YMCA of Honolulu - Stevenson Middle School
Drug Rehab Center in Honolulu, Hawaii
The YMCA of Honolulu - Stevenson Middle School in Hawaii provides addiction treatment services with a team of certified counselors and psychiatrists, offering individual, group and family counseling, medical assessments, and psychological evaluations, along with evidence-based care that focuses on promoting healthy lifestyles to reduce the risk of relapse.
About YMCA of Honolulu - Stevenson Middle School in Hawaii
YMCA of Honolulu - Stevenson Middle School is a private, non-profit organization in Honolulu, Hawaii that provides addiction treatment services for individuals, families, and communities. Their mission is to provide a safe, healthy, and supportive environment for those with substance use and addiction issues. Their team of certified counselors and psychiatrists offers a range of therapeutic and supportive services to assist clients in their recovery journey. Their services include individual, group and family counseling, medical assessments, and psychological evaluations. Treatment plans are tailored to each individual's needs and are designed to empower individuals in their recovery.
At YMCA of Honolulu - Stevenson Middle School, clients receive evidence-based care that focuses on promoting healthy living and lifestyle changes in order to reduce their risk of relapse. Clients receive Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help them recognize their triggers, develop skills to manage cravings, and cope with stress. They also use mindfulness-based practices to reduce feelings of anxiety and depression and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) to teach healthy communication skills. Other therapies offered to help individuals in their recovery include art therapy, yoga, and equine therapy.
YMCA of Honolulu - Stevenson Middle School has several accreditation and licenses, such as their accreditation by the Joint Commission for Behavioral Health Care and their certification by the state of Hawaii. They are also a member of the Hawaii Association of Addiction Counselors and have been awarded the Outstanding Service Award from the Mental Health America of Hawaii for their efforts in providing substance use services. They offer specialized programs for adolescents, including youth leadership and gender-specific services to support young adults in their recovery.
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This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Outpatient, Residential, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Outpatient treatment is often used for drug addicts in drug rehab. Outpatient treatment consists of counseling and therapy sessions. This form of treatment is also called ‘day-treatment’. The outpatient treatment process begins with the addict’s initial detox period, lasting about ten days.
Outpatient treatment is used for those who are at moderate risk for ‘slipping back’ into the addiction, for those who:
- Are not currently experiencing any side effects from withdrawal and can handle social pressure
- Can handle stressors that might trigger relapse
- Have a stable living environment or have moved out of their previous environment, which was not conducive to being sober
- Have a support system that allows them to go to a facility a few times a week while still keeping their current responsibilities
- Have no legal obligations, being either on parole or probation, that require them to seek treatment at a mandatory facility
- Are not currently experiencing any side effects from withdrawal and can handle social pressure
- Have a stable living environment or have moved out of their previous environment, which was not conducive to being sober
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.
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 Honolulu, HI 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.
Life Skills Services assist addicts in their recovery by teaching them healthy coping mechanisms that will aid them in becoming sober, focussing on helping people enter into, and maintaining long-term sobriety. Drug Treatment Centers provide Life Skills Services at varying levels of intensity, specific to the needs and requirements of each patient.
The benefits of Life Skills Services offered at YMCA of Honolulu - Stevenson Middle School:
- Restores hope and empowerment — Helps addicts believe that recovery is possible and instills a new confidence in their ability to achieve a positive, drug-free future
- Enhances family involvement — Encourages families to get involved in the recovery process and supports their understanding and encouragement of healthy behavior.
- Increases patient’s compliance — Helps patients take responsibility for and ownership of their recovery and encourages continued progress
- Reduces relapse rates — Encourages long-term abstinence and emphasizes the importance of establishing sober support systems.
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.
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Creative Arts
Creative arts therapy, known as expressive therapy, may be used as a means of treatment. Acting and music are among the various forms used to express oneself where written words would fail through poetry or song. The goal is to find a balance by integrating thoughts and feelings to improve the mental state of patients in Honolulu, Hawaii.Experiential Therapy at YMCA of Honolulu - Stevenson Middle School
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.’
Fitness Therapy
Fitness therapy allows people to heal while rebuilding their bodies. If they combine it with nutritional therapy, they will feel better and make better choices right from the start of rehab. These activities provide a solid connection between your mind and body, teaching you to create healthy life habits without any addiction.
There are two types of fitness therapy: psychotherapy plus exercise or just exercise plus nutrition education. It is commonly used in YMCA of Honolulu - Stevenson Middle School.
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1202 Prospect Street
Honolulu, HI 96822
(808) 848-2494
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Honolulu, Hawaii Addiction Information
Hawaii has one of the highest rates of drug abuse in the nation. Methamphetamines and marijuana are the most common drugs involved in drug-related crimes in Hawaii. The state loses $500 million every year due to methamphetamine abuse, according to the Hawaii Meth Project. More than 1 million prescriptions for prescription drugs are given out every year.
In 2016, there were 809 drug-related deaths in Honolulu. Heroin was involved in more than half of all overdose deaths in 2016. 6.1 percent of people in Honolulu abused drugs in the past month. In 2015, there were 2,538 admissions to treatment centers for drug abuse in Honolulu. There are many drug treatment facilities in Honolulu, HI that can help you or your loved one get sober.
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