New Roads Adds Joellyn Manville, LCSW to the Team
Joellyn Manville, Clinical Director
Joellyn joins New Roads as Clinical Director. She has extensive experience in the field of inpatient substance abuse. Her background includes direct services to individuals, groups and families, as well as in administration, supervision, and program development. Her training and experience integrates psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral approaches to healthy individuation, the development of positive self esteem, and trauma resolution.
Joellyn brings sensitivity and compassion to her expertise in restructuring patterns of self-regulation and motivation and the development of substance-free coping and social interaction. She embodies a love of the outdoors and a passion for healthy living.
Closing the Gap in Young Adult Drug Treatment
Recent research shows the most difficult demographic of addicts to get into and provide drug rehab for is the young adult population. Millions of young adults in the US are current users of illicit drugs. The highest percentage of drug use is between the ages of young adults 18-20.
Substance abuse in the young adult population is highly associated with delinquency, low education achievement, suicide and other personal and family issues. Not all substance abusers attain severe dependence, however a lot of them need specialized and specific treatment at a young adult drug rehab facility. There is a significant gap between young people in need of rehab and those that are actually fortunate enough to be receiving addiction treatment.
8.4 percent of 18-25 year olds in the United States are in need of some sort of help for addiction, but under a tenth of them ever get it. This treatment gap is linked to a public concern regarding the effectiveness and quality of the facilities and programs that are currently in the industry. A lot of individuals working in the healthcare setting feel that there is not a lot that can be done as far as substance abuse is concerned. There is however, new empirically validated research supporting new kinds treatment approaches for consistent positive outcomes.