Daybreak

Inpatient Goals and Approach

• Provide an in-depth assessment of the needs and strengths of the client and client family.
• Help the client to understand, internalize, and embrace not only a program of recovery from chemical dependency, but also a healthy lifestyle.
• Provide recommendations regarding home structure and follow-up therapy for the client and family.

Treatment Staff
Primary Counselors consist of chemical dependency counselors, social workers, and mental health counselors, all of whom are cross-trained in chemical dependency and mental health counseling.

Skills Coaches coach behavior skills in real time as the clients participate in daily activities.

School Teachers assess and tutor students according to their individual academic needs. School programs are tailored to each individual.

How Treatment Works

Treatment Environment
Our living and treatment environment is designed to be warm and safe, yet highly structured in order to facilitate behavioral coaching and teaching. Within the environment, our Skills Coaches provide feedback and coaching about recovery issues and effective behavior.

Clients have light, daily chores, such as keeping their rooms clean, to helping with meal clean-up.

Individual Therapy
Each client has an assigned Primary Counselor. Clients receive a minimum of one hour of scheduled individual therapy per week. Additional counseling sessions occur on an as-needed basis.

Family Therapy
Family participation in therapy has proven to dramatically increase a teen’s chances of recover.  Family sessions are arranged with the Primary Counselor.  Family Group is held on weekends depending on the prorgram.

Recovery Education
Each day clients receive education on issues pertinent to their recovery and growth. Subjects include self-esteem, adolescent development, and gender issues.

Skills training groups
Skills groups address four skill areas that our teens find most challenging: mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance. The group setting is designed to provide an accepting environment where clients learn effective strategies for coping with situations and can practice these skills using situations they have experienced personally.

Support Meetings
Opportunity to attend various support meetings is offered multiple times each week .

Our Therapeutic Approach
Daybreak counselors are trained in two research-based methods of therapy which are deemed to be “Best Practices” by the mental health industry. They are Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).

Motivational Interviewing
Research shows that people are better able to make changes when the motivation comes from within themselves.  Motivational interviewing is a counseling approach based on the principle that all human behavior is motivated. It acknowledges that deciding to change is difficult and most people experience ambivalence when faced with difficult behavioral changes. It also acknowledges that people can perceive both the advantages and the disadvantages of altering their current drug use behavior. The aim is not to immediately focus on the action of changing, but working to enhance motivation to change.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy
DBT is an approach designed for people who have trouble controlling their emotions and behavior. Clients are taught and helped to use skills to help tolerate distress, manage their emotions, and be more effective in interpersonal relationships. The skills are taught in group settings, and are coached as the clients go through their daily activities. DBT blends specific styles of individual and group therapies into a coherent approach that emphasizes patients assuming responsibility for their actions.