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What is Treatment?
Treatment involves several steps. The first step is to complete an assessment of what a person is doing and how they got to this point in their life. An assessment at CASI usually takes about two hours. Part of the assessment involves determining a person’s readiness to change along with their patterns of use and the consequences.
If a person is ready for change, then the next step is to develop a negotiated treatment plan. This is where our professionals suggest how to best deal with the use, abuse or misuse of alcohol and/or other drugs. Not everyone that has a problem related to alcohol or drug use is an alcoholic or addict. We also ask the person and family members if available, what they want to change or do differently. Goals are established and treatment begins with working toward those goals.
If a person is not ready for change, then we present options to the individual and family members. Everyone in the family is affected by alcoholism and addiction. Children are often impacted the most. Without help, children who grow up in a chemically dependent family often develop a variety of emotional, behavioral and physical problems. These children are much more likely to develop alcohol or drug problems than children who were not exposed to alcohol and drug abuse in the home.
Alcohol and drug abuse is emotionally and sometimes physically painful to family members and they can choose to deal with those issues and pain. Just as the person using or abusing alcohol or drugs, family members have to determine their readiness to change. There are programs and services to help the family members, regardless of whether the substance abuser is in treatment or not.
Treatment usually consists of a mixture of individual, group and family counseling. Outpatient counseling usually involves one to four hours of counseling a week for three to four months. Intensive Outpatient counseling involves eight to ten hours of counseling per week spread over three or four days. It is usually eight to ten weeks in duration. There may also be a need for detoxification or residential care. The proper matching of needs to services is critical and best discussed with our professional staff after an assessment.
Successful treatment requires self-examination and digging up all the old stuff, and working through it and sharing it. Treatment can be emotionally painful at times. Particularly, when someone faces what they have done under the influence and how it has affected them and the ones they love. But with help, individuals and family members can get through it and begin to rebuild the trust and love that is often destroyed as the result of alcohol and/or other drug abuse.
The belief that people can change and the hope of a brighter future are the cornerstones of what we do at CASI. We have been helping individuals, families and family members for over 25 years. We can bring hope even when there does not seem to be any. All you have to do is contact us.
Ph: (317) 536-7100
Fax: (317) 536-7101
e-mail: CASI@communityaddictionservices.org
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