Community Guidance Center - DuBois
Community Guidance Center - DuBois in DuBois, PA, specializes in behavioral health and social services, psychiatry, and psychology. It operates with eight practicing physicians and offers extended hours on weekdays. Accepting new patients, it provides Medicare and Medicaid coverage.
The center's mission is to offer high-quality mental health, drug, and alcohol services, empowering community members to improve their lives. It holds certification in the internationally recognized Sanctuary Model for trauma-informed care.
- Offers comprehensive outpatient therapy, including school-based options.
- Provides a dedicated adult partial hospitalization program.
- Certified in the Sanctuary Model for trauma-informed care.
- Provides resource coordination and case management services.
Community Guidance Center addresses various addictions and mental health issues, serving individuals and families in the community. It benefits both adults and children with a wide range of therapeutic and rehabilitative services.
- 2+ Accreditations
- 3 Conditions Treated
- Insurance Accepted
- 4 Levels of Care
- Speaks English
- 19 Therapies & Programs
Accreditations
State License
SAMHSA
Staff
- Dr. Glenn Losack, MDPsychiatristBoard-certified psychiatrist with extensive experience in mental health.
- Dr. Ralph M May, MDPsychiatristSpecializes in comprehensive psychiatric services.
- Dr. John Edgar AllenPsychiatristExperienced in diagnostic evaluations and psychotherapy.
- Dr. Dennis P Clark, PhDPsychologistProvides psychological assessments and therapy.
- Dr. Dana Robert Irwin, PhDPsychologistExpert in behavioral health and social services.
- Dr. Lori Ann Kane, PhDPsychologistSpecializes in trauma-informed care.
- Dr. Mark Edward PleissPsychiatristFocuses on medication management and group therapy.
- Dr. John Scott Schuster, PhDPsychologistProvides individual and group therapy.
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. Community Guidance Center - DuBois patients detox and follow up with therapies that target the underlying cause of the addiction.
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment
Opioid addiction is one of Pennsylvania‘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. Community Guidance Center - DuBois 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 (IOPs) are treatment programs suitable for people who wish to stay at home while undergoing treatment. IOPs like Community Guidance Center - DuBois make it possible for individuals to carry on with their responsibilities at work or school, in or near Dubois, PA. It’s easy to find an IOP center that offers individualized treatment protocols.
In outpatient programs at Community Guidance Center - DuBois, the Dubois resident can live with their family while continuing with their job or studies. Treatment includes educating the patient on drug abuse, medications, and counseling sessions at the individual or group level.
Aftercare support refers to the follow-up care provided after the initial rehab program. The quality of aftercare support plays an important role in preventing relapses and sustains recovery. Aftercare support at Community Guidance Center - DuBois is personalized according to the needs of the patient in Pennsylvania.
Community Guidance Center - DuBois‘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 Community Guidance Center - DuBois in Dubois, Pennsylvania, 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 Community Guidance Center - DuBois in Dubois, PA 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 Community Guidance Center - DuBois 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. Community Guidance Center - DuBois 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
Rational Emotional Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a method of specific counseling that replaces negative and self-limiting thoughts with positive and productive behaviors. Self-defeating thoughts and habits can limit your possible successes. Some examples of this are procrastination, unhealthy eating and angry outbursts. You may not be aware that some unhealthy behaviors and thoughts are sabotaging your potential accomplishments.
The 12-step program is a part of substance abuse treatment offered at Community Guidance Center - DuBois. It was initially developed by the founders of Alcoholics anonymous. The program provides the benefit of cognitive restructuring. It refers to the process of change in the negative thoughts that leads to long-term benefits.
Some people refer to contingency management, or CM, as motivational incentives. This type of therapy is a reconditioning of the mind and responses of the body. The point of CM is to help the body understand the proper responses to behaviors should be, as well as the effects that come with both problematic and desired behaviors. The more positive choices a person makes, the more incentives they will receive, all managed with sobriety goals by Community Guidance Center - DuBois in Dubois, PA.
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Location & Contact
100 Caldwell Drive
Dubois, PA 15801
Phone Number
(814) 371-1100
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Location
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100 Caldwell Drive
Dubois, PA 15801 -
(814) 371-1100
Accepts
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GenderFemale, Male
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AgeAdults (20+), Children (0-12), Teenagers
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ModalityCouples, Family, Group, Individuals
Ownership
Listed May 26, 2020
Updated July 25, 2024
Dubois, Pennsylvania Addiction and Treatment
Pennsylvania ranks 14th in the nation for drug-related deaths. More than 10% of all deaths in Pennsylvania have been related to drugs and alcohol. 30% of Pennsylvania youth reportedly drink alcohol monthly, with more than 20,000 teenagers having an alcohol problem. The rate of opioid misuse in Pennsylvania is double the national average.
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