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What is a Rehab Center

Sober Courage

Rehabilitation centers for Substance Use Disorder (SUD), commonly known as rehabs, are specialized facilities that provide comprehensive treatment and support for individuals struggling with drug or alcohol addiction.

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Getting Better Outcomes from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatments

Society of Clinical Psychology

Several effective treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) exist, yet nearly half of patients continue to have significant symptomatology after receiving them (e.g., Augmentation can include pharmacological treatments, psychological treatments, or novel or emerging treatments such as exercise, acupuncture, or art therapy.

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Violent offender treatment effectiveness: What we know and where to from here?

Society of Clinical Psychology

This SCP Blog piece by Drs Papalia, Spivak, Daffern, and Ogloff discusses a recent meta-analytic review of psychological treatments for violent offenders published in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Dowden & Andrews, 2000; Lipsey, 2009).

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Episode: Dr Max Taquet and Why Some People Develop Brain Fog

MQ Mental Health

That doesn't really matter in some ways since treatment is very much the same both psychologically and medically. He and his colleagues found, he says “quite clearly”, that having Covid-19 was associated with a much greater risk of brain disorders than having something like the flu.

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Can Happiness Make Us Healthier? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Society of Clinical Psychology

We designed a 12-week positive psychological intervention—ENHANCE—focused explicitly on increasing happiness rather than treating mental illness. In a paper published in the journal Psychological Science , we found that our positive psychological intervention had beneficial effects on self-reported physical health (Kushlev et al.,

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Can You Leave Rehab Before Your Program is Done?

Gateway Foundation

The aim of these sessions is to discover the underlying emotions and triggers that might have contributed to your substance use disorder. Lack of Necessary Skills Addiction treatment offers the tools needed to treat your addiction and address emotional and psychological issues outside of rehabilitation.

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SMALL ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN FREQUENT CANNABIS USE AND COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION IN YOUTH APPEAR TO WANE AFTER BRIEF ABSTINENCE: RESULTS FROM A META-ANALYSIS

Society of Clinical Psychology

in Psychology from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with specialization in Neuropsychology from the San Diego State University/ University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program. Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation , 2017 (8), 9–37. About the Author. Cobb Scott, Ph.D. received a B.A. Gonzalez, R.,