Posted by Lakeside on 17th March 2008
After just 4 months of operation my blogs have hit the 20,000 visitor mark. To me this is astounding. Thank you.
The statistics for September are;
Visitors - 20,002
Pages viewed - 49,968
Posts - 95
Comments - 90. Well, we can push this up next month.
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Posted by Lakeside on 2nd March 2008
Brief-TSF Description
Brief Twelve Step Facilitation (Brief-TSF) is a new synthesis of experience and research covering the last 65 years. Varied forms of TSF have been devised and utilised by a variety of helpers since Twelve Step Fellowships originated by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). These range from simple advice to ‘Go to AA’ through various forms of counseling, mandated attendance and coercion to long-term residential treatment.
Brief-TSF, unlike full TSF, is for use by generalist healthcare workers as an adjunctive intervention to their normal practice. It is brief in that Brief-TSF only requires one dedicated session.
Brief-TSF can be used as;
- a discrete structured assertive intervention,
- in an opportunistic supportive mode or,
- simply as a knowledge base for healthcare workers who wish to respect a clients/patients choice of recovery through a twelve step fellowship.
Brief-TSF is intended to be utilised in ‘mainstream’ healthcare as an earlier intervention to prevent harms such as family breakdown, legal sanctions, medical complications, anti-social behaviour, employment interruption & etc.
Brief-TSF consists of a brief and structured approach to facilitating early recovery from alcoholism. It is intended to be implemented on an individual basis and is based in behavioural, spiritual, and cognitive principles that form the core of 12 step fellowships such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). It is suitable for those who are alcohol dependent.
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Posted by Lakeside on 18th February 2008
Twelve Step Facilitation (TSF)
Twelve-Step Facilitation (TSF) consists of a structured, and manual-driven approach to facilitating early recovery from alcohol abuse/alcoholism and other drug abuse/addiction. It is intended to be implemented on an individual basis in 12 to 15 sessions and is based in behavioural, spiritual, and cognitive principles that form the core of 12-step fellowships such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA). It is suitable for problem drinkers and other drug users and for those who are alcohol or other drug dependent.
TSF seeks to facilitate two general goals in individuals with alcohol or other drug problems: acceptance (of the need for abstinence from alcohol or other drug use) and surrender, or the willingness to participate actively in 12-step fellowships as a means of sustaining sobriety. These goals are in turn broken down into a series of cognitive, emotional, relationship, behavioural, social, and spiritual objectives.
The theoretical rationale is based in the 12 steps and 12 traditions of AA and includes the need to accept that willpower alone is not sufficient to achieve sustained sobriety, that self-contredanses must be replaced by surrender to the group conscience, and that long-term recovery consists of a process of spiritual renewal. The primary mechanism action is active participation and a willingness to accept a higher power as the locus of change in one’s life.
The facilitator in the TSF treatment model is more truly a facilitator of change than an agent of change. The true agent of change (i.e., sustained sobriety) lies in active participation in 12-step fellowships like AA and NA along with the principles set forth in the 12 steps and 12 traditions that guide these fellowships.
Alcoholism and other drug addiction are considered illnesses that affect individuals both mentally and physically in such a way that they are unable to control their use of alcohol or other drugs. Viewed from this perspective, the concept of controlled use of alcohol or other drugs amounts to denial of the primary problem, that is, loss of control. Specific causative factors are of less relevance in recovery than is acceptance of both the loss of control and the need for abstinence and a willingness to follow the pathway laid out in the 12 Steps.
After Nowinski J. NIDA, 2000.
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