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Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services

Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services

Drug Rehab Center in Buffalo, New York

  • Mental Health
  • Dual Diagnosis

The Western NY Children's Psychiatric Center - Community Services is an addiction treatment facility in Buffalo, NY that offers dual-diagnosis and outpatient levels of care for individuals struggling with mental health and substance abuse issues, providing evidence-based therapies, medication management, and support groups, and accepting private health insurance.

About This Buffalo, NY Facility

Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services is a Dual Diagnosis, Mental Health Treatment Facility located in Buffalo, NY. Designed for individuals looking to overcome substance abuse and addiction, this center offers a range of outpatient levels of care. With a focus on Dual-Diagnosis and Mental Health treatment, Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center provides a comprehensive approach to recovery. This facility accepts Private Health Insurance and is affiliated with the Office of Mental Health - New York State.

Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services offers a variety of services and treatment methods for individuals struggling with addiction and substance abuse. Their team of professionals provides Dual-Diagnosis treatment, addressing both the mental health issues and substance use disorders simultaneously. They offer outpatient levels of care, allowing individuals to receive treatment while living at home and maintaining their daily routines. With a focus on individualized healing, Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center incorporates evidence-based therapy approaches, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), trauma-informed care, and motivational interviewing. These methods aim to empower individuals to make positive changes in their lives and develop effective coping skills.

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
  • Conditions and Issues Treated

    Some of the most common co-occurring disorders are schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder. Most rehab facilities in Buffalo, NY like Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services 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 Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services 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 Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services in recovering from addiction.

    Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services‘s Therapies & Programs

    Addiction in Buffalo, New York can occur due to a wide variety of reasons. Understanding your addiction and the best methods for maintaining sobriety involves learning about yourself. Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services treatment programs include individual therapy for the greatest chances of success.

    Customized individual therapy is counseling involving you and your counselor at Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services. 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 Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services in Buffalo, New York, 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 Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services understands this. Family sessions are meant to bring New York 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 Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services in Buffalo, NY 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 Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services 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. Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services 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 Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services in setting a goal quit date, using nicotine replacement and gradually decreasing nicotine intake is proven to help.

    Patient Experience

    Experiential Therapy at Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services

    Experiential therapy at Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services 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 Buffalo, NY.

    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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    Additional Details

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    Western NY Childrens Psychiatric Center - Community Services Location and Directions
    Address Information575 Alberta Dr
    Buffalo, New York 14226 Phone Number(716) 832-0720 Meta DetailsUpdated November 25, 2023
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    Buffalo, New York Addiction Information

    More than 2 million New Yorkers are currently suffering from some type of substance abuse and many of those are minors. Alcohol abuse, in particular, is prevalent among those underage. As a result of the high prices and regulation of prescription drugs, many New Yorkers turn to heroin instead. This has led to a serious heroin epidemic in the state.

    10.8% of New Yorkers aged 12-17 reported using an illicit drug. In Buffalo, NY, the number of drug overdose deaths increased from 33 in 2015 to 70 in 2016. Methamphetamine use is rising in Buffalo, with more meth seized in 2017 than any other year on record. Buffalo is home to several treatment facilities. Treatment typically begins with a detoxification process, followed by individual and group therapy.

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