Therapeutic Adult Services
“I wasn’t arrested. I was rescued.” Court involvement often indicates a need for a greater range of perceptual and procedural tools for ensuring one’s freedom and respecting the community at large. NIC’s wide range of court-ordered treatments provides these tools through dynamic therapists / trainers, who integrate the NIC Model with a practical, hands-on learning style and application in each program. The vast majority of NIC’s clients very quickly realize their arrest is an opportunity to once again embrace the life they may have forgotten, and be provided with tools for accessing this life, while respecting those around them.
Anger Management
Everyone has expressed their anger, at times, in a manner that was less than honorable. Our Anger Management program is a 12-24 week group therapy that integrates NIC’s unique Model (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, and Exposure Therapy) with the best research on stress management, impulse control, and interpersonal skills training to empower men and women to honor personal, interpersonal and legal boundaries.
Every NIC program utilizes the following process:
- Initial Intake Assessment
- Ongoing Strategy Design
- Strategy Implementation in Group
- Strategy Implementation outside of Group
- Strategy Modification
- Strategy Reimplementation
Cognitive Restructuring
This program is for anyone who has violated legal boundaries and seeks a perceptual and behavioral set of tools to ensure prosocial decision-making in the future. Our Cognitive Restructuring program is a 20 week group therapy that integrates NIC’s unique Model (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, and Exposure Therapy) with the best research on Cognitive Restructuring concepts and tools to empower men and women with a prosocial internal framework for making sound decisions.
Every NIC program utilizes the following process:
- Initial Intake Assessment
- Ongoing Strategy Design
- Strategy Implementation in Group
- Strategy Implementation outside of Group
- Strategy Modification
- Strategy Reimplementation
Diagnostic Evaluations
Anger Management Evaluations
Domestic Violence Evaluations
Mental Health Evaluations
Substance Abuse Evaluations
Our evaluative services incorporate the following tools to assess and provide a comprehensive treatment plan for the court-ordered client:
- Biopsychosocial Inventory
- Clinical Interview
- Collateral Interview(s) as available
- Collateral Report(s) as available
- Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Health Disorders IV-TR (DSM) Criteria (Axis I, II, III, IV, V)
- Mental Status Examination
- Additional instruments are utilized based on type of diagnistic evaluation.
Domestic Violence
Our domestic violence program is designed to assist individuals with the necessary tools to cease domestic abuse in all forms – emotional, mental, verbal, physical, sexual, and economic. Our Men’s Domestic Violence program and Women’s Domestic Violence program is typically a 36-week group therapy that integrates NIC’s unique Model (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, and Exposure Therapy) with the best research on domestic violence assessment, treatment and containment.
Every NIC program utilizes the following process:
- Initial Intake Assessment
- Ongoing Strategy Design
- Strategy Implementation in Group
- Strategy Implementation outside of Group
- Strategy Modification
- Strategy Reimplementation
DUI Education/Therapy (Level I & II)
This program integrates the Driving With Care Curriculum with various components of NIC’s unique Model (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, and Exposure Therapy) to provide individuals with the necessary tools to make prosocial decisions relative to drinking behaviors and driving choices. This program assesses an individual’s use, abuse and/or dependence, and tailors an individual’s treatment accordingly. NIC provides Substance Abuse Monitoring, as well.
- Track A
- Track B
- Track C
- Track D
Grief Therapy
Behind the temper, the substance abuse, and other poor choices, often lies an unresolved loss. At NIC we have found that, in many cases, the poor choices can be traced back to the very moment an individual lost someone they loved. Provided the proper tools to embrace their grief honestly, and work through the many painful ‘tales’ associated with their loss, many of NIC’s clients have been able to set aside criminal thinking and self-sabotage, and embrace the life they left at the grave of their loved one. Our Grief Therapy program is a program that integrates NIC’s unique Model (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, and Exposure Therapy) with the best research on grief and loss research and application.
