The Cumberland Heights Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center offers a number of programs:
Chemical dependency impacts different people in different ways. That's why Cumberland Heights offers a range of treatment options, both residential and outpatient, designed to meet the diverse and individual needs of each person seeking help.
Our approach to treatment is based on the timetested principles of the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, which originated more than 75 years ago. While these principles form the philosophical foundation for our programs, we integrate developments from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, spirituality and medicine into our approach. At Cumberland Heights, we strive to provide treatment based on the most current advances in science and recovery.
Our residential programs begin with a thorough medical assessment to help us understand your physicial needs and anticipate and treat any symptoms of withdrawl. After a complete history and physical examination, one of our attending physicians will prescribe any necessary medications which are administered and monitored by our nursing staff. After your physical condition has been stabilized, you will begin focusing on the psychological and spiritual dimensions of your recovery.
The residential program options described here are designed to treat your disease in the most clinically appropriate way. Our team of physicians, nurses, primary and family counselors, and case managers work closely to individualize treatment to your needs, with flexible length-of-stay recommendations.
The Men's Center
The Men's Center offers gender-responsive treatment for adult men ages 18 and up. An interactive and action-based style of counseling creates accountabilikty within a community of peers so you will fee challenged and supported at the same time.
- The Traditional Men's Program is based on a minimum stay of 30 days. This allows for in-depth exploration of how addiction has impacted your life and provides time to establish a foundation for lifelong recovery. Your counselor will guide you in indentifying issues to be addressed in treatment and outline steps you need to take to establish that foundation.
- The First Step Men's Program is based on a 7-14 day residential stay, depending on your personal needs, followed by intensive outpatient services for four weeks. This lets you detoxify in a safe setting and work on the crises that brought you to treatment. You'll meet outpatient staff before you leave residential treatment and receive basic recovery tools to help you succeed in an outpatient setting.
- The Men's Extended Care Community is based on a 60 - 120 day residential stay. This program, which mirrors primary treatment in the Traditional Men's Program or other similar program, helps you identify and address core psychological issues that may sabotage ongoing recovery. It also allows you to practice a daily recovery program in a supportive setting that's less restrictive than primary care. Men come to the main campus every day for treatment activities and share transitional housing located one mile from the main campus. Active attendance and participation in the local 12-Step community creates a bridge between treatment and recovery community enviornments.
The Women's Center at Cumberland Heights provides a safe, home-like enviornment in women-only spaces with female staff. Because we know safety and community are key to your recovery, our program lets you explore at your own pace in a community of women who listen and support you as you find your voice. We deal with marriage and family problems, parenting concerns, body image, and violence issues with sensitivity and respect.
- The Traditional Women's Program is based on a minimum stay of 30 days. This gives you time to begin the healing process and understand how addicition has impacted your life. Your case manager and couselor will help you identify your strengths and support you as you learn how to use them in your recovery process.
- The First Step Women's Program is based on a 7 - 14 day residential stay, followed bya four-week intensive outpatient program. During your stay, we will help you detoxify and begin to develop a plan for your ongoing recovery. We will focus on providing you the tools and support necessary to be successful in outpatient treatment.
- The Women's Extended Care Community is based on a stay of 60 to 120 days. This longer period of time allows you to begin returning home to your roles as wife, mother, etc. We will explore the skill of balanced living, which is crucial for women accustomed to caring for themselves last. Therapeutic services are available on our main campus with transitional living fifteen minutes from campus.
Specialty Services
Cumberland Heights realizes that certain patients have additional needs in the recovery process.
- Young Adults' Services are based on the fact that addiction interferes with normal development. The transition from adolescence to adulthood has many identity and relationship nuances, which present a unique challenge in recovery. Activities with these 18-24-year-olds are centered around developing a recovery identity and using 12-Step tools as a guide to relationship building. Both the men's and women's centers offer specialty services for young adults.
- Relapse Prevention Services are designed for patients who have returned to active addiction following primary treatment and a period of recovery. Together we look at how thinking, emotions and behavior changed before the first episode of use. We design recovery plans to address these relapse triggers and develop support networks to aid in relapse prevention.
- Professionals' Services provide help for physicians, dentists, nurses, attorneys, pilots and other professionals whose careers place them in high-stress, high-risk situations. We assess vocational needs and develop an advocacy plan in conjunction with licensing boards. In addition, groups with other professionals provide a supportive peer group for accountability. Our goal is to help the professional return to his or her career with a solid foundation for lifelong recovery.
Still Waters
Still Waters is a 12-Step immersion program for men located in Lobelville, Tennessee. The progam is based on Alcoholics Annonymous and Narcotics Anonymous principles of recovery and is taught using AA- and NA-approved literature, fellowship, group discussions, lectures and 12-Step meetings. The Still Waters program is a low-cost alternative to Cumberland Heights' more intensive residential programs, and is most appropriate for those with prior 12-Step experience who do not require medical/psychiatric care. Family services; including a monthly family program, are an integral component at Still Waters.
Still Waters staff members are committeed to helping those motivated to change make the adjustments and commitments required to live free from alcohol and drugs.
Family Services
At Cumberland Heights, we believe family participation is so important that it's part of our primary mission statement. Addiction is a family disease and each family member deserves recovery. We offer a variety of services including family orientation, family education groups, individual family sessions, multi-family group sessions, and a formal four-day family program we strongly encourage families to attend. Cumberland Heights also offers one of the few children's programs in the country, serving ages 6 to 13 in a camp-like enviornment. A family counselor will contact those family members whom you choose to participate in your treatment. We encourage you to choose broadly because everyone benefits when families come together to heal.
Cumberland Heights' Intensive Outpatient Program allows the individual to remain at home and at work while integrating recovery into the challenges of everyday life. The program provides individual and group counseling, and education on addiction, recovery and other areas related to substance use. As with all of our programs, family involvement is an integral part of outpatient treatment.
Our outpatient program is offered throughout Middle Tennessee. Outreach coordinators are also located across the state. Contact Cumberland Heights for more information.
Participants typically attend 18-24 sessions, four days a week, three hours per session. And we offer both morning and evening programs for adults and adolescents, as well as special groups for relapse prevention.
At Cumberland Heights, we understand that adolescence involves major physical and psychological changes - the adolescent is trying to establish a personal identity and peer acceptance while dealing with powerful hormones that create a whirlwind of emotion and passion. When substance abuse or addiction is added to the mix, the situation becomes even more volatile.
Cumberland Heights' youth programs offer a continuum of services for adolescents ages 14 to 18 who are struggling with substance abuse or dependency, including a residential program (30 to 60 days) and intensive outpatient treatment.
Our youth programs are based on an approach that integrates the 12-Step philosophy with respect for developmental issues that adolescents face. We strive to assess the strengths and resiliency of each young person and develop a treatment plan that emphasizes these positive attributes and focuses on denial management and basic recovery skills.
Because research shows that family participation increases the likelihood of positive outcomes, we encourage family involvement in every phase of treatment.
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