Programs

Counselors and therapists are — and I’m generalizing shamelessly here, so forgive me — warm, empathetic, even sympathetic by nature.

Crisis motivates addicts to seek treatment. But the addict’s motivation to remain in treatment decreases as he feels better.

Families are always complaining about the lack of good, affordable intervention assistance out there (depending on where you live, of course)

It’s not so much that the client is unable to grasp the info as he or she is easily discouraged based on a fund of previous negative experiences in school.

No patient can benefit from a session he or she didn’t attend (at least, we hope not.)

You can be firm and still leave room for someone in authority to make an exception.

With good controls, I’d say it’s a legit therapeutic option.

It’s difficult to squeeze a lot of motivational work into the course of outpatient counseling. Clinicians are anxious to get to the behavior change part.

Use examples. It’s hard for someone with alcoholism to grasp the idea that he or she can’t go back to drinking at some future point – after a year of abstinence, for instance. But the old saw that a pickle can’t go back to being a cucumber – that people seem to understand.

Some will be the sort of folks who insist on using the latest and greatest. Others will represent large purchasers, searching for something that might work on patients who haven’t responded to other methods.