NC Recovery Core

North Carolina recovery core

Recovery is moving toward quality of life

People should feel free and encouraged to create their own personal definition of recovery. NC Recovery CORE wants to assist others in building a quality life worth living, not a life that is free of problems or challenges. We strive to model being connected to personal values, and actively moving toward who and what is most important to each individual.

Evidence Based Processes can make this happen

Evidence based practices and evidence based treatments are driven by evidence based processes. The 3 processes that CORE focuses on are therapy supports and skills driven by contemporary Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, connection to strong social supports with safe and understanding people, and the effective use of medications and medical supports.

How and why are they combined?

Diagnostic labels can be helpful to some but confusing to others. We are all people who experience thoughts, emotions, urges, physical sensations, and live in the context of our relationships with others. Understand the move toward "trans-diagnostic" processes that anyone can apply to create a more satisfying life.

Trauma Informed Care

What are the driving forces behind the abuse, misuse and addiction to chemical substances and other processes? The addiction epidemic can only be understood and effectively understood as a response to trauma, an attempt to adapt to pain with the resourced perceived as available and effective. Put your finger on the cause of many confusing behaviors that are all serving the function of regulating discomfort. Behaviors have a purpose and they can be understood, making therm more predictable and controllable.

therapy, relationships & the medical model: a new synergy

Community 1: Behavioral health clinicians

Understand, deliver and document evidence based therapy processes targeting MA level practitioners especially to target the training gaps between MA and clinical psychologists in ability to understand and deliver evidenced based practices from the clinician, teacher researcher model. Better prepare yourself for ongoing changes in reimbursement reform.

Community 2: The recovery community

12 step models and beyond. Understanding 12 step facilitation as an effective evidence based model. Emphasizing strong social support and healthier connections as a basic component of human well being

Community 3: The medical community

More successfully interact with doctors, pharmacists, dentists and nurses by becoming more fluent in DSM, and the 5 primary categories of pharmacology interventions most relevant to behavioral health providers: anti-depressants, mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, addictive meds with greatest potential for abuse and misuse, and Medication Assisted Treatments for Opioid Use Disorders.

Core: Combined recovery evidence-based processes