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About Diakon Behavioral Health Services
For over 55 years, Diakon Behavioral Health Services in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, has satisfied the mental health needs of adults, adolescents, children and families across Pennsylvania’s Capital and Upper Susquehanna region. The agency promotes healthy relationships using a positive and strengths-based technique that helps you manage everything from addiction and crisis to the sense that life could be more fulfilling. They equip you with tools that let you see beyond the foggy clouds and take meaningful steps toward regaining balance and control.
Services span compassionate counseling, family-based mental health support and specialties like substance use recovery, trauma-informed therapy and school-based behavioral services for adolescents. In addition, they provide family-based services for problematic sexual behaviors, medication assisted treatment for opioid use and psychiatric care. To maintain accessibility the agency accepts most major insurance and offers an income-based sliding fee scale for the uninsured, ensuring no one is denied care due to an inability to pay.
Diakon Behavioral Health Services operates from over five locations across the region, including this site on Century Drive in Mechanicsburg that specializes in medication assisted treatment (MAT). This facility lies less than a mile west of the Mechanicsburg Commercial Historic District and the Irving Female College, and about two miles southeast of Willow Mill Park. They support youths, adults and families navigating opioid use challenges and co-occurring mental health challenges throughout Cumberland County.
Medication-Supported Recovery
MAT is a science-backed technique that fosters long-term abstinence by pairing FDA-approved medications with counseling. After intake assessment, you may be prescribed Suboxone or methadone as part of your personalized recovery plan at this center. These medications ease withdrawal symptoms, reduce cravings, normalize your brain chemistry and support your path to sustained recovery.
Through regular therapeutic engagement, you’ll develop effective coping skills, build emotional resilience and strengthen your strategies to prevent relapse. Your tailored care may also include ongoing psychiatric evaluations and medication management to address co-occurring mental health challenges and promote emotional stability. It’s all about providing the right support at the right time to help you build a strong foundation for long-term success.
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Self-pay involves paying for treatment out of your own pocket. You can use savings or credit, get a personal loan, or receive help from family and friends to fund your treatment. If you don't have insurance or your insurance plan doesn't cover a specific program, self-pay can help ensure you still get the care you need.
Addiction Treatments
Levels of Care
Outpatient Programs (OP) are for those seeking mental rehab or drug rehab, but who also stay at home every night. The main difference between outpatient treatment (OP) and intensive outpatient treatment (IOP) lies in the amount of hours the patient spends at the facility. Most of the time an outpatient program is designed for someone who has completed an inpatient stay and is looking to continue their growth in recovery. Outpatient is not meant to be the starting point, it is commonly referred to as aftercare.
Completing a drug or alcohol rehab program shouldn't spell the end of substance abuse treatment. Aftercare involves making a sustainable plan for recovery, including ongoing support. This can include sober living arrangements like halfway houses, career counseling, and setting a patient up with community programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA).
Treatments
The goal of treatment for alcoholism is abstinence. Those with poor social support, poor motivation, or psychiatric disorders tend to relapse within a few years of treatment. For these people, success is measured by longer periods of abstinence, reduced use of alcohol, better health, and improved social functioning. Recovery and Maintenance are usually based on 12 step programs and AA meetings.
Drug rehab in Pennsylvania is devoted to the treatment of addiction. Levels of care, treatment methods, and settings differ, but the aim of each program is to end drug dependency and empower participants to achieve long-term recovery.
A combined mental health and substance abuse rehab has the staff and resources available to handle individuals with both mental health and substance abuse issues. It can be challenging to determine where a specific symptom stems from (a mental health issue or an issue related to substance abuse), so mental health and substance abuse professionals are helpful in detangling symptoms and keeping treatment on track.
Opioid rehabs specialize in supporting those recovering from opioid addiction. They treat those suffering from addiction to illegal opioids like heroin, as well as prescription drugs like oxycodone. These centers typically combine both physical as well as mental and emotional support to help stop addiction. Physical support often includes medical detox and subsequent medical support (including medication), and mental support includes in-depth therapy to address the underlying causes of addiction.
Programs
Adult rehab programs include therapies tailored to each client's specific needs, goals, and recovery progress. They are tailored to the specific challenges adult clients may face, including family and work pressures and commitments. From inpatient and residential treatment to various levels of outpatient services, there are many options available. Some facilities also help adults work through co-occurring conditions, like anxiety, that can accompany addiction.
Young adulthood can be an exciting, yet difficult, time of transition. Individuals in their late teens to mid-20s face unique stressors related to school, jobs, families, and social circles, which can lead to a rise in substance use. Rehab centers with dedicated young adult programs will include activities and amenities that cater to this age group, with an emphasis on specialized counseling, peer socialization, and ongoing aftercare.
Clinical Services
Whether a marriage or other committed relationship, an intimate partnership is one of the most important aspects of a person's life. Drug and alcohol addiction affects both members of a couple in deep and meaningful ways, as does rehab and recovery. Couples therapy and other couples-focused treatment programs are significant parts of exploring triggers of addiction, as well as learning how to build healthy patterns to support ongoing sobriety.
Research clearly demonstrates that recovery is far more successful and sustainable when loved ones like family members participate in rehab and substance abuse treatment. Genetic factors may be at play when it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, as well as mental health issues. Family dynamics often play a critical role in addiction triggers, and if properly educated, family members can be a strong source of support when it comes to rehabilitation.
Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). There are a number of different group therapy modalities, including support groups, experiential therapy, psycho-education, and more. Group therapy involves treatment as well as processing interaction between group members.
In individual therapy, a patient meets one-on-one with a trained psychologist or counselor. Therapy is a pivotal part of effective substance abuse treatment, as it often covers root causes of addiction, including challenges faced by the patient in their social, family, and work/school life.
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960 Century Drive
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
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