Sundown Ranch, Inc. | Clinical Leadership

	Medical Director Sundown Ranch is very fortunate to be associated with Dr. Cheryé Callegan. Dr. Callegan has worked in the field of addiction medicine for approximately twenty years. She is currently the Medical Director and a treating psychiatrist at Sundown Ranch. Prior to coming to Sundown Ranch she served as the Medical Director of Substance Abuse Services at Both Green Oaks Hospital and Timberlawn Psychiatric Hospital. She is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in both Psychiatry and Addiction. Dr. Callegan is also certified through the American Society of Addiction Medicine in addiction as well as through the American Society of Adolescent Medicine. In 2006 and just recently in 2009 Dr. Callegan was named America's Top Psychiatrist by the Consumer Research Community of America.

	Program Psychologist Robert Adelman received his Doctorate in Psychology from Texas A&M-Commerce in 1998. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, Society for Psychotherapy Research, and Constructivist Psychology Network. He has served as a Consulting Psychologist with Sundown Ranch for twenty years, and has maintained a private practice in East Texas for over twenty years. In 2001, he chaired a committee at the facility devoted to improving the anger management of adolescents during the course of substance abuse treatment. In 2004, the facility was awarded the Ernest A. Codman Award by the JCAHO, which cited the project as demonstrating excellence in the use of performance improvement methods. Dr. Adelman has specialized in adapting Albert Ellis' Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy to helping adolescent substance abusers. He has four publications on the subject and annually presents his work at a number of professional conferences across the country. Dr. Adelman facilitates the Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Group at Sundown Ranch. In this group, clients learn to identify their irrational thought processes, challenge these unhealthy thoughts, and form more realistic, goal-affirming beliefs. Through the methods of REBT, clients achieve greater self-responsibility and reduced emotional dysfunction, as well as begin to develop healthy alternatives to their addictive behaviors.

Sundown Ranch, Inc. is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and licensed by the Texas Department of State Health Services.