Our Mission
To provide superior behavioral healthcare services that: clients recommend to families and friends, physicians prefer for their clients, purchasers select for their clients, and employees are proud of.
Our Treatment Philosophy
Stonington Institute’s treatment program draws from medical, psychological and traditional self-help approaches in treating addictions. The Institute also recognizes the overwhelming importance of the client’s motivation to achieve and maintain sobriety. Through education, professional intervention and effective social rehabilitation, it is our belief that everyone can achieve recovery.
The Institute provides a multi-disciplinary intervention involving individualized treatment plans. However, individualization is anchored in some strongly held basic tenets:
- Recovery lies in the abstinence, not in controlled used.
- The treatment process is a collaborative, rather than a dependent relationship, which is directed by the professional toward increasing the client’s independence, responsibility and self-control.
- Self-help groups are of enormous importance in establishing and maintaining social supports to sobriety.
- It is important to integrate the client’s family and other social supports in the treatment process.
- Collaboration with managed care professionals and community resources in the client’s home area facilities a smooth transition to step down care and increased likelihood of sustained recovery.
- Quality and integrity are critical aspects of an effective treatment program.
Our Goals for Treatment
The Institute endorses the following treatment goals:
- To restore the client to a healthier stage of functioning
- To diminish symptoms
- To educate the client and family regarding their illness and treatment resources
- To help the client become a productive citizen of the community
Clinicians use the most appropriate treatment for a given client in the most effective and individualized manner while addressing the client’s bio-psychosocial and educational needs to obtain optimal results. A variety of treatment modalities are utilized. Modalities emphasized are milieu treatment, individual therapy, group therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapy. Participation of the family is strongly encouraged when not contraindicated. Pharmacotherapy is employed when clinically indicated.
The interdisciplinary team of professionals works together to coordinate structured treatment programs that are designed to address the specific needs of each client. Team members work directly with family members, courts, social service agencies, schools, employers, clergy, recovery groups, outpatient therapists, primary care physicians, health maintenance organizations and insurance companies to assist each client’s re-entry into the most positive and supportive environment possible at the time of discharge.
Policies and treatment programs are developed to serve the needs of the client and to assist the professional staff in fulfilling their obligation toward the provision of client care in the most competent and responsible manner.
