Therapeutic Techniques

January 16, 2012: PREVENTION MUST BE PUT INTO CONTEXT
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A common definition of prevention is “educating youth to abstain” – but this is doubly erroneous, explains Peter Stoker. First, all age groups can benefit. Second, education is only part of a process which also encompasses knowledge, attitudes and behaviour....

May 27, 2011: RESIDENTIAL REHAB BRIEFING
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by THE CONCORDAT OF PROVIDERS OF FULL RECOVERY May 2011 CONTENTS / AGENDA 1 Introduction: What residential rehabs offer 2 Evidence base for outcomes 3 Costs: cost of rehab, cost of patients prior to/ not going to rehab, added value...

May 27, 2011: RESIDENTIAL REHAB BRIEFING: Introduction
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by THE CONCORDAT OF PROVIDERS OF FULL RECOVERY Click Residential Rehab Briefing for Contents list of all 6 sections. Or Download Residential Rehab Core Briefing May 2011 1. INTRODUCTION: WHAT REHABS OFFER. Residential rehab’ (rehabilitation) – offering addicts a 4-52...

May 27, 2011: RESIDENTIAL REHAB BRIEFING: Evidence base
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by THE CONCORDAT OF PROVIDERS OF FULL RECOVERY Click Residential Rehab Briefing for Contents list of all 6 sections. Or Download Residential Rehab Core Briefing May 2011 2. EVIDENCE BASE. There is a paucity of research about residential rehab in...

May 27, 2011: RESIDENTIAL REHAB BRIEFING: Costs
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by THE CONCORDAT OF PROVIDERS OF FULL RECOVERY Click Residential Rehab Briefing for Contents list of all 6 sections. Or Download Residential Rehab Core Briefing May 2011 and Download Cross Departmental Financial Benefits Full-Recovery 3. COSTS Cost of rehab, cost...

May 27, 2011: RESIDENTIAL REHAB BRIEFING: Myths vs facts
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by THE CONCORDAT OF PROVIDERS OF FULL RECOVERY Click Residential Rehab Briefing for Contents list of all 6 sections. Or Download Residential Rehab Core Briefing May 2011 4. POPULAR MYTHS ABOUT REHABS VS FACTS “Residential rehab doesn’t work”; “There’s no...

May 27, 2011: RESIDENTIAL REHAB BRIEFING: Barriers to access
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by THE CONCORDAT OF PROVIDERS OF FULL RECOVERY Click Residential Rehab Briefing for Contents list of all 6 sections. Or Download Residential Rehab Core Briefing May 2011 5. BARRIERS TO ACCESSING RESIDENTIAL REHAB “It is ideological/extremist to recommend rehab/abstinence for...

May 11, 2011: BIONIC BRAINS: WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO REBUILD YOU
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Therapist Sarah Graham offered up her brain for a battery of tests – and was shocked to find that her memory systems were damaged not so much by years of using cocaine, ecstasy, cannabis and LSD but by her teenage...

March 4, 2011: LOTS OF HAPPY ENDINGS
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Why do people not listen to stories of success when it comes to addiction, ask Dr David Best, Safeena Ghufran, Rajashree Ray and Ed Day. "Success can be measured. Our duty as researchers is to provide a voice for it."...

March 4, 2011: RESEARCH SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISORDERED EATING
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High-fashion models are an unhealthy 23% thinner than the average woman – while research shows girls as young as five on diets to achieve the same image. On top of this, people with eating disorders are at higher risk for...

January 24, 2011: "WHAT ARE YOUR SUCCESS RATES?"
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THE BROADWAY INVENTORY HAS ANSWERS Treatment organisations are often asked about their success rates – but what is success? Peter Smith and Dr Jennifer Parker trialled a tool which measures the development of characteristics playing a significant role in the...

January 8, 2011: STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES FOR SUBSTANCE-USE DISORDER PATIENTS
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As the government searches for models of incentivising specific outcomes in addiction treatment. Deirdre Boyd picks the brains of Keith Humphreys and Tom McLellan on research to inform policy, as well as advice on “payment by results”. Print-friendly version: Download...

October 30, 2010: SPEED YOUR FAMILY INTO RECOVERY
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Ethical, accredited interventionists can accelerate addicts into treatment –maverick ones can harm the whole family. So leading players have signed up to become board-registered interventionists with an agreed Code of Ethics. Victoria Sternhold reports on the birth of AIS International....

September 12, 2010: RECOVERY: HELPS, HINDRANCES AND THE WAY AHEAD
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Alexandre Laudet continues her empirical look at recovery, focusing on building ‘recovery capital’, tearing down barriers – and implications for treatment and policy. Print-friendly version: Download AT126 Road to recovery Related article on finding recovery. Treatment services tend to be...