Every NIC program utilizes the following process:
- Initial Intake Assessment
- Ongoing Strategy Design
- Strategy Implementation in Group
- Strategy Implementation outside of Group
- Strategy Modification
- Strategy Reimplementation
Life Skills
This program is designed to assist individuals with the necessary tools to build rapport with the world around them, and ensure self-efficacy through practical implementation of appropriate attire, manners, hygiene, hand-shake, eye contact, phone mannerisms, budgeting, transportation strategies, job applications, job interviewing, maintaining gainful employment, and enhanced interpersonal skill-building.
Every NIC program utilizes the following process:
- Initial Intake Assessment
- Ongoing Strategy Design
- Strategy Implementation in Group
- Strategy Implementation outside of Group
- Strategy Modification
- Strategy Reimplementation
Men's Group
Getting arrested is a wake-up call for many men that it is time to stop acting like a child and enter into the responsibility and freedom of manhood. This 10-week program outlines a rite of passage, utilizing the following concepts: Identity & Self-Esteem; Cognitive Restructuring & Pivotal Events; Lessons & Models; Personal Responsibility; Ideals (Commitments vs Rationalizations’) & Criminal Thinking; Stages of Change, Victim Empathy (Drugs / Alcohol & Theft) & Making Repairs; Victim Empathy (Domestic Violence & Child Maltreatment) & Making Repairs; Anger & Stress Management; Communication & Assertiveness; Prosocial Risk-Taking & Sustaining Change (Identifying & Eliciting Team Change)
Every NIC program utilizes the following process:
- Initial Intake Assessment
- Ongoing Strategy Design
- Strategy Implementation in Group
- Strategy Implementation outside of Group
- Strategy Modification
- Strategy Reimplementation
Mental Health
We tailor our unique Model (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, and Exposure Therapy) to strategically facilitate individuals struggling with adjustment, anxiety, depression, grief and/or trauma from compensating for deficiencies to accessing hidden and often forgotten strengths and unrealized potential. We build rapport with the individual in this process, and pace the therapeutic work based on the individual’s readiness to change.
Every NIC program utilizes the following process:
- Initial Intake Assessment
- Ongoing Strategy Design
- Strategy Implementation in Session
- Strategy Implementation outside of Session
- Strategy Modification
- Strategy Reimplementation
Parenting Cognitive Restructuring Groups
Group therapy services are provided to parents involved in the child welfare system, those parenting youth on probation, and parents currently being supervised by probation, so that safety, permanency and well-being are achieved for families. Participants attend a minimum of 10 weeks of Cognitive Restructuring Group Therapy based on ongoing client assessment and progress.
Most parenting groups are based on a psychoeducational model, providing information regarding child development, communication and discipline skills. However, most parents involved with the justice and child welfare systems need therapeutic intervention to develop an understanding of how their behaviors, relationships and maladaptive thinking impact their children. This service provides parents the opportunity to develop an understanding of these realities, and to have experiential, relatable and interactive group therapy with other parents to develop new, appropriate ways of interacting with and parenting their children.
Every NIC program utilizes the following process:
- Initial Intake Assessment
- Ongoing Strategy Design
- Strategy Implementation in Group
- Strategy Implementation outside of Group
- Strategy Modification
- Strategy Reimplementation
Substance Abuse Cognitive Restructuring
This 20-week group therapy program is designed specifically to address the Substance User, Substance Abuser, and Substance Dependent. Treatment is tailored to the client’s substance of choice: Alcohol, Cocaine, Heroin, Marijuana, Methamphetamines, Prescription Pills. This program integrates the strategies for self improvement curriculum with various components of NIC’s unique Model (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, and Exposure Therapy) to provide individuals with the necessary tools and relapse prevention plans to maintain sobriety.
Every NIC program utilizes the following process:
- Initial Intake Assessment
- Ongoing Strategy Design
- Strategy Implementation in Group
- Strategy Implementation outside of Group
- Strategy Modification
- Strategy Reimplementation
Substance Abuse Monitoring
NIC’s Urine Analysis (UA) Call-In Line is provided to ensure random monitoring. When clients call, they listen for their ‘Word of the Day,’ which determines whether they will be required to submit a UA or Breathalyzer that same day. NIC uses ‘Words’ such as ‘Resilience’, ‘Strength’, ‘Perseverance’, etc. to facilitate change at every encounter with NIC clients. All of our Urine Analysis’ are strictly monitored to ensure chain of command accuracy.