Articles
The View Depends on Where You Stand
This isn’t a problem a physician can deal with comfortably in the context of a 12-15 minute office visit.
Topics: getting help, opioids, prescription medications, recognizing addiction, research
A Place for Placebo?
Might be that clinicians can teach patients to activate their own body’s placebo response, in order to feel better.
Topics: opioids, research, therapies and tools
Affordable
As a rule, the more services that are provided through the program itself, rather than by referral out, the better the quality of case management, and the higher the rate of retention in treatment.
Topics: needs assessment, policy, program development
Three Challenges
Like a stroke patient who suddenly finds himself needing to relearn basic skills that were once automatic, it may require a level of personal commitment unseen for many years.
Topics: assessment, client engagement and motivation, counseling skills, outpatient treatment, relapse
Opening the Pipeline: ADHD
The firm’s managers conclude that sales would be a whole lot better if the disorder were better publicized and more people were diagnosed with it.
Topics: epidemiology, prescription medications
What is Trauma?
The practitioner’s job is to tease apart the clinical picture to identify likely contributors to focus on in treatment.
Topics: co-occurring disorders, counseling skills, trauma
“…and practice these principles in all my affairs.”
It should have been obvious all along that this effort was being Divinely Orchestrated. I just needed to step up and let the process work.
Topics: spirituality, tools for recovery