Addiction Treatment Programs:
Drug Abuse Rehabilitation & Mental Health Services
Morningside Recovery’s drug dependency treatment approaches stem from years of addiction treatment experience, each model for drug rehabilitation backed by clinical research in treating clients with addiction disorders. Our comprehensive assistive modules are designed to assist an array of addictions, and Morningside prides itself in being able to truly address the psychiatric needs of clients with co-occurring disorders. We provide clients with the best possible chances and tools for long-term sobriety, and ultimately an improved/enhanced quality of life. We do this by continually investing in the most advanced addiction treatment resources and redefining how medicine, therapy and technology work together. Our client-centered treatment planning takes into account the client’s culture, values, and patterns of relating to others.
Our therapists adapt their skills to the specific needs of the client. All clients work with a primary therapist, an alliance built on evidence-based thinking. This means picking the best clinical option available for a given client in a given context based on the best current information. The information used in an evidence-based, proactive, informed approach to addiction treatment includes:
- Research alongside the experience & recommendations of clinical experts
- Each client’s personal history & past experiences
- The needs, values, preferences, & the client's unique nature
- Each therapist’s personal style & specialties
- Informed advice from clinical supervisors & other therapists
Evidence-based thinking mixes research and clinical experience with a large dose of common sense. Morningside Recovery’s therapists and counselors use evidence-based thinking because it is flexible -- always looking out for changes in the client's needs, and constantly adjusting their approach, as well to make use of new information. At Morningside Recovery, the first phase of treatment emphasizes quieting the brain and the body. A big part of this healing is our serene setting in Newport Beach where clients make sober friends, get regular exercise, and learn relaxation techniques. Clients are relieved of outside pressures and demands so that they can focus on recovery from addiction. Lasting recovery starts with clients learning about the treatment process. For example, early in treatment clients write about their reasons for pursuing treatment at Morningside Recovery. According to Dr. Kenneth Perlmutter, Family Relationships Specialist, early treatment tracks offer clients a unique set of challenges, goals, focus, new measures of success, and privileges that are intended to assist in the early stages of treatment for addiction: agitated, uncertainty, a degree of willingness -- though restless, irritated, unrealistic, and wanting more.
Morningside Recovery insists that each client be treated as an individual, each with their own uniquely tailored plan for addiction and dependency treatment. Clients are expected to engage in their treatment process by developing sober connections with other clients -- and therapeutic alliances with our on-staff professionals. Our staff continually assesses client needs and helps define realistic client goals. Each client’s developmental skills are assessed, with any gaps in abilities remdially supported with solutions pursued by both staff and peers alike. During this time clients are building therapeutic rapport, discovering and removing long-standing obstacles to seeing and telling the truth about themselves and the inherent obstacles within addiction. Clients learn to allow -- and understand -- professional and peer feedback, to build key relationships that support recovery. Our safe environment for addiction treatments, and the Morningside households, clients are taught, encouraged, and supported to:
- Follow and enjoy a daily schedule
- Care for self and practice personal hygiene
- Follow all recommendations of their doctor & psychiatrist
- Comply with and value testing to verify abstinence from alcohol and other drugs
- Become part of a team
- Think and speak honestly; Act responsibly
- Accept and understand feedback
- Develop a reliable sleep schedule supported by evening sleep routines
Specialized Treatment Tracks:
Mental Health Modules and Drug Dependency Rehab
Morningside clients may quicky benefit from any of our specialized tracks, working within their clinical track immediately with their therapists. These tracks include:
- Healthy Living/Disordered Eating
- Mood Disorders, including depression, anxiety & bipolar affective disorder
- Co-occurring Disorders [treating substance abuse or addiction(s) with mental health]
- Trauma and Attachment, including emotional dysregulation (commonly seen in personality disorders and PTSD)
- Chronic Pain (including emotional pain)
- Grief and Loss
- 12-Step Recovery
- Non-12-Step Recovery
Morningside clients are evaluated on their readiness to move forward in treatment, based on each client's ability to meet the challenges they will encounter over the next phase of their recovery. Rather than advance client -- based on the passage of time, the number of days clients have abstained from mood altering substances -- we rely upon a set of clearly articulated measures of success. These involve measuring cooperation, compliance, comportment, honesty, actively participating in dialogue/feedback, and the completion of a set of written interpersonal assignments. Specific privileges for each phase of treatment are also demarcated, reinforcing every client's efforts and measures of success.
The early weeks of treatment are typically the most unpredictable for clients, with ups and downs, often confusing to each client, and yet encouraging. Clients may go progess from greatly appreciating the opportunity at enhanced health, to doubting themselves and experiencing levels of regret, just in a matter of hours. Please note: for families we recommend the 48-hour rule; your loved one may be upset about this transition and will need some time to settle into their new treatment environment. Almost always, the client’s focus has shifted dramatically, either away from the original concern or to a more settled view. At the same time, creating clearer boundaries around both emotional and physical separation will assist the treatment and help family members move away from some of the traps and pitfalls that can contribute to their loved ones' cycles of loss, relapse, renewed addiction, and illness.
We believe that recovery is a process of personal growth that makes drugs and alcohol irrelevant in each Morningside's client’s life. As one client shared, “When I arrived at Morningside I was totally shut down. I just wanted to get loaded and erase the world. I didn’t want to believe that I was in pain and seeking relief through drugs. After detox and joining Phase I, recovery sort of crept up on me. I found myself opening up and healing, little by little.”
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