Crownview Co-Occurring Institute – Our Program
Crownview Co-Occurring Institute develops comprehensive treatment plans tailored to the specific needs of each client. Specializing in complex psychiatric conditions, our clients have the opportunity to both learn and practice the relationship and life skills needed to take charge of their lives and reach the highest possible level of independence.
COMPONENT 1:
Intensive Personalized Psychotherapy
CCI’s individualized treatment approach creates highly customized action plans. We design wrap-around therapy strategies with a team approach.
Our program contains a wealth of diverse licensed professionals in addition to a fully integrated psychiatric team. This means that our psychiatrists are not independent contractors, but rather, full time employees that are available on call at any hour. Our support staff play an important role by acting as the eyes and ears of our treatment team.
Utilizing an experiential or “hands-on” approach, our case managers engage with the client and begin forging a relationship of trust.
At CCI we hold to the belief that life skills, in conjunction with proper medication, sustain mental health. Medications are used as needed to stabilize the client and lay a foundation of receptivity to other, more sustainable therapies.
The goal, evaluated with daily monitoring, is to reduce or even eliminate medications when they are no longer deemed necessary for the client’s well-being.
Psychiatry – Each client is assessed by a Crownview psychiatrist and is seen regularly for follow-up appointments throughout the course of treatment.
Individual Therapy
Our full range of psychiatric and pharmacological services include the following and more:
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Stellate Ganglion Block for Trauma
- Pharmaceutical Therapies
- Milieu Therapies
- Solution-Focused Therapies
- TMS (Trans-cranial magnetic stimulation)
- Biofeedback
- Experiential Therapies
- EMDR (Eye Movement and Desensitization Reprocessing)
- Nutrition Training and Coaching
- Yoga, Exercise and Gym Memberships
- Mindfulness and Meditation
- Acupuncture (by request)
- Equine (Horseback) Therapy
- Counselling the Family
Group Therapy
Therapy for the Family
We host regular Family Weekends with therapist run workshops to give time for re-integrating clients with their families in a controlled setting and providing opportunity for celebration of the client’s progress.
- Teaching Effective Communication Skills
- Establishing Healthy Relationship Boundaries
- Unlearning Dysfunctional Habits
- Breaking the Cycle of Co-Dependency and Enabling
- Creating new Patterns of Self-Reliance and Trust
- Training to Live Independently or Cooperatively
- Family Support Group Weekends
NOTE: We constantly monitor the responses our clients have to the pharmacological regimen we develop for them, and are careful to adjust when necessary to best effect.
COMPONENT 2:
Life Skills Support Therapies
Some of the skills included are the following:
- Housekeeping Skills
- Structuring, Planning and Time Management
- Nutrition and Diet
- Meal Planning and Preparation
- Grocery Shopping
- Household Financial Planning
- Personal Medication Self-Management
- Personal Hygiene
- Healthy Sleep Schedule
COMPONENT 3:
Work Skills, Self-Discipline and Motivation
Placing Vocational and Educational Goals in Real World Experience
To be effective, there must be training on-site with actual job responsibilities or educational performance, with at least some of the uncertainties and stresses that may involve.
CCI programs nine hours per week of occupational development for each client. This helps the client overcome their fear of failing, being rejected and lays a solid foundation for re-integration into life.
CCI offer workshops and coaching in the following ways:
- Employment Workshops
- Exploring Education and Training Options
- Mock Interviews
- Preparing and Coaching for Job Interviews
- Motivational Interviewing
COMPONENT 4:
Case Management – Keeping the Big Picture
Our approach to client evaluation to define their assets (strengths) and liabilities (weaknesses) – where they may be doing well and where they require professional help.
Program Walk Through
- Phase 1 – Acclimation: In phase 1 we create a highly-structured, compassionate, and safe environment to allow our clients to adjust to treatment.
- Phase 2 – Resocialization: At phase 2 we maintain structure as our clients begin to rediscover their social values, beliefs, and norms. As this process happens we begin to see clarity and retention. In phase 2 our clients begin to earn more responsibilities such as personal electronics and free time.
- Phase 3 – Developing life skills: Once a client reaches phase 3 they have shown the ability to begin developing or re-enforcing life skills to support independence. In phase 3 our team begins a heavy emphasis on life skills such revolving around vocational support, educational support, realistic budgeting, and healthy independent routines.
- Phase 4 – Independence: Phase 4 is where our clients begin to utilize the skills from the previous three phases to demonstrate independence with a major reduction to staff structure. We utilize this phase to observe our clients apply the combination of coping skills and life skills required to live a healthy independent life.
What makes our program outline unique is that with the above structure mixed with experienced understanding we can make each clients treatment differ from the next. This flexibility is due to the understanding that not every client falls short in the same skills as one another. With our phase system we have the ability to individualize each client’s treatment plan in every aspect to provide the most personalized and productive care possible.