This article argues that the most important clinical factor in addiction treatment is accuracy. Without it, you risk making erroneous clinical evaluations, decisions, and treatment selections, one after another. The cornerstone of this argument rests ...
Residential treatment has typically been the recommended intervention for youth presenting with the most severe co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders. Residential treatment is commonly indicated for such youth who have not responded to ...
Treatment for adolescent substance use disorders (SUDs) is effective, but positive outcomes can be compromised by premature dropout and relapse. Continuing care provided by treatment programs has been well-documented by research to improve outcomes. However, ...
As counselors, we are in a unique position to serve as kindness role models for the adolescents and families we work with—there are opportunities to do so every day. We define kindness as paying attention, ...
Much has been discovered about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the past forty years, but there exists some gaps in applying this knowledge to clinical practice. Misdiagnosis is a case in point. For example, in ...
As a clinician, working with young adults (ages eighteen to twenty-nine) can pose many challenges. Overall, young adults exhibit the highest rates of cannabis use (19 percent), alcohol use (59.6 percent), binge drinking (37.9 percent), ...
The healing process from the trauma of addiction is not just related to past explanations of our trauma, but also the direct experience of our emotional thoughts and feelings, and the remnants of those emotions ...
My introduction to alternative therapies came when I graduated from medical school in 1977 with high grades and a disappointed outlook on medicine. I decided to drop out and live on the road in a ...
Almost everyone who has been touched by addiction has a story about a turning point or revelation of new awareness. For those of us who are in recovery as well as being in the helping ...
Alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are common and problematic in the United States, representing one of the leading causes of preventable death (Mokdad, Marks, Stroup, & Gerberding, 2004). Despite the development of effective treatments for short-term ...
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