Effective Treatment Begins With Careful Assessment

The assessment process at Spero Retreat of Beverly Hills is paramount to the success of each patient’s treatment. The key to successful treatment for medical, psychiatric or addiction disorders requires an accurate diagnosis, and the only way to accomplish this efficiently is to undergo a thorough and complete immediately upon your arrival at the beautiful 10-acre retreat in Beverly Hills. Your stay begins with an intake session, or a simple psycho-social evaluation to get a feel for who you are and what you need. The clinical team at Spero, however, takes this basic procedure three steps further to make sure that all of your medical, mental, and physical issues are revealed. In this way, you are guaranteed a comprehensive, integrated treatment that will provide you with the care and treatment you need during your stay with us.

During the intake evaluation, your personal clinical team will take a thorough physiological and psychiatric history, looking for symptoms that may signify underlying psychiatric or medical conditions. The link between the brain and the body are tenacious, and psychiatric illnesses and addiction disorders are not always the primary problem. It is far more likely that an imbalance or blockage in the body is present, a nutritional issue or allergic reaction is in play or any one of a number of other issues that are so often overlooked. Our clinical director will personally assess your symptoms and other data collected during the initial evaluation. Using this information, she will choose a unique set of simple tests and scans for you to undergo in order to ascertain what is truly happening in your body. This will be different for everyone, but in general, you can expect metabolic tests, hormone panels if applicable as well as a variety of scans using cutting edge equipment and analyzed by professionals who are specialists in their fields of expertise.
During the first three or four days of your stay at Spero Retreat in Beverly Hills, you will undertake the tests recommended to you personally by our clinical director. For example, metabolic issues including brain/blood flow, neurotoxins, and other toxin levels are a commonly overlooked and underlying cause of many psychiatric disorders and addictions. In order to rule these out, we take a complete metabolic panel and allow our resident experts to examine and assess your results to pinpoint the exact treatment you need.

Hormone imbalances are another issue that can manifest themselves psychiatrically, so hormone panels are recommended for some of our patients. In other cases, neuro-scans and neuro-feedback tests are appropriate depending upon which pathogen or allergy is suspected. We use an intra-active metronome or single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scan to supply two-dimensional and three-dimensional scans of the brain that our expert neuro-immunologists will use to rule out a number of possibilities including:

  • Head injuries
  • Cysts
  • Metabolic problems
  • Complicated organic conditions
  • Significant psychopathology
  • Comorbidity

 

While you undergo these tests, you will stay with us here at Spero in luxurious accommodations complete with 24-hour onsite support staff and gourmet food service. You will also begin psychological and psychosocial therapy immediately through an number of different modalities including holistic, alternative treatments as well as traditional 12-step support groups. Life coaching, counseling, and personal assistance is supplied by experts in each disorder and should your presence be required back in the “real world” during treatment, we will make sure that you are transported there and return to us safely. Spero Retreat in Beverly Hills is the world leader in assessment, the most important part of any drug treatment facility. If you don’t know what’s wrong you can’t treat it. To that end, we have created a personalized assessment process that is second to none.
 
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How Accurate Diagnoses Affect Treatment Outcomes

Why is an "Assessment" so important to effective alcohol and drug rehabilitation? The philosophy of Spero Retreat in Beverly Hills is simple: without an accurate diagnosis, no treatment will be successful. In order to get an accurate diagnosis, you need evidence-based evaluations. A comprehensive, multidisciplinary evaluation is necessary to pinpoint the problem or problems that so many are suffering from, especially those with psychological disorders and addictions.
Evidence-Based Diagnoses are Important 
In the past, addiction and substance abuse issue were treated by utilizing a "one size fits all" methodology.  These types of treatment worked to some degree, but as you would imagine they involved a significant amount of guesswork as to the root causes of the individual's problem.  Evidence based diagnoses on the other hand leave no question as to the source of the addiction issues.  Tests and assessments clearly illustrate which parts of an individual's physiology are not functioning properly, and allow the treatment professionals to address those specific areas.
Thorough Analysis by Experts and Specialists 
Once all your assessments and evaluations are complete, the results will be given a comprehensive review by our team of experts.  Every member of the Spero staff has been chosen for their experience in research and analysis of SPECT scans, Hormonal Assessments and other cutting edge methodologies that get right to the heart of the problem. By analyzing your data in such a complete manner, the Spero staff is able to create the most effective forms of treatment available.
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