Tragic and Costly: DUI/DWI

January 27, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

Public perceptions of how we should and shouldn’t treat offenders often result in less than optimal solutions both for the addict/alcoholic and for the victims and the larger society that must pay.

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Gaining Compliance

January 15, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

With ‘coerced’ clients, it’s easy to fall into a little game with the client striving to appear in compliance while covertly doing whatever he wants.

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Setting Boundaries: Understanding Your Client’s Agenda

January 14, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

An agenda refers to the client’s underlying plan or program. Not just what he hopes to accomplish, but the things he’s determined not to do.

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Setting Boundaries: The Initial Meeting

January 13, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

For some clients, particularly those with problems with rules and authority, their experience with boundaries is probably as important as anything that happens in counseling.

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Why Addicted People Manipulate

January 12, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

Takes a while to become really good at it, but most do. Addicts are not always great manipulators — that would be somebody so skilled you never realized you were being manipulated — but they’re bold, persistent, and creative when it comes to getting what they want

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The Professional as Target: Being Manipulated

January 11, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

As a professional, you have an agenda to fulfill. So too does the addict. His agenda is very different, but he’s even more committed to it.

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Establishing Credibility

January 9, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

For some reason, the clients paid little attention to his advice. Most of the time, they treated him like a visitor from Mars.

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Counseling Skills Toolkit

January 8, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

Maybe you’ll find an idea or two that you can put to use doing what you do best: Getting the suffering alcoholic or drug addict safely through that doorway to lifetime recovery.

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Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders: Step Ten

January 7, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

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Many of us have deliberately set the bar too high to encourage ourselves to jump. Obviously, we don’t always reach it.

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Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders: Steps 8 & 9

January 6, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

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The point is to foresee predictable traps and make changes to reduce your vulnerability to slips – defined as an unplanned use of drugs or alcohol that results from a weakness or flaw in your program of recovery.

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