by newroadstrmnt | Sep 19, 2019 | Addiction Treatment, Behavioral Health, Finding Help, Relapse Prevention, Substance Abuse and Addiction, tips to staying sober, Utah Treatment Centers
Sobriety is a serious matter and you are not alone. Alcohol addiction doesn’t have to be mastered alone but if you need some help, look no further. Change Your Environment The first thing to do is say goodbye to all of your party friends that are drinking out...
by Leah Roberts | Jul 11, 2019 | Addiction Treatment, Behavioral Health
The treatment of drug addiction is really effective when a comprehensive and global perspective is applied. To achieve recovery when you suffer from addiction, it is important to solve some central problems that come hand in hand with being addicted, and that...
by Leah Roberts | Jun 20, 2019 | Addiction Treatment, Intensive Outpatient Program, Treatment Center, Utah Treatment Centers
Intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) are meant for individuals that need more than early intervention or general outpatient care but don’t necessarily need the medical detox or 24-hour supervision during their recovery. Individuals that benefit from...
by Leah Roberts | Jun 7, 2019 | Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Utah Treatment Centers
In recent years, the State of Utah has made a name for itself as a leader in the mental health treatment industry. Many dozens of successful centers comprising a wide variety of treatment styles continually make Utah their home. A select few of them are nationally...
by Leah Roberts | May 29, 2019 | Family Of An Addict, Family Therapy
Addiction is a heartbreaking and difficult disease that can affect families for generations. We know that addiction can be genetic and how it can create toxic family dynamics. Often when an individual struggles with addiction, one of their parents, sometimes both,...
by Leah Roberts | May 22, 2019 | Behavioral Health, Dual Diagnosis, Utah Treatment Centers
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...
by Leah Roberts | Apr 16, 2019 | Behavioral Health, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Dual Diagnosis
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...
by Leah Roberts | Apr 8, 2019 | Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Dual Diagnosis
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,...
by Leah Roberts | Mar 12, 2019 | Addiction Treatment, Finding Help, Mental Health Treatment, Treatment Center
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...
by Leah Roberts | Mar 12, 2019 | Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Distress Tolerance
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...
