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Directions for Living is a substance use treatment center located in Clearwater, FL.
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An addiction to drugs or alcohol can also be dangerous to your emotional, social and financial well-being. Therapy and support groups can help you come to terms with your problem behaviors and develop tools for overcoming them. It is important to be truthful with yourself and others in order to change.
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855-416-9832- Type of Care Offered
- Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
- Recovery Treatment Approaches
- Cognitive behavioral therapy. Patients actively participate in therapy sessions to learn how to modify or replace negative thought patterns. The sessions can include one-on-one therapy, groups, and family involvment.
- Substance use counseling approach. This short-term treatment involves encouraging individuals to openly discuss their personal experiences which leads to greater self-awareness and an enhanced ability to work through relationship issues.
- Trauma-related counseling. A treatment approach for PTSD clients and other effects of trauma or abuse. Therapy utilizes cognitive behavior techniques that are adapted for the specific needs of these clients.
- Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders.
- Relapse prevention. Relapse prevention utilizes several CBT modalities that help individuals maintain abstinence by changing the maladaptive behaviors that play a role in their addiction.
- Anger management. Seeks to help patients develop strategies to better manage the anger cycle and improve conflict resolution. Also seeks to reduce emotional and physiological responses to anger.
- Brief intervention. Substance abusers who are not yet dependent will benefit from a short-term intervention that consists of one to five sessions.
- Motivational interviewing. A treatment approach that seeks to help a person become motivated to change the behaviors that prevent them from making healthier choices in life. Patients also learn to manage the anger or hostility that interferes with their ability to make changes.
- Service Settings (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient etc.)
- Outpatient treatment services without an overnight stay at a treatment facility or hospital.
- Regular outpatient treatment that is similar to ASAM Level I, outpatient treatment, non-intensive.
- License/Certification/Accreditation
- Licensed by the state department of health.
- This center is CARF accredited. The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities is an independent non-profit accreditor of health and human services.
- This Facility is accredited by the Council on Accreditation. COA partners with human service organizations worldwide to improve service delivery outcomes by developing, applying and promoting accreditation standards.
- Facility Operation (e.g. Private, Public)
- Private non-profit organization
- Special Programs/Groups Offered
- Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for adult women.
- Adult men
- Transitional age young adults
- Assessment and Pre-treatment
- Comprehensive mental health assessment
- Comprehensive substance use assessment
- Outreach to persons in the community
- Counseling Services and Education
- Individual counseling offered
- Group counseling offered
- Family counseling offered
- Marital and couples counseling offered
- Substance abuse education
- Type of Opioid Treatment
- Does not treat opioid addiction.
- Pharmacotherapies
- Medications for psychiatric disorders
- Transitional Services
- Aftercare/continuing care
- Discharge Planning
- Ancillary Services
- Housing Services offered to assist individuals in finding and maintaining appropriate and affordable housing arrangements.
- Mental Health Services which provides an assessment, diagnosis, treatment or counseling to assist an individual or group in alleviating mental or emotional illness.
- Consumer-run (peer-support) Services are run by mental health consumers and provide support services, such as social clubs, peer-support groups, and other peer-organized or consumer-run activities.
- Social skills development
- Transportation assistance
- Case Management provides a case manager for clients and families to monitor their needs and become their advocate and assistant for any services needed.
- Payment, Insurance, and Funding Accepted
- Cash or self-payment
- Medicaid is accepted. Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with low incomes and limited resources. Medicaid programs vary from state to state.
- Medicare is accepted. Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people age 65 and older and people with disabilities.
- This facility accepts a state-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid.
- Private health insurance is accepted.
- Military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
- Federal, or any government funding for substance abuse programs
- Payment Assistance Available
- Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors). Variable prices for services based on a person’s ability to pay.
- Payment assistance (check with facility for details).
- Screening and Testing
- Screening for mental health disorders
- Screening for substance use
- Tobacco and Screening Services
- Screening for tobacco use
- Smoking/tobacco cessation counseling
- Facility Smoking Policy
- Smoking permitted in designated area.
- Age Groups Accepted
- This facility accepts children and adolescents who exhibit co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders.
- This facility accepts all young adults through programs which are tailored to co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders.
- This facility accepts all adults for treatment.
- Gender Accepted
- Female
- Male
- Language Services
- Services for the deaf and hard of hearing.
- Other Languages
- Staff counselors provide treatment in Spanish.
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