Family Psychoeducation
Offered in a group format, provides the following to consumers and their families: - Information about mental illnesses
- assistance in building social supports through a multi-family treatment approach
- tools for enhancing problem-solving, communication, and coping skills
Consumers and families who participate in Family Psychoeducation report the following positive outcomes:
- fewer consumer relapses and less time in the hospital
- greater knowledge of serious mental illnesses
- decreased stress, confusion, and isolation, as well as increased focus on their futures
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Lincoln Behavioral Services has been a leader in providing evidence-based practices.
Co-Occuring Treatment
This program is provided to persons who are struggling with both substance abuse and mental illness, in order to develop hope, knowledge, skills, and the support needed to manage their problems and to pursue meaningful life goals.
These services are provided by cross-trained clinicians who are trained in both substance abuse and mental illness. Services focus on the stages of the recovery process, with sensitivity to each consumer's level of need and motivation to change. Staff use specific listening and counseling skills to help consumers develop awareness, hopefulness, and motivation for recovery. Individual and group treatment, family interventions, intergrated medical services, case management, and self-help support are provided as needed.
Dialetical Behavioral Therapy
DBT is a method of treatment created specifically to work with individuals who have Borderline Personality Disorder. It combines an intensive behabioral and cognitive approach in a comprehensive program. DBT includes weekly individual therapy, weekly skills training and 24 hour coaching to help members who struggle with suicidal thinking, self-injurious behaviors, emotional dysregulation and chaotic personal lives. DBT explains Borderline Personality Disorder as stemming from a biological component coupled with an invalidating upbringing, which is called the "Biosocial Theory". Together these create emotional dysregulation in the individual and result in a lifetime of sensitivity, inability to tolerate distress and ineffective ways of coping.
The goal of DBT is to provide skills, psychoeducation and new perspectives which will allow members to lead happier, calmer and more successful lives.
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