About Children’s Home-Wyoming Conference: Mastronardi Dante D
Children’s Home of Wyoming Conference runs eight locations, with their main office located in Binghamton, New York. They provide medical, spiritual, educational, and recreational care to children between the ages of 10 and 21. They offer treatment for substance use and for those with a family history of addiction.
Their substance abuse services operate from the Addiction Center of Broome County (ACBC), found in Hillcrest. This is available to any child with a substance abuse issue, as well as children with family members who have experienced or are currently experiencing addiction. The program includes counseling for individuals, groups, and families.
The program includes many harm reduction strategies which take a preventative approach to substance use. They aim to ease underlying risk factors like emotional, behavioral, and mental health issues.
A major part of the problem is a practice called trauma recovery empowerment. This program is aimed at adolescents and young adults who have experienced abuse of any form or witnessed violence in their homes or communities. This evidence based practice works by teaching groups self soothing strategies and boundary setting.
In order to effectively support young people struggling with co-occurring disorders it also integrates evidence-based practices. A fundamental component of their methodology is the Trauma Recovery Empowerment Model, a psycho-educational curriculum designed for teen boys and girls who’ve been subjected to physical sexual or emotional abuse or have otherwise been exposed to violence.
The main model used in their treatment philosophy is dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), which supports family, group, and individual counseling. Employees are committed to helping teenagers learn how to apply these techniques in their everyday lives. To ensure that the therapeutic approach is diverse and adapted to the needs of each young person, a variety of group therapies such as grief and loss trauma and substance abuse prevention and treatment are provided.
Participants then process traumatic events in a safe, understanding environment. Finally, they learn skills for communicating, making decisions, regulating their emotions, and establishing healthy relationships.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapy modality that focuses on the relationship between one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is used to establish and allow for healthy responses to thoughts and feelings (instead of unhealthy responses, like using drugs or alcohol). CBT has been proven effective for recovering addicts of all kinds, and is used to strengthen a patient's own self-awareness and ability to self-regulate. CBT allows individuals to monitor their own emotional state, become more adept at communicating with others, and manage stress without needing to engage in substance abuse.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a modified form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a treatment designed to help people understand and ultimately affect the relationship between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. DBT is often used for individuals who struggle with self-harm behaviors, such as self-mutilation (cutting) and suicidal thoughts, urges, or attempts. It has been proven clinically effective for those who struggle with out-of-control emotions and mental health illnesses like Borderline Personality Disorder.
Experiential therapy is a form of therapy in which clients are encouraged to surface and work through subconscious issues by engaging in real-time experiences. Experiential therapy departs from traditional talk therapy by involving the body, and having clients engage in activities, movements, and physical and emotional expression. This can involve role-play or using props (which can include other people). Experiential therapy can help people process trauma, memories, and emotion quickly, deeply, and in a lasting fashion, leading to substantial and impactful healing.
Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). There are a number of different group therapy modalities, including support groups, experiential therapy, psycho-education, and more. Group therapy involves treatment as well as processing interaction between group members.
In individual therapy, a patient meets one-on-one with a trained psychologist or counselor. Therapy is a pivotal part of effective substance abuse treatment, as it often covers root causes of addiction, including challenges faced by the patient in their social, family, and work/school life.
Trauma therapy addresses traumatic incidents from a client's past that are likely affecting their present-day experience. Trauma is often one of the primary triggers and potential causes of addiction, and can stem from child sexual abuse, domestic violence, having a parent with a mental illness, losing one or both parents at a young age, teenage or adult sexual assault, or any number of other factors. The purpose of trauma therapy is to allow a patient to process trauma and move through and past it, with the help of trained and compassionate mental health professionals.
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