For over twenty years, The Turning Point, Inc., has offered the highest quality treatment services available for individuals dealing with substance abuse or dependency. Our programs are based on only the most reliable and research-based methods. And our staff are constantly improving and refining these programs.
We offer two separate programs based on the client’s age and emotional development. For information on the adult program, simply continue reading. To jump directly to the information on our adolescent program, click here.
ADULT SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROGRAM
Our adult program allows the client to move through it in three to six months at a pace based on the changes they successfully make in their ways of thinking and behaving. It begins with a thorough assessment by a highly trained counselor and is followed by regular group an individual sessions. At each of the individual sessions the client’s progress is assessed and a determination is made as to how quickly the client can proceed to the next level of the program. This unique approach prevents a client who is making significant progress from becoming bogged down in a fixed-length treatment program, but allows those who may be in need of extra help to spend additional time on the issues where they need improvement.
We also believe strongly that support and education of family members in dealing with a loved one in treatment for substance abuse is critical the well-being of both the family and the client. As a result, we offer monthly family group sessions at each of our locations. These sessions have become extremely popular with the families and have proven invaluable in developing a better family dynamic. Additionally, the client will be seen privately along with his/her family to further strengthen their understanding of the process and address their individual needs.
It is this focus on the specific needs of each individual client that has made our program so successful. And during the program each client will be provided with information and training in the follow areas:
- Identification of unique reinforcers and triggers for using and non-using behaviors;
- Individualized treatment planning;
- Interpersonal skills training;
- Enhancement of social support network skills;
- Anger management;
- HIV education;
- How to socialize and have fun without using;
- Skills in refusing drugs and/or alcohol when offered;
- Assertiveness and communication skills;
- Constructive ways to give and receive criticism;
- Stress management; and
- Relapse prevention.
ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROGRAM
Our thirteen to twenty-four week Adolescent Substance Abuse Program is designed to motivate adolescents to commit to abstinence from drugs and alcohol, to determine individual reinforcement systems for non-using behaviors, and develop more effective interpersonal skills in interacting with others.
We use a broad spectrum behavioral treatment approaching in providing:
- Individualized assessments to identify unique reinforcers and triggers for using and non-using behaviors;
- Individualized treatment planning;
- Behavioral life skills
- Interpersonal skills training;
- HIV education;
- Social/recreational counseling;
- Relationship/family counseling;
- Relapse prevention/aftercare; and
- Peer support.
For the parents of our youth clients we offer:
- Behavioral and interpersonal tools that they, themselves, may lack;
- Training in problem solving strategies to replace attempts at control of the client; and
- Parent support groups to provide the opportunity for peer feedback and help parents define their own limitations and skill deficits.
For families of our youth clients we offer:
- A model for functional interpersonal and intrapersonal behavior;
- Training on making the family a consistent and primary reinforcer for the adolescent’s behavior and shifting that role from unhealthy peers; and
- Participation in treatment planning as well as in the treatment process.
To be eligible for this program an individual must be chemically dependent or substance abusing, age seventeen or younger, and be willing to cooperate with the treatment process. Funding for this program may be available through the Texas Department of State Health Services for those meeting certain financial criteria or for adolescents seeking to enter the program without the support of a parent or guardian.
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We offer both morning and evening groups at all of our outpatient locations, North, South, West, and Ft. Bend for the convenience of our clients. |
