“I Don’t Want to Do Life Today”: Helping Adolescents Save Face in Treatment and Recovery
Is life so difficult for some adolescents in America that they don’t want to get out of bed each day? While presenting…
The Current Issue
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2015 Nov-Dec
6 Features
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6 Articles
The Features
Counseling African American with Substance Use Disorders
In 1978 First Lady Betty Ford declared before a national TV audience, “My name is Betty Ford. I am an alcoholic.” That…
The Benefits of Harm Reduction in Adolescents
Substance use and abuse remains one of the major public health problems amongst American youth. A report from the Substance Abuse and…
Trauma Model Therapy: A Treatment Approach for Traumatized Adolescents
Trauma model therapy (TMT) is a treatment model that I developed over a period of years (Ross, 2007; Ross & Halpern, 2009).…
The Impaired Professional: An Overview
Substance abuse in all its forms represents a major public health problem for our country. Economically, costs are well above those for…
Utilizing an Abstinence-Based Model for Eating Disorders
Abstinence‐based treatment, derived from the Minnesota model of addiction treatment, is based on the concept that addiction is a disease, and the…
