Words Matter: Alcohol and Drugs
I’ve always been a little uncomfortable when I hear the phrase “alcohol and drugs”. I’ve been around treatment long enough to know that alcohol is […]
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Counselor, heal thyself: Relationships and beyond
With ongoing changes to the healthcare system, counseling is likely to continue a shift toward evidence based, manualized approaches. However, good counseling […]
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Rethinking Addiction and the Affordable Care Act
I heard some pretty interesting statistics last week about healthcare costs in the United States. One of the most interesting was that […]
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Counselor, heal thyself: Hierarchy of needs
[GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Research has shown the therapeutic relationship may be one of the most important factors in […]
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Counselor, heal thyself: How to become an effective counselor
What does it take to be an effective counselor? With all the talk about evidence based practice and manualized treatments, one would […]
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Cognitive Processing Therapy
Working in the substance abuse field, one comes to understand that trauma is a common factor for many clients. It doesn’t always […]
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The Law of Attraction and The War on Drugs
Without delving too far into the metaphysical abyss, let’s apply the concepts of “The Law of Attraction” to the efforts against substance […]
