Behavioral Health Services of South Georgia – Cook Mental Health

Behavioral Health Services of South Georgia, Cook Mental Health office is located in Adel, Georgia. They provide adult behavioral health services using evidence-based practices to address mental health and substance use disorders. Their outpatient programs are designed for adults 18 years and older who have psychiatric disorders or behavioral health conditions that may require individual, group, or family counseling.

Your evidence-based program is designed around a comprehensive evaluation that helps identify your substance use disorder or co-occurring mental health condition. Your program may include cognitive behavioral interventions that have been adapted to the criminal justice population or those who have moderate to high substance abuse challenges.

The curriculum can be delivered on its own or incorporated into a larger program. They place a heavy emphasis on skill building activities to help you develop coping strategies and reduce recidivism. Dialectical behavior therapy and Eye Movement and Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) may also be included to help you recover from trauma or other distressing life experiences that may contribute to substance use disorders or mental health conditions.

Your program may also include Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT), which is a type of cognitive treatment designed specifically for people with substance abuse and who have experience with the criminal justice system. Motivational interviewing may also be applied alongside medication assisted treatment and assistance in finding stable housing within the community.

Each of these steps is important to promote and support sobriety. Case management is provided to connect you with community services and to help learn basic skills that are associated with your daily living activities so you can achieve your treatment goals.

Assertive Community Treatment is a highly intensive and evidence based service that is mostly used for people who have serious or persistent mental illness. It utilizes a multidisciplinary team approach to address vocational rehabilitation and co-occurring substance use disorder treatment. They work with most of the local insurance providers and offer you a way of paying your bill online.