Preferred Family Healthcare – Bridgeway Behavioral Health – The Farm

Alcoholism

The goal of treatment for alcoholism is abstinence. Those with poor social support, poor motivation, or psychiatric disorders tend to relapse within a few years of treatment. For these people, success is measured by longer periods of abstinence, reduced use of alcohol, better health, and improved social functioning. Recovery and Maintenance are usually based on 12 step programs and AA meetings.

Drug Addiction

Drug rehab in Missouri usually involves several phases: detox, rehab, and aftercare. The rehab phase may include a combination of inpatient and outpatient treatments, as the individual moves through a continuum of care on their recovery journey.

Dual Diagnosis

Many of those suffering from addiction also suffer from mental or emotional illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, or anxiety disorders. Rehab and other substance abuse facilities treating those with a dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorder administer psychiatric treatment to address the person's mental health issue in addition to drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

Opioid Addiction

Opioid rehabs specialize in supporting those recovering from opioid addiction. They treat those suffering from addiction to illegal opioids like heroin, as well as prescription drugs like oxycodone. These centers typically combine both physical as well as mental and emotional support to help stop addiction. Physical support often includes medical detox and subsequent medical support (including medication), and mental support includes in-depth therapy to address the underlying causes of addiction.

Substance Abuse

Substance rehabs focus on helping individuals recover from substance abuse, including alcohol and drug addiction (both illegal and prescription drugs). They often include the opportunity to engage in both individual as well as group therapy.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapy modality that focuses on the relationship between one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) relates thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to one another to help identify patterns of thinking that lead to destructive behavior. Once the thoughts are identified, they are challenged to form a more realistic interpretation of events.

Creative Arts Therapy

Through their Achieving Recovery, Resiliency & Responsibility Through Creativity (ARTC) programs, PFH strives to provide a wide range of creative opportunities and experiences which allow program participants, young and old to use their talents, strengths and interests as tools for personal growth and recovery.

Equine Therapy

Those who are familiar with horses recognize and understand the power of horses to influence people in incredibly powerful ways. Developing relationships, training, horsemanship instruction, and caring for horses naturally affects the people involved in a positive manner. The benefits of work ethic, responsibility, assertiveness, communication, and healthy relationships have long been recognized. Horses naturally provide these benefits.

Experiential Therapy

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. Wilderness therapy and Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare are subsets of Adventure-based Therapy. OBH at The Farm includes but is not limited to gardening, land maintenance, and hiking.

Family Therapy

The involvement of family in the treatment process is seen as a vital component and The Farm will offer weekly Family Education, Site-based Family Therapy, and in-home Family Therapy. Research is very clear about the role that families play in an adolescent’s recovery and every effort to gain the families participation will be made.

Group Therapy

Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). These groups are facilitated by a counselor and occur twice daily for approximately 60 to 120 minutes each session. On some occasions the groups are divided according to Chapter. Each of these groups uses a specific curriculum.

Individual Therapy

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. Clients meet with an assigned therapist at least once per week for a 50 minute session. Psychological, emotional, and behavioral issues are addressed.

Life Skills

Life skills group is held at least one time a week and educates clients concerning living skills such as money management and budgeting, job attainment, community resources, apartment and home care, environmental issues, health and hygiene, transportation safety, clothing/linen care, and first aid. Individual treatments are provided when ordered by the physician and address issues such as sensory processing difficulties and sometimes advanced living skills for clients who are nearing the age of 18 and/or who are getting ready to leave the facility and/or who are working on a separate track toward their GED.

Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing is a goal-oriented, collaborative conversation used to strengthen a person’s own motivation and commitment to change. With MI, The Farm staff do not impose their opinion, but rather acknowledge the opinion of the client and identify his motivations and skills for change. MI recognizes that true power for change rests within the client, which encourages feelings of empowerment as well as responsibility.

Nutrition Therapy

Nutrition therapy, aka medical nutrition therapy (MNT), is a way of treating physical, emotional, and medical conditions through diet. Specific dietary plans are designed by professional nutritionists or registered dietitians, and patients follow them in order to positively affect their physical and mental health.

Trauma Therapy

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.