • Can help them develop coping skills so they can better respond to triggers instead of turning to substance abuse.

    Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a cognitive-behavioral therapy that helps patients understand the relationship between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is beneficial for those whose addictions and behaviors stem from severe mental health issues. The term “Dialectic” means the integration of opposites. In substance abuse, DBT refers to accepting the patient’s addiction and working to change their thoughts and behavior. It improves life skills such as controlling intense emotions without reacting impulsively, resolving interpersonal conflicts effectively, and promoting awareness about self and others.

    Cognitive-behavioral therapy is a technique that is used to help people with addiction. Specifically, it is a way of identifying thoughts and behaviors that cause the addiction. It is typically used in an individual counseling session.

    The content explains cognitive behavioral therapy and how it works to address some behaviors that may be leading to unintended consequences in their life, as well as its benefits for those seeking sobriety.

    It works by helping people to talk through their issues and addressing the thoughts that cause said behaviors. It is an excellent way of learning about oneself and one’s perception of the world.

    Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) helps people get sober by changing how they experience emotions. EMDR is a psychotherapy treatment that has been widely studied with people who have addiction problems.

    During the treatment, the patient is asked to recall specific memories that relate to their addictions. At the same time, they follow a moving object with their eyes or tap their hands or feet. This process helps the patient work through their emotions by separating the memory from the distress they feel about it.

    By enhancing the brain’s information processing systems, EMDR enables people to “process” experiences that trigger cravings and painful emotions so that they can move forward in their lives.

    It’s important to remember that malnutrition can affect your mood and energy level, which affects your desire to get sober. Good nutrition helps keep your body strong against the familiar ravages of drug use–tuberculosis, hepatitis, abscesses, infections, etc. — as well as the physical symptoms of withdrawal. If you’re eating right, you’ll have more energy for productive activities and will have more strength to fight cravings.

    Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) has many benefits for drug addicts who also choose to quit smoking. It is an effective technique at this treatment center that provides smokers with the nicotine they are addicted to without inhaling carcinogens from cigarettes to wean them off entirely. You can reduce your risk of heart disease and cancer, irritability, bone loss, stroke, type II diabetes, fertility in women, an enhanced sense of taste and smell.

    Patient Experience

    Experiential Therapy at Southwestern Mental Health Center Avera - Worthington

    Experiential therapy uses engaging activities to help patients access deeper, often hidden emotions. For example, the patient could role-play a problematic situation or engage in activities like drawing, painting, poetry writing, music composition, exercising, or journaling to help process intense feelings.

    Experiential therapy is a type of therapeutic approach that focuses on having patients work through problems, issues, or emotions by engaging directly in some real experience. Experiential therapy occurs face-to-face with a therapist who helps these people to explore their feelings first hand.

    It is based on the belief that to truly understand and gain insight into oneself and behavior; it is necessary and helpful to have real experiences with the issues involved. Some therapists have developed the experiential therapy approach as a way of treating addictive behaviors or dealing with impulses related to addiction. It comes from an existential school of psychotherapy called ‘experiential existential.’

    Payment Options Accepted

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  • Military Insurance
  • IHS/Tribunal/Urban
  • State-Financed
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    Southwestern Mental Health Center Avera - Worthington Location and Directions
    Address Information1215 4th Avenue
    Worthington, Minnesota 56187 Phone Number(507) 372-7671 Meta DetailsUpdated April 15, 2024
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    Worthington, Minnesota Addiction Information

    Minnesota is fighting an opioid epidemic that is leaving hundreds of its residents dead each year. Both prescription opioids and illicit opioids are widely abused in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Heroin continues to be one of the most commonly abused drugs in the state, if not the most common illicit drug. Over 10% of all treatment admissions in Minnesota list heroin as their drug of choice.

    An estimated 1,000 people aged 12 or older in Worthington had used an illicit drug in the past month. 41% of addicts are between the ages of 18 and 25. There are an increase of 33% in overdose deaths from 2007 to 2016. 22% of the population struggling with alcoholism. Some of the most common types of treatment include inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, and detoxification.

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