Williamsville Wellness

Williamsville Wellness is the only licensed gambling addiction treatment facility in North America, and one of three addiction centers in the United States to offer treatment for compulsive gambling. This center has an unusually high patient to staff ratio (1:1 at most times), offers unique programs beyond the standard 12-step program, and uses several leading-edge technologies for feedback during treatment.

Williamsville Wellness Center, Front View

North American Gambling Treatment Centers

In general, gambling addiction treatment is considered an add-on to other addiction treatments. All treatment centers that offer gambling addiction treatment in North America treat gambling in addition to alcohol addiction and other substances addictions.[1]

Williamsville Wellness has a higher percentage of gamblers in treatment than the other facilities, ranging from 25% to 50% of the total patients receiving treatment. Williamsville Wellness currently is only able to take 26 patients for intensive on-site (residential) treatment at a time.

Unique Aspects

Williamsville Wellness is the only licensed gambling treatment center in North America, and is so licensed by the state of Virginia.[2] They maintain separate websites for general addiction treatment[3] and gambling treatment,[4] even though both are done at the same facility.

The industry average for individual treatment is 1.5 hours per day across all addiction rehabilitation programs in North America.[5] One newer rehabilitation facility, that does not treat gambling, offers six hours a week of individual treatment and a net of 6 hours a day of treatment programs.[6]

The Williamsville team has more one on one time with residents than any other facility in the US, with a goal of 18 hours a week of individual therapy treatment.[7] The staff to patient ratio is normally 1:1.[8] This intense individual treatment is a practice encouraged by independent addiction treatment experts.[5][9][10][11]

Additionally, the Williamsville staff test and evaluate for practical use innovations in health care and feedback. The "SMART"[12] Intensive Outpatient Therapy[13] has always used some form of monitoring feedback for patients.[14] Currently under evaluation is the new AmpStrip[15] in their fitness treatment, and the use of facial recognition software for additional emotional feedback in outpatient therapy.[16][17]

Facilities

The facilities are a historic landmark, designated by the US Department of the Interior.

Designation of Historic Landmark by the US Department of the Interior for Williamsville Wellness center.

In the News

Williamsville Wellness, its residents, or its founder (Bob Cabaniss) have been featured in MTV's True Life,[18] the New York Post,[19] A&E's Intervention,[20] CBS,[21] and numerous times by the Richmond Times Dispatch.[22][23][24]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "INPATIENT, RESIDENTIAL AND INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY LIST". Retrieved May 27, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Williamsville Wellness Treatment License" (PDF). Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Williamsville Wellness Substance Addiction Website". Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Williamsville Wellness Gambling Website". Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  5. 1 2 Anne Fletcher (2013). Inside Rehab. New York. ISBN 978-0-670-02522-0.
  6. ↑ "Banyan Treatment, Fort Lauderdale, FL". Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Bob Cabaniss, Williamsville Wellness YouTube Channel". Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Williamsville Wellness Staff". Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  9. ↑ JANE E. BRODY (February 4, 2013). "NY Times, Effective Addiction Treatment".
  10. ↑ Sandra Rasmussen (2015). Ready, Set, Go! Addiction Management for People in Recovery. Bloomingham, IN: Balboa Press. pp. 17–25. ISBN 978-1-5043-2642-1.
  11. ↑ J. Wesley Boyd (2012). Almost Addicted. Center City, MN: Hazelden. pp. 219–224. ISBN 978-1-61649-101-7.
  12. ↑ "SMART Recovery Webpage". Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Williamsville Wellness Outpatient Therapy Website". Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  14. ↑ "Williamsville Wellness Outpatient Therapy Smart Feature Page". Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  15. ↑ "AmpStrip Product Website". Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  16. ↑ "NViso Facial Recognition Overview" (PDF). Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  17. ↑ "Emotient Technology Academic Reviews". Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  18. ↑ "Corey on MTV's True Life, I'm a Gambler, Season 13". Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  19. ↑ Lenn Robbins. "Liberty could get up to $1M from Foxwoods". Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  20. ↑ "A&E, Intervention, Season 6 Episode 11, Feb 23, 2009, "Intervention In-Depth: Compulsive Gambling" YouTube excerpt". Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  21. ↑ JOE ST. GEORGE. "Is online fantasy betting legal in Virginia?". Retrieved September 20, 2015.
  22. ↑ "Richmond Times Dispatch Williamsville Pictures". Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  23. ↑ WESLEY P. HESTER. "Hanover gambling treatment center featured on MTV". Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  24. ↑ Paula Otto; VA Lottery Director. "Otto: Don't chance problem gambling; have the conversation". Retrieved May 26, 2015.
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