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CBT Techniques

If you are on the pathway to drug recovery, then you may have heard of cognitive-behavioral therapy or CBT. This psychotherapeutic approach is based on changing negative thought patterns and thereby changing negative emotions and behaviors. The thinking behind cognitive-behavioral therapy is that if you interrupt negative thinking, you break the cycle leading to negative… Continue Reading CBT Techniques

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The Holistic Approach To Addiction Recovery

The holistic approach to addiction recovery means treating the whole person. It means not just working on the physical symptoms, but also the mental, spiritual, and social, with the understanding that they are all interconnected in the healing process. When this is applied to addiction recovery it allows the patient to heal and improve all… Continue Reading The Holistic Approach To Addiction Recovery

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What is Dual Diagnosis Treatment?

Dual diagnosis is a term that treatment professionals use to identify mental illness and co-occurring substance use. Both conditions form a symbiotic relationship in which one either contributes to or draws from the other. For instance, a client may self-medicated to cope with a mental illness. Likewise, excessive substance use can intensify the symptoms of… Continue Reading What is Dual Diagnosis Treatment?

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Autism May Increase Your Risk of Depression

According to a recent study, people with autism spectrum disorders are more than three times as likely as the general population to struggle with depression. Nearly 20 percent of people with autism also had depression. What’s more, higher functioning people without intellectual disabilities were even more severely affected. Not only were they depressed at a… Continue Reading Autism May Increase Your Risk of Depression

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Dual Diagnosis Counseling in Salt Lake City

Dual diagnosis is also referred to as co-occurring disorders. This refers to individuals who are struggling with both a mental illness as well as a substance addiction. Dual diagnosis can be a challenge and will take time to overcome. Treatment can be harder for patients with mental illnesses, because it can become a struggle to… Continue Reading Dual Diagnosis Counseling in Salt Lake City

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Dual Diagnosis Treatment: How We Can Help

At Recovery Ways, the therapeutic team takes a Dual Diagnosis approach to treatment. Dual Diagnosis Treatment emphasizes that a person has a mood disorder (such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, etc.) and a substance use disorder simultaneously. When this happens, it is common for the person to struggle to understand the relationship between the two… Continue Reading Dual Diagnosis Treatment: How We Can Help

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How to Know if You Have a Co-Occurring Disorder?

Treatment of drug and alcohol addiction is seldom as simple as merely addressing the particular chemicals an addict is taking into his body. More often than not, addicts suffer from other disorders in conjunction with their chemical dependency which is clinically referred to as co-occurring disorders. The National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services says… Continue Reading How to Know if You Have a Co-Occurring Disorder?