September 12, 2010: THE ROAD TO RECOVERY: WHERE ARE WE GOING AND HOW DO WE GET THERE?
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What is recovery? Alexandre Laudet gives the best summary we found, identifying research and offering empirically-driven conclusions and thus future directions for policy, service development and research – all could be within our reach. Print-friendly version: Download AT126 Road to...

August 23, 2010: FROM HOPELESSNESS TO ACTION: MOVING ADDICTS INTO RECOVERY
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NB: DEADLINE TO GIVE YOUR VIEWS TO HOME OFFICE DRUGS CONSULTATION IS 30 SEPTEMBER - THE EASY WAY IS TO CUT-AND-PASTE OUR RESPONSE HERE, ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND EMAIL BACKGROUND... We need ‘saltation’ – a successful leap to the major...

August 1, 2010: STAGES OF CHANGE
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A BLUEPRINT TO BUILD STRONG FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE Professor Carlo DiClemente’s Stages of Change model is feted worldwide for enhancing the understanding and skills which make a substance-abuse treatment provider effective. It helps clinicians develop thoughtful, individually tailored, scientifically grounded...

July 30, 2010: NUTRITION: REPAIR YOUR BODY IN RECOVERY
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This article from Addiction Today journal will be posted on this webpage by the end of July 2010.

June 29, 2010: PATIENT PLACEMENT CRITERIA:
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SELECTING APPROPRIATE TREATMENT About 50 million lives are in the hands of companies across the globe which state that they use ASAM ‘patient placement criteria’ to authorise addiction treatment. What are these criteria? And how can they help give happier...

June 11, 2010: "ADDICTIONS AND RECOVERY"
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SELF HELP FOR ADDICTS, FAMILIES, FRIENDS The Addiction Recovery Foundation has updated and republished this book by its CEO Deirdre Boyd, and kept it at a low price of $9.99, to help as many people as possible to recover from...

April 29, 2010: UKESAD 2010: best-practice therapies
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The 60 worldclass presenters for over 40 presentations at the 7th UK/European Symposium on Addictive Disorders will exchange international expertise to help your clients recover from addiction/dependency. Topics include: Increase family access to treatment Working through the continuum of care...

April 9, 2010: FACE IT & FIX IT
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Article by Ken Seely to follow by end-April.

April 9, 2010: HOW TO CHANGE SOMEONE YOU LOVE
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Article by Brad Lamm to be published end-April 2010.

April 7, 2010: INTEGRATED, HOLISTIC APPROACH TO ADDICTIVE DISORDERS
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by Dr Mark Atkinson To follow April 2010

January 5, 2010: ACCOUNTABILITY CAN BREAK THE CYCLE OF CRIME – AND MORE
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Stephen Valle’s accountability model yields dividends in clinical- and cost-effectiveness. It can cut re-offending rates by an extra 10-40%, and has been applied to domestic violence programmes, courts, community and in-prison therapeutic communities. He gives us the inside story. Print-friendly...

October 28, 2009: STRUCTURED INTERVENTIONS
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...ALL YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW Good structured interventions have a 92% success in getting addicts into treatment – and of helping family members even when this does not ensue. Jeff Van Vonderen explains in detail. “Intervention” has caught the...

July 20, 2009: WATER OFF A DUCK'S BACK, pt 2
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HELP CLIENTS TO DEAL WITH VERBAL PROVOCATION Having identified the common ‘crimes’ of provocation and potential relapse triggers, how can you help your clients to deal with them? Jon Lavelle offers cunning linguistics. Print-friendly version: Download Water off a duck's...

July 20, 2009: WATER OFF A DUCK'S BACK
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HELP CLIENTS TO DEAL WITH AWKWARD PEOPLE – AND SMILE Frustrating situations and awkward, exasperating or manipulative people can trigger relapse. So Jon Lavelle offers helpful hints and tips to sail safely through some of life’s storms. Print-friendly version: Download...

July 20, 2009: GRIEVING CAN GIVE YOU LIFE!
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If we do not face up to our losses and grief, we can turn to alcohol and drugs as a mistaken way out. To aid recovery, we give a 10-point system for healing from grief, created by Fr Jack McGinnis....

July 20, 2009: GRIEF PAVES WAY TO FREEDOM
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We must face up to our grief in order to move forward and give up our addictions. Father Jack McGinnis illustrates the importance of grieving, starting with his own intense experience of his alcoholic father’s death. This article was published...