Addiction is a heartbreaking and difficult disease that can affect families for generations. We know that addiction can be genetic and that it can create toxic family dynamics. Often when an individual struggles with addiction, one of their parents, sometimes both,...
Many people in the U.S. suffer from co-occurring disorders, also known as dual diagnosis. Dual Diagnosis is when an individual struggling with addiction has a co-occurring mental health condition. This can be everything from alcoholism and depression, to drug...
Constant Self Assesment So I can say I think the key to a healthy and balanced life is … I think the key is constant self assessment. If you live life with arrogance, what’s really going to be happening is you’re going to spend most of your life blaming...
Where does a life worth living come from? So actually as the more we get into how somebody builds a life worth living, we’ll see that that concept is actually quite old, and it borrows from Greek teaching tradition and Zen principles, and that basically say,...
So the reason that we want to do treatment, knowing that relapses happen, is so that we’re prepared to continue to manage the disease. Diagnosed and Intervened Once someone is initially diagnosed with any chronic relapsing disease, diabetes, asthma, high blood...
My name is Nicole and I am the Program Coordinator at New Roads Residential Treatment Center. I also do the DBT skills training with the clients. Today we are going to learn a skill. It is in our distress tolerance skill set. I’m gonna write distress tolerance...
Bipolar disorder is one of the most highly investigated neurological disorders, affecting nearly 4.5 percent of adults in the United States. Sadly, less than 40 percent of people with bipolar disorder receive the treatment needed to help them live their lives to the...
Hi. My name is Jordan Harmon with New Roads Behavioral Health. I’m going to give you a brief overview of core mindfulness, which is one of the main skill areas that we teach in DBT treatment. Core mindfulness includes ‘what’ skills and...
Mindfulness and meditation are two incredibly useful skills you will learn at New Roads Behavioral Health during your visit. They are even better when used together! Mindfulness and meditation are also great skills to embrace once you are out of treatment- or even as...
Trust us when we say- there are so many great benefits to choosing the New Roads treatment center in Salt Lake City, Utah! Utah has made a name for itself by offering a place for people all over the country to enjoy nature and recover peacefully. Our New Roads...
