“Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse has been a life-altering influence for so many people, including me. I first met Sharon in my mother’s living room, thirty-six years ago, when she was doing a weekend of work with my ...
This is the first installment in a two-column series focusing on the impact of optimism on wellness and recovery. The current column deals with the impact of optimism on our physical health; the second column ...
Dear Dr. Toni: I have been a recovering heroin addict for five years and have been in therapy for the past year. It has really helped me to work through my pattern of wanting ...
This edition of Counselor magazine has a focus on adolescents and young adults. With that in mind, what do we know about these two populations? How are they alike and how are they different from ...
We met or talked via phone or email with parents from all walks of life who have adolescent or adult children with a substance use disorder (SUD), many who have a co-occurring psychiatric disorder (COD). ...
This is the first column that will focus on issues related to group leaders and group treatments since this modality is often the main form of treatment in programs for substance use (SUD) or co-occurring ...
This is the third and final installment in a series addressing the high cost of anger. Previous columns dealt with the distinction between appropriate and inappropriate anger expression and the devastating impact of the latter ...
Dear Dr. Toni: I have been a stock broker for twenty years. I am a forty-eight-year-old man who is married with one son. I read your columns and have always wondered about the type ...
By any chance do you remember the New Year’s resolutions you made about a month go? I had to bring those up didn’t I? How are you doing with them? It seems each year we ...
I use the term “pharmacotherapy” to describe the use of medications to assist people with substance use disorders to achieve remission—that is, no longer meeting the diagnostic criteria for an active addiction—or even better, to ...
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