Our Family Healing Yours: Treating the Underlying Causes of Substance Use Disorder

Lotus Behavioral Health is an adolescent treatment center in Winter Springs, Florida. We welcome teenagers from all over the city, state, and country who are ready to embark on their recovery journey by treating the underlying causes of substance use disorder. We feature a residential program, an intensive outpatient program (IOP), a day/night partial hospitalization (PHP) program, and an outpatient program. Our services were created to support patients through every level of care.

The mental health of adolescents is tied to their environment. This means that a teen’s home, school, and other places they frequent can affect their well-being and cause behavioral changes.

The Effect of Social Media on Teenagers

With the rise of technology and social media permeating everyone’s lives, the online world has affected the environment teenagers are growing up in. Social media platforms are designed to keep one incessantly scrolling, losing track of time and the physical world.

The American Psychological Association Chief Science Officer Mitch Prinstein, Ph.D., noted the effect of social media and technology on today’s youth. As children become teenagers, they begin to seek attention and validation from their peers. Social rewards in the past may have materialized as the result of an invitation to hang out with friends or a compliment related to a new outfit.

However, in today’s age, this external gratification can instead come from likes, views, or followers. Because social media is a constant realm with few-to-no limitations, the incessant scroll becomes arduous for teenagers to overcome in fear of missing out on something.

As a result, the use of technology disrupts sleep patterns and attention spans while simultaneously creating pressure and stress on teenagers. The internet, as a limitless space, has the ability to glamorize toxic thinking and unhealthy coping mechanisms. It can expose teenagers to content their brains are not equipped to handle and rationalize.

With the internet becoming a focal part of a teenager’s environment, it can inevitably affect their mental and behavioral state. In this state, teenagers are more likely to be susceptible to reaching for drugs, alcohol, or other substances as temporary relief, especially when surrounded by others who do the same.

These unprecedented circumstances provide new challenges in raising teenagers. Parents will run down the search engine rabbit hole, trying to understand the changes they see in their children. What are the signs and symptoms of my teen using drugs or alcohol? What is substance abuse? How do you treat substance use disorder in teens? At Lotus Behavioral Health, our goal is to help restore wholeness to your teenager and your family through communication and family healing.

Programs Tailored to Treat Substance Use in Teens

Lotus Behavioral Health offers four different services to treat substance use in teens aged 12 to 17. We have created a comprehensive program to re-establish healthy adolescent behavior while developing a successful transition back into the family, home, school, and community environment. Our residential program takes an integrative treatment approach by including:

• A minimum of 30 hours of clinical and activity therapy each week
• 20 hours of academic study and tutoring
• A structured routine with nutritious meals, sufficient sleep, and regular physical activity
• A family component that educates those closest to the patient on how to support the youth through communication skills and routines

For teenagers transitioning out of residential treatment or in need of a different form of care, Lotus Behavioral Health also offers outpatient services, an intensive outpatient program, and a day/night partial hospitalization program. These various programs are tailored to meet the recovery needs of your teenager.

Our day/night partial hospitalization program is similar in structure to the residential program, offering four to five hours of programming daily. However, the patient continues to reside at their home.

Our intensive outpatient program requires nine hours of therapy. Patients meet three times a week for group sessions. The primary therapist holds two additional sessions, one with the individual and one with the family. Here, patients learn healthy coping mechanisms, work on self-esteem and empowerment, and relapse-prevention development. IOP is ideal for those who have completed a residential or PHP program and are looking for a way to structure therapy into their day-to-day life as they maintain other responsibilities.

Our least intensive level of care is our outpatient services, which are dependent on the client’s needs. While treatment is tailored to each patient, it is centered around Lotus Behavioral Health’s core value of taking a whole-person approach with a strong family component.

As a Center of Excellence for teenagers, Lotus Behavioral Health is equipped to provide guidance, support, and structure for your child to recover from substance use disorder and co-occurring mental health disorders. To be a teenager or a parent in today’s age provides unprecedented challenges, and our family is here to help heal yours.

To receive more information about our adolescent programs, contact us for an intake consultation at (833) 948-2273 or visit our website.