Malvern Treatment Centers program provides a unique, state-of-the-art which blends the latest evidence-based medical and psychological practices with proven addiction treatment methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), 12-Step integration, and Motivational Interviewing.
Malvern Treatment Centers has four residential addiction treatment services in alignment with ASAM Levels:
- Medically Monitored High Intensity Withdrawal Management Services (3.7 WM) Detox
- Medically Monitored High Intensity and Intensive Inpatient Services (3.7) Dual
- Clinically Managed High Intensity Residential Services (3.5 Co-Occurring Enhanced) Rehab Dual
- Clinically Managed High Intensity Residential Services (3.5) Rehab
Our comprehensive, holistic approach focuses on:
- Accurately assessing and delivering targeted interventions based on the patient’s motivational level, psychiatric condition and readiness for change
- Emphasis on the effective use of therapeutic tools in a short period of time
- Focus on working with the patient’s present and future situation, resources, and strengths.
- Well-integrated Relapse Prevention strategies
- A trauma-informed milieu, which includes supportive, professional staff and a peer interaction process which fosters growth
- Aftercare planning and support system linkage
Family/Support System Involvement
Family/support system involvement in the treatment process can contribute to your success. Family (when available) is involved in treatment to address the pertinent issues in their family system and enhance support. Family therapy sessions are conducted by Masters-Prepared Family Therapists. The goal is to restore and support functional, healthy family systems and to provide for continued emotional growth, development and well-being of the resident. In addition, identified support systems beyond immediate family are recruited as part of each resident’s individual recovery plan. Learn More about Malvern’s Family Services.
Evidence-Based Treatment
We believe evidence-based treatment helps people rebuild relationships and enhances their overall well-being. Our focus is on helping patients to identify problems, navigate scenarios, and engage in situations in a positive manner which builds a sustainable path of recovery. We incorporate these evidenced-based practices:
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, person-centered form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation for change by helping patients to explore and resolve that which is interfering with the desired changes. This treatment is focused on the goals of building motivation for change and strengthening commitment to change.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Solution-Focused Therapy assumes that the patient has the resources needed to make the changes they desire. This modality does not focus on the problem, but rather on the solution and uses well-defined goals for change. The treatment team works with the client to guide the desired and agreed upon behavioral changes.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy is a structured, goal-oriented therapy that helps people identify and change negative thinking patterns and behaviors that cause emotional distress. Coping skills are improved by linking thoughts, feelings, and actions. We will help you determine where faulty beliefs are affecting relapse prevention ability. A variety of cognitive behavioral therapies is offered to assist in correcting general cognitive deficits as well as specific cognitive distortions related to anger, shame, identity, sexuality and relationships. In addition, a variety of experiential treatment modalities are offered to assist in the development of an integrated sense of self. These activities are also helpful in developing socialization skills, reality testing, and affect tolerance and regulation. Interventions are geared toward the examination of self-defeating beliefs, cognitive distortions and the integration of cognitive restructuring and reframing.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an approach to therapy that can help you learn to cope with difficult emotions. DBT treatment provides clients with a combination of skills training and individual psychotherapy. It has been proven to be effective with clients who present with:
- Emotional dysregulation: Difficulty regulating emotions of anger, sadness, shame, guilt and fear; Emotional lability
- Behavioral dysregulation: Impulsive behaviors such as self-harm, drug use, aggressive behaviors
- Interpersonal dysregulation: Having and managing relationships
- Cognitive dysregulation: Controlling attention, including dissociation, paranoia and brief psychosis
- Self-dysregulation: Knowledge of self, values, sexual identity, etc. (www.ticllc.org)
When DBT is successful, the client learns to envision, articulate, pursue, and sustain goals that are independent of his or her history of emotion-dependent and maladaptive behavior.
Medication-Assisted Therapy
Medication-assisted treatment (MAT), also referred to as “medications for addiction treatment,” is an effective way to overcome drug and alcohol addiction. MAT focuses on treating the whole person, not just symptoms, and is meant to ease the transition off a substance and reduce the likelihood of an overdose. Learn More About MAT.
Seeking Safety
The therapeutic approach to working with residents follows Seeking Safety, an evidence-based, present-focused counseling model to help people attain safety from trauma and/or substance abuse. It was developed in 1992 under grant funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. It was developed by Lisa M. Najavits, PhD at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital in 1992 under grant funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This empirically supported approach creates a milieu that helps residents recognize patterns to behavior choices and how to develop more appropriate choices in the future.