Programs

Psychologists suspect that emotional traits cannot be taught in the workplace; employers must screen and select for them via the hiring process.

The key to treatment success is an integrated approach: One treatment team treats both illnesses using an integrated treatment plan.

The behavior of antisocial persons is a challenge to traditional substance abuse counseling. Offender populations are packed with antisocial clients. It helps to address these behaviors directly, beginning with the treatment plan.

A patient who leaves ASA can’t be considered a treatment success, and a high ASA rate is sure to damage a program’s reputation. Analysis and preventive action can lower your rate of ASA discharges. Here are a few simple suggestions.

We’re competitive on price and have all the required services, but for some reason the award goes elsewhere.

Our longstanding practice of branding anyone who drank again a ‘failure’ kept us from recognizing very real success right under our noses.

Seeking evidence, and applying practices based on evidence to your clinical interventions, can help making decisions that increase the chances of a desired outcome

Put yourself in the reader’s place. Most big awards come after review committees of five to ten folks have sorted through a pile of proposals using a rather elaborate ratings tool.

I like to say that most of the conflicts are a tempest in a teapot — the problem being that you are in the teapot along with the tempest.

Countertransference issues can be a genuine hazard in our field. If allowed to continue, it can lead to some pretty spectacular incidents.