CSO - Hampshire County
Clinical & Support Options (CSO) in Northampton, MA, is a nonprofit community behavioral health agency. Specializing in mental health and substance abuse treatment, CSO offers diverse services, including outpatient and emergency care, across several counties in Western Massachusetts. Its trauma-informed approach supports individualized recovery.
CSO's mission is to provide effective trauma-informed interventions for mental health and substance use disorders, empowering individuals and families. Recognized with a Gold-Level Award and named a Top Workplace in 2023, CSO is committed to enriching local communities.
- State-designated Community Behavioral Health Centers offering open access to all.
- Specialized services including intensive outpatient programs (IOP/SOAP) and second offender aftercare programs.
- Diverse outpatient services like trauma treatment, group therapy, and mobile case management.
- Awards for excellence, including a Top Workplace designation in 2023.
Treating various addictions, CSO serves adults and children through urgent assessments, psychiatry, therapy, and structured outpatient programs. These services benefit diverse individuals and families seeking recovery in Western Massachusetts.
- 15 Conditions Treated
- Insurance Accepted
- 4 Levels of Care
- Speaks English
- 13 Therapies & Programs
Conditions and Issues Treated
Substance Abuse + Addiction Treatment
Substance abuse is the excessive use of any type of drug. This includes alcohol, medications and illegal drugs. Substance abuse is treated with a combination of physical and mental treatments. CSO - Hampshire County patients detox and follow up with therapies that target the underlying cause of the addiction.
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment
Opioid addiction is one of Massachusetts‘s most prominent forms of addiction. Drugs, including heroin, oxycontin, and fentanyl, are the most common. To relieve pain, or ease other ailments, they are professionally prescribed, but they are often abused because they and the feelings they give are addictive.
Addiction is treated by detoxifying the body, so the medications’ chemicals are no longer impacting the individual. CSO - Hampshire County offers therapies to correct behavior and target the root of the problem are supplemented during and throughout treatment.
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Intensive outpatient programs mostly conduct meetings on weekdays. Group therapy is the main element in most intensive outpatient programs. Most IOPs last for about 90 days and include drug use monitoring and testing. A Massachusetts IOP, like what’s offerd at CSO - Hampshire County, take much more time than a standard outpatient program. Some programs offer other services as well, such as employment assistance and medication management.
Outpatient rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into CSO - Hampshire County 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 CSO - Hampshire County in recovering from addiction.
CSO - Hampshire County‘s Therapies & Programs
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 CSO - Hampshire County in Northampton, Massachusetts, 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.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 CSO - Hampshire County in Northampton, 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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach and method in psychotherapy. CSO - Hampshire County 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
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Location & Contact
8 Atwood Drive
Northampton, MA 01060
Phone Number
(413) 582-0471
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Northampton, Massachusetts Addiction and Treatment
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.
Northampton dazzles as an artsy city with parks, trails, downtown shops, and a lively music scene. Hampshire County saw decreases in opioid treatment admissions and heroin/fentanyl admissions from September to October 2020, contrasting the state's overdose rate increase.
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