Posts Tagged ‘treatment centers’
Question by The Advocate of the Devil: What is a “specialized gender identity treatment center” as specified under the PSU health plan?
I’m looking at this:
“Coverage will not be
provided unless the member has already completed a recognized program at a specialized
gender identity treatment center.”
https://www.aetnastudenthealth.com/schools/psu/dombrochure1213.pdf
Now, I’m currently seeing a therapist, currently taking hormones and also full-time, but I’ve never heard of anything like this. What is it?
Best answer:
Answer by Clones Don’t Have 200k Pts
Ask Aetna.
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Proton therapy center in Franklin is gaining traction in cancer treatment
Proton therapy, a radiation treatment that uses a beam of protons to irradiate cancerous tissue, is quickly gaining traction in the medical field. According to the National Association for Proton Therapy, there are about a dozen proton therapy centers …
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Former exec: Cancer Treatment Centers 'sell false hope'
A former spokeswoman for Cancer Treatment Centers of America is suing the corporation, saying it uses false advertising to make huge “profits at the expense of many desperate patients and their families.” Rockford resident Lynette Bisconti represents …
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Question by rdmnboon: What are the %’s of people who return to drugs after rehabilitation?
I am writing an Essay for this one subject and I want to involve some percentages… What are the percentages of people who return to drugs even after being at rehab?
P.S. Please show me a source, so I know it’s not just a guess or estimate…
I have to write an Essay for one of my subjects and need to know the percentage of people that relapse after they have been to rehab for drug and alcohol abuse…
P.S. Please refer a source, as so I know you didn’t just guess or estimate…
Best answer:
Answer by Ember L
well my mom did after 5 years of being clean and my aunt did after 3 months of being clean hope that gives you an idea
Answer by raysny
Most relapse and most rehabs lie about it, using “followup studies”. They kick some of the people that they think won’t make it so that they do not show up in their followups, they call people who finished the program and ask if they are still sober. So many things wrong with that, some lie and most of the people they can’t get hold of are the ones that relapse, not the ones that can manage to hang onto the same phone number.
Many sources can be found here:
The Effectiveness of the Twelve-Step Treatment
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html
The Problem With Statistics:
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-statistics.html
One person asked, “When AA/NA or a particular rehab center claims an X% ‘success rate’ what exactly does that mean? I have seen some places boast 85-90%.”
There are at least a couple of answers:
Basically, what they do is: Just ignore everybody who fails or drops out or is kicked out of their program early. “They don’t count because they didn’t complete the program,” the counselors say. That conveniently eliminates all of the failures, relapsers, and dropouts from the statistics. That produces numbers that are as biased as can be, of course. It isn’t the successful abstainers who drop out of the programs; it’s the people for whom the program was no help and are relapsing. The treatment centers are just engaging in some more Enron-style accounting. They create the illusion of great success by hiding all of their failures “off of the books”.
So if 100 people start the program, and at the end there are 10 left who actually graduate, and 8 of them are still clean and sober a month later, then the treatment center claims an 80% success rate.
The treatment centers also almost never do longer-term follow-ups, like checking to see how many of their clients are still sober and drug-free a year after graduation. If the treatment centers ever did that, they would discover that their real success rate was nothing more than the usual rate of spontaneous remission.
It seems to me that all of those treatment centers are guilty of criminal fraud and false advertising. Why doesn’t someone sue and sic the Fair Trade Commission on them?
Cora Finch gave this answer:
It comes down to two things, baseline and outcome. Both can be defined in a variety of ways, or left undefined.
The “best” numbers come from studies with the highest baseline. Take highly-paid professionals who have had a DIU and get a lot of hangovers. In 1940 they would have been considered ordinary people. But now we can count them as alcoholics and put them in a diversion program with the threat of losing their jobs and — Wow, what a success rate!
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#AA_numbers
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Legislators push health insurance parity for substance abuse
Almost all Pittsfield's robberies and break-ins are drug-related, police say, and abuse treatment centers in the city have seen increases of up to 70 percent in clients being treated for opiate dependency over the past three years. "It's heroin and …
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El Paso Alcohol Rehab Launches Program Aimed at Reducing Drinking …
At this point, the client enters counseling and therapy. For ethnic groups, this is a great opportunity to show others that recovery from alcohol addiction is entirely possible and truly worth it. For more information on the El Paso center's alcohol …
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Honolulu Alcohol Rehab Announces New Therapy Available for Adolescents …
Honolulu, HI (PRWEB) November 26, 2013. A Honolulu alcohol rehab center is announcing that new therapeutic programs are now available for adolescents battling binge drinking problems at Alcohol Addiction Treatment Centers. A 2012 study released by …
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County Considers Expanding Drug Treatment Programs
Santa Clara County needs more drug rehab housing for convicts slated for release under the state's 2011 prison reform measure. In September, a Superior Court judge told the county it has to expand residential treatment centers to accommodate defendants …
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Chris Brown ordered to 90 days of rehab, random drug testing after getting …
Judge James Brandlin ordered Brown to complete another 90 days of residential rehab and submit to periodic drug testing. RELATED: CHRIS BROWN OUT OF REHAB, CONTINUING ANGER TREATMENT. The judge said Brown must stay in Los Angeles …
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Question by Mz Lopez: What do social workers actually do?
I wanna go to school for psychology but I wanna work more along troubled teenagers or people in need of help like a social worker I guess. not giving medicine.
Best answer:
Answer by Saadia
The investigate cases of child abuse and/or neglect.
Answer by monique
Answer based on U.S.
Social work job duties/responsibilities will depend of course on the job position we have, which as you can see below will definitely vary on the type of work we do.
Social workers can work in various settings, to include administrative jobs. Some individuals with social work degrees, for example, write grants, do research and work on fundraiser in agencies that may be not for proft. Social workers work in health care settings (hospice, home health, hospitals, nursing homes); mental health settings (state department of mental health, residential treatment centers, alcohol/drug rehab, etc); dept of social services (child protective services, foster care, investigator, etc); other state jobs may include probation and parole officers; youth services (to include juvenile facilities, counseling, residential); dept of aging (adult protective services, community support worker); maternal health (education, home visits, etc); and other public health positions. Social workers who have their Masters in Social Work and typically a clinical license can work for the federal government, to include the Veterans Administration as well as a civilian working on military installations.
Other positions may include working as a victim advocate; domestic violence shelters; grass roots organizations (i.e. I saw a job looking for a social worker to work for Mothers Against Drunk Driving); organizations/agencies that provide services for those who are homeless (i.e. Salvation Army, catholic charities).
A good online job search is “Indeed” http://www.indeed.com By searching for position in working with youth, youth at risk, etc. this can give you a sense of the qualifications/job duties.
An example of a job description in working with youth is a youth counseling III position with the state of Colorado. Salary: $ 4,969.00 – $ 7,168.00 Monthly. “This position exists to provide leadership and clinical direction to the treatment team at the facility. In addition, this position is experienced in clinical mental health and family interventions and serves as the Clinical Director to provide oversight for the treatment services at the facility.” Minimum Qualifications “Education Requirements: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor’s degree in behavioral science, correctional science, corrections, counseling, counseling psychology, criminal justice, criminology, education, guidance and counseling, helping/human services, human and development, psychology, rehabilitation counseling, social work, sociology or youth and adult corrections.” http://www.colorado.gov/