The following experiential exercises for helping groups, both inpatient and outpatient, to process issues of trauma and grief are taken from both The Living Stage and RTR Relationship Trauma Repair by Tian Dayton, both available ...
Who doesn’t self-medicate, at least a little? Sinking into a plate of pasta and a glass of wine or chowing down on French fries after a stressful day really does work to smooth out the ...
These three genius steps may contain the germ of what indeed separates the really competent (dare we say genius) addiction counselor from the rest of the pack.
I want to believe ol’ Tommy crusaded against this kind of “reasoning” (close mindedness) through out his entire career.
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Do not confuse denial and overconfidence. Distinguish the difference and better treat your client base.
There remains one little fly in the soup for mere theorizing. Do the theories represent true progress in our field?
Time And Recovery One of the things that people in recovery from an addiction often have is a mental timetable of when things have gone wrong. They can often trace back to the first times ...
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