I believe that the development and three subsequent revisions of The ASAM Criteria (Mee-Lee et al., 2013), along with motivational interviewing (MI) and medication-assisted treatment (MAT), have made the greatest contributions to assessment and placement ...
Overwhelment occurs when we experience severe overload to the point where we feel mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually depleted. While the adage that “God never gives us more than we can handle” may hold true, ...
In this issue of Counselor, a forty-year veteran in addiction treatment sounds a sobering alarm. On page 22, Robert “Bob” Lynn, EdD, concludes that our field faces a crisis in credibility.An “independent researcher, professor, and ...
In the past five years, there has been a greater focus on patients who are readmitted to the hospital within thirty days. This is in part because Medicare is paying less for readmissions and in ...
Resilient qualities are not only what we are born with, but also the strengths that we build through encountering life’s challenges and developing the personal and interpersonal skills to meet them. The idea of growth ...
Dear Dr. Galardi,I’m a therapist at a residential treatment facility. What I’m writing you about is very difficult for me to talk about to anyone because it involves someone else with great visibility. I’ve been ...
The subject of self-care for counselors is one that receives plenty of attention in the literature, as well as during conversations in the classroom, staff rooms, supervision, and the dialogues inside our heads. It has ...
Compassion is the “sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it” (Merriam-Webster, 2017). Dictionary.com states that compassion is “a feeling of distress and pity for the suffering or misfortune of another, ...
How does one learn to live a life of emotional, mental, and physical self-care, when days of not caring have turned into years or even decades?
From time to time the US Surgeon General issues reports that synthesize health research and public policy in a way intended to reach the public and generate support for needed improvements. Having been involved in ...
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