At The Recovery Academy, we believe that effective treatment starts with understanding you as a whole person. Our comprehensive diagnostic assessment process helps us create a treatment plan that fits your specific needs and circumstances.
Getting To Know You: Our Assessment Approach
Everyone’s story is different. That’s why we use several proven assessment tools to understand your unique situation.
Substance Use Assessment (SUA)
We take time to understand your relationship with substances through a thorough but compassionate evaluation process. Our assessment looks at:
- Your Current Situation: Physical health, substance use patterns, and recent life changes and stressors.
- Your Personal History: Family history and background, early childhood, previous treatments, and relationships.
- Your Daily Life: How substance use affects your routine, energy, work, relationships, sleep, eating patterns, and more.
- Your Recovery Goals: What you want to achieve in treatment, your vision for a healthy future, specific changes you want to make, and skills you want to develop.
- Your Strengths and Resources: Abilities, talents, interests, activities, supportive relationships, career, and education.
This detailed assessment helps us understand not just the challenges you face but also the strengths you have. We use this information to create a treatment plan that builds on your capabilities while addressing your needs.
Functional Behavioral Assessment
Functional behavioral assessments are tools for understanding the potential causes and consequences of behavior. Our functional behavioral assessment for Minnesota clients helps us look at areas of daily life that may connect to certain negative choices or actions. Some of these include:
- Daily Tasks: Everyday tasks and responsibilities, current routines, and time management.
- Life Structure: Work or education commitments, living situation and environment, and community.
- Emotional Situations: How you handle stress, grief, and life’s unexpected challenges.
- Social Situations: Communication patterns or relationships with friends, family, etc.
Through this assessment, we can discover your personal strengths, identify any triggers you have, and choose ideal care services.
Mental Health Functional Assessment
For our clients in Minnesota, a mental health functional assessment helps us understand how mental illness affects your life. This thorough evaluation looks at several key areas that impact your daily functioning, such as:
- Social Skills and Relationships: How you connect with others, your comfort in social situations, ability to work with teams, and relationship with authority figures.
- Handling Change: How well you adapt to new situations and your response to unexpected changes.
- Reliability and Responsibility: Following through on commitments, managing daily tasks, maintaining routines, and meeting deadlines.
- Behavior Management: Control over impulses, managing anger or frustration, and behaving appropriately in different settings.
- Emotional Well-Being: Managing feelings effectively and maintaining emotional balance.
- Decision Making: Solving everyday problems and planning for the future.
- Thinking and Memory: Concentration, focus, memory, learning, completing tasks, and organizing.
LOCUS for Minnesota Assessments: Ensuring the Right Level of Care
In combination with other assessment tools, we use the Level of Care Utilization System (LOCUS) to make sure you receive the support you need. This system, developed by the American Association of Community Psychiatrists, helps us:
- Ask the right questions about your situation
- Evaluate your needs accurately
- Place you in the most helpful level of care
- Track your progress during treatment
- Adjust your care plan as needed
Why Proper Assessment Matters
Think of our assessment process like creating a map for your recovery journey. Just as you wouldn’t start a trip without knowing where you’re going, we believe treatment works best when we understand the following:
- Where you are now
- Where you want to be
- What support you need to get there
Our assessment tools help us work with you to create a treatment plan that fits your lifestyle and preferences. They also enable us to identify the most effective therapies for you.
The Recovery Academy Difference
We help men facing all types of mental health and substance abuse challenges. Our goal is to help clients get the help they need by finding the best method that works for them. We provide evidence-based care and compassionate support that focuses on the individual. We offer everything from intensive residential treatment services to transitional living.
What Sets Us Apart
- Our programs serve men ages 18-36
- We offer both mental health services and substance use disorder treatment
- Our approach combines accountability with compassion
- We offer a variety of recovery programs and support services
Our Promise to You
We understand that seeking help takes courage. Our assessment process isn’t just about gathering information— it’s about building trust and showing you that recovery is possible.
Take Your First Step
Ready to start your recovery journey? Our caring team of mental health professionals is here to guide you through the assessment process. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you build the future you want.
