Women And Porn Addictions: The New Relationship Crisis?
In the last 20 years or more a lot of information has come to the surface about the somewhat hidden issue of…
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The Trauma Time Line: Working with Context and Narrative
The following experiential exercises for helping groups, both inpatient and outpatient, to process issues of trauma and grief are taken from both…
Hidden Addictions: The Many Forms of Self-Medication
Who doesn’t self-medicate, at least a little? Sinking into a plate of pasta and a glass of wine or chowing down on…
Texting Addiction: R U JOKG?
Texting has become a way of life for most people from adults through to the young teens that own a cell phone.…
Want to be a Genius?
These three genius steps may contain the germ of what indeed separates the really competent (dare we say genius) addiction counselor from…
A Nod to Tommy Szasz
I want to believe ol’ Tommy crusaded against this kind of “reasoning” (close mindedness) through out his entire career.
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Denial and Overconfidence
Do not confuse denial and overconfidence. Distinguish the difference and better treat your client base.
Mere Theorizing Doesn’t Cut It
There remains one little fly in the soup for mere theorizing. Do the theories represent true progress in our field?
Time and Recovery
Time And Recovery One of the things that people in recovery from an addiction often have is a mental timetable of when…