Therapies
Interpersonal Psychotherapy as an Addiction Therapy for Chronic Relapse
Persons suffering from chronic addiction often feel isolated and alone.
Burning Tree Ranch shines a light on how a client’s unhealthy behavioral patterns may promote a sense of separateness in their relationships, leading to a deterioration in mental health. Utilizing Interpersonal Psychotherapy we help our clients re-build relationships with loved ones, and establish new relationships with a healthy support group of peers.
For the chronic relapser, relationships are generally near an all-time low by the time they reach Burning Tree Ranch. This circumstance can lend to a greater sense of hopelessness for the chronic relapser and family.
Interpersonal Pyschotherapy at Burning Tree Ranch
Burning Tree Ranch is a specialty program dedicated to the treatment of chronic addiction and mental health. Our program is long-term, progress-based, and highly intensive.
Interpersonal psychotherapy is just one of several addiction treatment therapies to help our clients mend and rebuild relationships. We use it in conjunction with other therapies to help the chronic relapser achieve freedom from the cycle of relapse. Like many therapeutic modalities, interpersonal psychotherapy can be used to treat a variety of mental health disorders, not just substance abuse problems.
Evidence Based Approach to Treating Mood Disorders
Interpersonal psychotherapy is an evidence-based approach to treating mood disorders. The main goal of interpersonal psychotherapy is to improve the quality of a client’s interpersonal relationships and social functioning to help reduce distress, and improve quality of life.
Interpersonal psychotherapy is based on the idea that our relationships with others can affect our mood and mental health. This therapy focuses on the current relationships in the chronic relapser’s life, and how improving those relationships through changed behavior can promote a deeper sense of meaning in everyday life.
Focusing On the Conflicts of the Present Moment
Unlike other forms of psychotherapy, interpersonal psychotherapy doesn’t focus on the past. More specifically, interpersonal psychotherapy focuses on tensions and conflicts with others in the current realm of life. It is important to note that IPT is not a ‘one size fits all’ treatment and should be tailored to the individual needs of each client.
Like other clinical modalities, IPT can be used as a standalone treatment for one specific mental health disorder, or as part of a combined approach to address multiple mental health disorders, including substance use disorder.
“In a long-term setting like Burning Tree Ranch, the same behaviors that bring our clients into treatment will ultimately be revealed to the community. From here, we can have an honest look.”
Dr. Leslie Secrest, Medical Director/Psychiatrist
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy in a Long-Term Treatment Setting
Burning Tree specializes in addiction treatment & Chronic Relapse
We understand the complex, multi-faceted issues many of our families face when it comes to addiction. The circumstances of long-term residential treatment allow us to create a treatment program unlike anything else in the world.
Operating outside the limitations of a traditional 30, 60 or 90-day format, Burning Tree adheres to progress-based metrics that inform the clinical treatment team of the unique mental, emotional and spiritual needs of the individual.
We are the only treatment center in the United States that combines time-intensive residential treatment with a therapeutically coordinated aftercare program focused singularly on the treatment of chronic relapsers.
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