In writing this article, it is important to understand that once trained in eye movement and desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) and brainspotting, the applications can be limitless. I have had limited trainings in both areas and ...

Clinicians working in adolescent substance use treatment programs know that youth they see frequently have co-occurring mental health problems that need to be addressed during treatment. Studies report that between 55 percent and 88 percent ...

The “helper” therapy principle proposed in 1965 by sociologist Frank Reissman suggests that those providing help are as likely, if not more likely, to benefit from the helping relationship as those receiving help (Reissman, 1965). ...

One of the major clinical innovations in the modern treatment of addiction is the community reinforcement approach and family training (CRAFT) intervention developed by Robert J. Meyers, PhD. CRAFT is an evidence-based, nonconfrontational approach that ...

The recent rise in opiate addiction within the Islamic Republic of Iran has triggered a wide variety or cultural and professional responses (Mokri, 2002; Razzaghi, Rahimi, Hosseni, Madani, & Chaterjee, 1999; Shariatirad & Maarefvand, 2013). ...

In the mid-1990s my teenage daughter was fluent in the new social language of stress. She was overwhelmed, pressured, and felt that life was too fast. There was too much to accomplish and not enough ...

There is a significant relationship between the experience of trauma and subsequent substance abuse (Kilpatrick et al., 2003; Rosenberg, 2011). For many individuals, drugs and alcohol are used to self-medicate the emotional and psychological reactions ...