Comprehensive Treatment at SMI...
addresses the Core Issues of a young adult populationNovember 2009
It would be difficult to match the clinical depth of the Spruce Mountain Inn program. For over twenty six years, we have offered a very structured program, the components of which are diverse, comprehensive, complementary and sophisticated. Our program is small with unparalleled attention to individual treatment needs.
While all of our clients must be able to benefit from our treatment model for us to admit them, we employ a variety of treatment modalities, with varying levels of intensity. We carefully assess each individual client and to the greatest extent possible address their cognitive, behavioral, physical, relationship, productivity, creative, and recovery needs as well as other aspects of personal growth and health.
In the initial six weeks following admission, program participants attend groups as well as individual meetings with members of his/her treatment team. We offer approximately 35 hours per week of groups lead by fourteen different facilitators. Individual sessions offer: psychotherapy, case management, support work (practical assistance), psychiatry, substance abuse treatment and vocational/educational services. The staff in our small program work very closely together through multiple daily meetings and a computerized notes and records system. Our high level of coordination creates wrap-around treatment in an environment of intensive peer support where life changing clinical work can be accomplished.
Following are some of what our therapists describe as "core issues" of many of our program participants:
- Poor self esteem
- Intimacy: fear of it and fear of the conflict that can come with it
- Incomplete identity formation/developing a sense of self
- Trauma
- Abandonment and loss
- Family dysfunction
- Shame (about their life thus far, their illness and their beliefs of being stigmatized by their family, friends and community as a whole).
