Our Integrative Environment

What does an Integrative Environment Mean?

An integrated environment is when there is a high degree of communication and collaboration among a diverse group of healthcare professionals who are all on the same team and within the same treatment location.

What makes an integrative environment unique is the sharing of information among all the team members related to client care. They work under one individualized and comprehensive treatment plan to address the individual’s biological, psychological, and social needs.

Our healthcare team includes diverse members such as physicians, psychiatrists, physician assistants, nurses, licensed addiction therapists, licensed mental health therapists, case managers, family specialists, peer recovery coaches, residential directors, and more.

Integrated Environment Components

Treating individuals with substance use, co-occurring, and/or mental health disorders requires comprehensive, integrated services and includes:

Thorough screening and assessment processes for physical and mental health

Residential housing during treatment for safety and comfort

Onsite psychiatrist

Multiple treatment formats, such as group, individual, family, and peer support

Motivational techniques as well as Behavioral techniques

Pharmacotherapy when appropriate, and monitored for safety

Relapse prevention

Case management to support aftercare goals

Achieving Integrated Treatment

To effectively receive treatment, the program must:

Be well-coordinated

Be knowledgeable of stage-specific treatment (engagement, stabilization, active treatment, continuing care, etc.)

Implement effective treatment strategies from both mental health & addiction fields

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Reaching Recovery With These 5 Integrated Treatment Principles

To successfully treat individuals, Peaks Recovery focuses on these fundamental building blocks. With these principles in mind, both substance use disorder and mental illnesses are treated to meet the full scope of the individual’s needs.

Long-term recovery frame of mind

We approach each individual’s recovery process with the understanding that:

1. Recovery is a long-term process of internal and external change
2. These internal and external changes require a stage-wise approach that can meet the individual’s readiness for change.

Multidimensional problem solving

For those who suffer from substance use, co-occurring, and/or mental health disorders, most have an array of pitfalls in many areas of life; medical, mental, social, family, and substance use. Not only does this require the rebuilding of physical and mental stabilization and skill-building, but it also requires comprehensive services that support long-term goals for work, health care, housing, community, and more.

Confront real-life issues in early treatment

This is where our integrated case management team shines. Though early recovery requires a focus on stabilization, our program also wants to ensure the transition to the next level of care goes smoothly, and that real-life hurdles (such as family or legal issues) don’t go unmanaged.

Use of support systems

Individuals suffering can experience inconsistent supportive environments, alienation, or unfortunate stigma within communities. Our program knows the invaluable role community plays in recovery, ensuring an individual is aware of the available support systems and how to engage effectively.

Motivational techniques

These types of techniques are integrated into treatment to help individuals feel empowered, but not overwhelmed by the journey ahead. Setting goals in early recovery can set someone up for long-term recovery.

Benefits of Integrated Treatment

Treating individuals within an integrated environment in our programs has been associated with the following:

Reducing mental illness symptoms

Improve co-occurring disorder-related knowledge and skills

Increased self-esteem

Substance abuse reduction

Improved treatment retention and client satisfaction

FAQs About Integrated Treatment

Why is Integrated Treatment better?

Integrated is the preferred approach to treatment because it has the resources and capacity to effectively treat the diagnoses and symptoms within a single system/program alongside a single team cohesively working together.

Are all treatment programs considered Integrated?

No.

Here are a few other approaches providers may use to treat co-occurring disorders:

1. Serial or sequential treatment: This is where an individual is treated for one disorder at a time, such as being treated for depression disorder, and then after, being treated for the substance use disorder.

2. Parallel or simultaneous treatment: This approach is where an individual is treated for both the mental health disorder and the substance use disorder but by different providers and different teams.

Can I receive treatment at Peaks Recovery if I primarily suffer from a Mental Health Disorder?

Yes!

Peaks Recovery Centers is licensed and equipped to treat individuals with primary mental health diagnoses. Learn More Here.

What about ‘Dual Diagnosis’?

For a long time, the term ‘Dual Diagnosis’ has been the leading term in the behavioral health industry describing individuals with co-occurring disorders. Though the terminology ‘Dual Diagnosis’ still has its proper use, the literature for the addiction treatment and mental health fields have evolved, putting Integrated Treatment at the forefront of treatment approaches within inpatient rehabs.

Due to the continuous rise of individuals suffering from co-occurring disorders, SAMHSA has put a greater emphasis on integrated care as this has become the larger focus within the clinical research field today. Integrated Treatment not only shifts the treatment terminology towards being more person-centered, but it also lays out essential dynamics, principles, settings, and interventions treatment programs NEED in order to wholesomely treat individuals more effectively.

Resources:
https://store.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/SAMHSA_Digital_Download/PEP20-02-01-004_Final_508.pdf

Medical Disclaimer: Peaks Recovery Centers aims to improve the quality of life for people struggling with substance use or mental health disorder with fact-based content about the nature of behavioral health conditions, treatment options, and their related outcomes. The information we provide is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. It should not be used in place of the advice of your physician or other qualified healthcare providers.