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Posted on April 26, 2013 at 6:56 pm by Lakeside

More 12-Step meetings predict abstinence
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More 12-Step meetings
predict abstinence A
NATURALISTIC
COMPARISON OF
OUTCOMES AT SOCIAL
AND CLINICAL MODEL
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
TREATMENT PROGRAMS.
Abstract: Since the 1970s,
much of the public
treatment system in
California has been based
on a social model
orientation to recovery for
alcoholics, but there has
been minimal research on
program outcomes. This
article reports on follow-up
interviews conducted with
a representative sample of
722 people who had
entered treatment about a
year earlier in public and
private programs, including
publicly-funded social
model detoxification and
residential programs, and
clinical model programs in
hospitals and HMO clinics.
Social model clients came to
treatment with more
severe legal and
employment problems,
whereas those seeking
treatment

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Posted on April 19, 2013 at 5:42 pm by Lakeside

AA and the disease concept of alcoholism
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AA and the disease
concept of alcoholism
Although the idea of
“illness” helped many early
and later members of
Alcoholics Anonymous
(A.A.) to understand their
alcoholism, Alcoholics
Anonymous neither
originated nor promulgated
the disease concept of
alcoholism. The main
contribution of A.A. in this
area was the broadening
of the extant concept to
one of ” threefold” malady
[Spiritual, mental and
physical], with an emphasis
on “the spiritual.”
Examining the political and
medical contexts of the
time as well as A.A.
literature shed light on the
culture’;s changing
understanding of
alcoholism in the second
half of the twentieth
century. Given the issues
and prejudices involved, it
is

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Posted on April 17, 2013 at 5:32 pm by Lakeside

Why the HP Actually Works
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Future of God in recovery from drug addiction The purpose of the present paper was to explore the theory, concept and experience of God in relation to recovery from drug addiction from a scientific perspective. Examination of a diverse literature was undertaken, including five key threads: the universality of the experience of God; the induction …∞

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Posted on April 13, 2013 at 4:39 pm by

TSF and other models
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CONTRAST TO OTHER COUNSELING APPROACHES Most Similar Counseling Approaches TSF has its roots in the Minnesota Model first described by Daniel J. Anderson and as implemented in most AA-oriented treatment programs (e.g.,the Hazelden Foundation, the Betty Ford Foundation, the Sierra Tuscan Center, and others). These models assume addiction can be arrested but not cured, ascribe …∞

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Posted on March 22, 2013 at 12:48 pm by Lakeside

Twelve Step Facilitation (TSF) Reduces Substance Abuse
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Changes in self-efficacy and Twelve Step Affiliation were associated with improvement in substance use outcomes at the end of treatment.

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Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:33 pm by Lakeside

Mindfulness Can Help Recovery
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  Mindfulness as a concept and a process The use of mindfulness meditation as a therapeutic intervention has been strongly promoted in the last few years. To date there has been limited opportunity for open discussion and sharing of knowledge in relation to theory, practice or outcomes. The purpose of this paper was to provide …∞

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Posted on March 9, 2013 at 10:30 am by Lakeside

Brief Intervention
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Brief Intervention Is Insufficient for Medical Inpatients With Unhealthy Drinking Data show that brief intervention reduces consumption and consequences among outpatients with unhealthy, but not dependent, alcohol use. To assess whether brief interventions work among medical inpatients with unhealthy drinking,* researchers randomized 341 of such patients to a 30-minute session of motivational counseling in the …∞

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Posted on February 28, 2013 at 8:32 am by Lakeside

Perceived social support in AA
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Dimensions of social interaction among sober female participants in Alcoholics Anonymous. The peer-led, voluntary fellowship, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), remains the predominant model for treatment within the field of substance abuse treatment and attainment of sobriety. The social support network of AA has been documented as a powerful factor in the achievement of sobriety. However, for …∞

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Posted on February 21, 2013 at 7:08 am by Lakeside

TSF Works
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Professional Interventions
That Facilitate 12-Step
Self-Help Group
Involvement Facilitating
patients’; involvement with
12-step self-help
organizations, such as
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
and Narcotics Anonymous
(NA), is often a goal of
substance abuse
treatment. Twelve-step-
facilitation (TSF)
interventions have been
found to be more effective
than comparison
treatments in increasing
patients’; 12-step group
involvement and in
promoting abstinence.
Recent Evaluations of TSF
Interventions One large
study, known as Project
MATCH, compared a TSF
intervention with cognitive-
behavioral (CB) therapy
and motivational
enhancement therapy
(MET) among 1,726
patients (76 percent male)
diagnosed with either
alcohol abuse or
dependence, including 774
inpatients who were
beginning outpatient
aftercare and 952 patients
receiving outpatient care
as their primary treatment

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Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:01 am by Lakeside

Substance Abuse and Mental Disorders
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The Co-Occurring Center for Excellence. Addressing mental disorders and alcoholism, addiction co-occurring. The Co-Occurring Center for Excellence (COCE) was created by SAMHSA in 2003 to provide information and a range of services to mental health and substance abuse administrators and policymakers at state and local levels, their counterparts in tribal and Native populations, clinical providers, …∞

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