Blogs
We have four blogs on our site, each with its own focus:
How to Talk so Someone With Addiction Will Listen (Families) is a question-and-answer format blog that provides help for families struggling with an addiction problem.
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How to Talk so Someone With Addiction Will Listen (Clinicians) is a question-and answer format blog serving as a discussion forum for treatment clinicians & recovery pros.
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Tips for Treatment Programs is a question-and-answer format blog that gives practical tips for people who want to run excellent treatment & recovery programs.
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Thinking About Addiction is a more traditional “sharing our thoughts” blog that responds to news, information, and whatever’s happening for us right now. It’s too long a title to call it “Thinking About Addiction, Treatment, and Recovery” but that’s a better description.
Here’s a feed of all the posts to all of our blogs:
Do Incentives Work?
Some clients need more frequent reinforcement than others – those with poor impulse control, for instance, or who struggle with cravings, or are less motivated for other reasons.
Topics: clinical management, groups, therapeutic models, therapies and tools
The Bullying Game
Pretty soon we’re having a big argument which ends with me feeling miserable and him gone to the pub.
Topics: communication, enabling and provoking, family dysfunction, getting help, toxic relationships
Why Didn’t Our Intervention Work?
The family had good representation from important people in the alcoholic’s life, and there was professional help, but that’s not leverage.
Topics: getting help, intervention, leverage, negotiation
Corporate Expectations
What am I supposed to do with all this information? It doesn’t bring in more patients or help me get additional staff to treat the patients I already have.
Topics: administration, financial strategies
Adding Services for Co-Occurring Disorders
The key question involves which part of the COD population you’re going to serve. It’s not really a homogeneous group.
Topics: clinical management, co-occurring disorders, depression, mental illness, personality disorders, program development, treatment planning
Are Recovering Counselors Better?
I recall one professor airily informing his class that recovering counselors had an ‘agenda’.
Topics: clinical management, counseling, counseling skills, establishing credibility
Is it Treatment Failure or Relapse?
“We paid almost $50,000 for that program and it seems like a complete waste. We feel so helpless. What do we do?”
Topics: intervention, outcomes, relapse
Making Phone Contacts More Meaningful (Marketing)
In most cases, our only pre-admission contact with prospective patients and families is by telephone.
Topics: clinical management, customer service, marketing, referral
Why Don’t Physicians Refer People for Treatment?
A patient said he’d visited a local family clinic three times in the past year for drinking-related problems and the physician never once mentioned that he needed treatment.
Topics: assessment, clinical management, diagnosis, health care, marketing, physicians, recognizing addiction, signs and symptoms
Is There a Cure?
When I think of a ‘cure’ for alcoholism, I mean the ability to drink without further problems.
Topics: alcoholism, bad information, disease
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