Tips for Treatment Programs
Practical tips for excellent treatment & recovery programs
Everything from building safety to marketing to compliance to hospitality services to program development. Running a treatment or recovery program is a multi-tasking challenge for anyone. This blog features common-sense ‘protips’ based on more than 30 years of planning, starting, rescuing, and improving all kinds of addiction-related programs.
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Surviving Program Surveys
The most common error is to assume your program is running pretty well and will therefore get a good result on the survey.
Topics: administration, outcomes
Building an Ethical Culture
“If my intentions are good,” they think to themselves, “how can my actions be unprofessional?”
Topics: administration, ethics, supervision
Why Do We Keep Losing Bids?
We’re competitive on price and have all the required services, but for some reason the award goes elsewhere.
Topics: financial strategies, marketing, needs assessment, program development, systems
Winning Public Substance Abuse Services Contracts
Put yourself in the reader’s place. Most big awards come after review committees of five to ten folks have sorted through a pile of proposals using a rather elaborate ratings tool.
Topics: administration, financial strategies, marketing, program development
Inpatient Management: Dealing with the Tempests in the Teapot
I like to say that most of the conflicts are a tempest in a teapot — the problem being that you are in the teapot along with the tempest.
Topics: addicted offenders, clinical management, inpatient treatment
Helping Staff Manage Boundaries
Countertransference issues can be a genuine hazard in our field. If allowed to continue, it can lead to some pretty spectacular incidents.
Topics: boundaries, clinical management, counseling skills, professional skills, supervision
My Counselors are Being Manipulated!
Counselors and therapists are — and I’m generalizing shamelessly here, so forgive me — warm, empathetic, even sympathetic by nature.
Topics: boundaries, clinical management, counseling skills, resistance manipulation ambivalence
Lowering “First Week” ASA Rates
Crisis motivates addicts to seek treatment. But the addict’s motivation to remain in treatment decreases as he feels better.
Topics: administration, ASA Rate, client census, client engagement and motivation, clinical management
Adding Intervention Services
Families are always complaining about the lack of good, affordable intervention assistance out there (depending on where you live, of course)
Topics: intervention, marketing, program development
Reducing Outpatient No-Shows
No patient can benefit from a session he or she didn’t attend (at least, we hope not.)
Topics: client census, clinical management, outpatient treatment
