Addiction Clinicians
Risky Decision Case Study: Quarterback Derby
To a seasoned counselor, there’s another way to view it. For one thing, these aren’t isolated incidents.
Topics: assessment, celebrity, decision making, risk factors
Groups That Don’t Work pt 2
We’ve never seen a group that works, right from its inception. Progress toward work usually involves struggle through one or more of these modes.
Topics: clinician skills, groups, treatment models
Counseling Clients With Complex Disorders
…progress is the measuring stick. You want your patient to know the joy of a structured, purposeful life.
Topics: co-occurring disorders, counseling skills
Groups That Don’t Work pt 1
When a group adopts one of these operating modes permanently, as a primary form of interaction, they end up actively resisting any responsibility for achieving individual and group goals.
Topics: clinician skills, groups, treatment models
Predicting Success in Groups
We don’t need to ‘cure’ social anxiety, only to increase the individual’s level of control over his or her emotions…
Topics: anxiety, counseling skills, groups, recovery support groups
Understanding Objections to 12 Step Groups
This is also an opportunity to work on an all-important issue in early recovery: personal boundaries.
Topics: 12Step, Alcoholics Anonymous, discharge planning, maintaining sobriety
Confirmation Bias and Counseling
Project Match has long been held up as demonstrating the efficacy of three very different approaches.
Topics: counseling skills, therapies and tools
Cross Addiction: Is it a Myth?
There are many concepts in clinical psychology that are not science-based, but are nonetheless still of use in therapy.
Topics: bad information, counseling, relapse