About Merit Family Services – Fort Worth
Merit Family Services was a nonprofit organization in Fort Worth, Texas. Their mental health and substance use disorder services were a cornerstone of the work they provided to the local community. This included dual diagnosis treatment for individuals who had a drug or alcohol condition and a co-occurring mental health disorder.
They worked with individuals who had multiple mental health conditions, including bipolar disorder. The program focused on treating both substance use disorder and mental health conditions simultaneously since these conditions typically interact with each other.
The substance use disorder treatment program was provided as an outpatient service when you were starting your recovery journey or experienced a relapse. The program provided a safe and secure environment using individual, group, family and couples therapy settings to address your needs. Your program also typically included psychoeducation to learn more about your condition, relapse prevention and anger management. Clients were also introduced to the 12 Step recovery program to support their sobriety.
They also offer gender specific therapy for men and women. The program was developed to help improve your potential for long-term recovery as well as address and educate you about addiction and the physical and psychological benefits of ongoing recovery. Within the multispecialty outpatient clinic, you also had access to mental health care using an integrative approach.
They believed that mental health and substance use disorders should not take a cookie cutter approach. Depending on your goals, they may have offered a systemic, experiential or humanistic approach. The goal was to provide a non-judgmental environment that allowed you to explore areas of your life that were negatively influencing your overall quality of life. They also offered holistic approaches including art therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy and play therapy.
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