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The Readiness is All
When addicts and alcoholics are unprepared for the reality of sobriety, it’s all too easy to run back to the familiar hell of addiction.
Topics: 12Step, maintaining sobriety, Recovery Without God
Your Greatest Fear
They don’t realize how effectively their actions are undermining their own goal: getting the addict into treatment.
Topics: co dependency, enabling and provoking, intervention
Why Gender-Specific Rehab?
One benefit of gender-specific rehab is the reasons for initial substance-seeking can be appropriately addressed by the treatment team and can be processed with like-minded peers.
Topics: getting help
Retention
Even in remission, the client is still an addict. The challenge is to sustain the remission, going forward.
Topics: client census, client engagement and motivation, clinical management, outcomes
Taking the Fifth
It can be intimidating to look over the inventory, and think about sharing these shame-laden items with another real live person.
Topics: 12Step, Recovery Without God, stigma
EBP Shopping
No matter what model you choose, you’re going to want to track outcomes to see how it’s working with your client census.
Topics: outcomes, program development, treatment models
Social Networking and Recovery Services
Social networking speech is protected, in the United States at least, by the same Constitution that protects other forms of speech.
Topics: administration, communication, supervision
Vaillant and the Long Term View of Relapse
He’s able to describe complex phenomena in terms that, with a little work at least, we can understand.
Addiction Treatment: The Double Standard
Addiction has been described as a chronic problem that we’ve attempted to treat as an acute illness –a big reason for the revolving door of relapse.
Topics: abstinence, MAT, program development, therapeutic models