Summary My internship, Friends of Youth, is closely connected with Lakeside Milam Recovery Centers and so I decided it would be a great place to learn more in case I needed help refer any of my clients to them. To get more information about Lakeside Milam I spoke with the administrator, Dan Labuda, and Burien Hospice Director, Mary Fredrickson. Dan gave me information about Lakeside Milam as a whole, while Mary gave me an overview of the hospital treatment and took me on a tour of Lakeside Milam. The first thing I realized during my tour was that I felt really uncomfortable. Mary explained to me that the hospital facility we were visiting, which houses teenagers and young women, was once before a hospital and that's exactly how it felt. The main entrance to the facility was welcoming, but as soon as we walked through the doors from the waiting room into the facility it felt cold, plain and scary. During the tour, I saw patients taking naps in their rooms (with the doors open), teenage patients talking together in the playroom, and patients from the young women's program grouping together. Mary provided a very detailed tour and explanation of their inpatient program. Treatment Treatment for addictions is multivariate. When examining appropriate treatments it is important to consider the therapeutic context, the therapeutic approach, what is important when treating different age groups, as well as the simultaneous treatment of addiction and mental health. All these factors play an important role in the treatment of addiction patients; the appropriate treatment may vary from patient to patient. Treatment Setup While visiting the treatment facility, the setup was somewhat uncomfortable, but that's…half of the paper…and. The one thing that is still hard for me to understand is the idea that addiction is the heart of the problem and mental health comes second. During the Lakeside Milam tour, Mary explained that they treat the addiction first because they believe that the mental health issues will dissolve along with the addiction and if there are still mental health issues, then they will be treated later. As a mental health counselor, I understand that it is important for a client to not be under the influence during counseling, but I don't necessarily think that substance abuse counseling is more important than mental health counseling and vice versa. I think a lot of times they go hand in hand. Works Cited Fisher, G.L., & Harrison, T.C. (2009). Substance abuse: Information for school counselors, social workers, therapists, and counselors (5th ed.). Boston: Pearson-Allyn and Bacon.