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Shalom House is an unaccredited Christian faith-based drug rehabilitation facility [1] located in the Swan Valley about 23 kilometres north of Perth in Western Australia. Operating since 2012, it claims to be the strictest rehabilitation centre in Australia [2] and utilises an ineffectual tough love model to treat residents. [1]
Global Teen Challenge is a network of Christian faith-based corporations intended to provide rehabilitation services to people struggling with addiction. It was founded by David Wilkerson in 1960. The global headquarters is in Columbus, Georgia, United States. There is little public record of what goes on in Teen Challenge facilities. [1]
Faith-based and 12-step programs, despite the fact that they had little experience with drug addicts in the late 1960s and early 1970s.” The number of drug treatment facilities boomed with federal funding and the steady expansion of private insurance coverage for addiction, going from a mere handful in the 1950s to thousands a few decades later.
In the 1990s, the number of children entering RTCs increased dramatically, leading to a policy shift from institution- based services to a family-centered community system of care. [5] This also reflected the lack of appropriate treatment resources. However, residential treatment centers have continued to grow and today house over 50,000 ...
The Second Chance Program was established by Rick Pendery, a former real estate developer and veteran Scientologist. [1] During the 1970s he worked for Narconon, [2] a drug rehabilitation program linked with the Church of Scientology, [3] eventually becoming Executive Director for the U.S.-wide organization. [2]
It's New Year's, a time for us to consider what resolutions mean to us. "Sunday Morning" correspondent Faith Salie talks about how to stay present in our lives as time marches on.
The Foundation also includes the nation's largest addiction and recovery publishing house, a fully accredited graduate school of addiction studies, an addiction research center, prevention training, an education arm for medical professionals, family members, and other loved ones, and a children's program. [4]
SMART Recovery is based on scientific knowledge and is intended to evolve as scientific knowledge evolves. [4] The program uses principles of motivational interviewing, found in motivational enhancement therapy (MET), [5] and techniques taken from rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), as well as scientifically validated research on treatment. [6]