My clinical graduate internship was in a residential addiction treatment program from 1988-1989.
And I started my first job as an addiction counselor in 1989.
- What clinical methods were addiction counselors using back then?
- And which, if any, of those methods are worth preserving now?
A monograph I’ve titled “Classic Practices in Addiction Counseling”, is set to come out Thursday this week. It attempts to answer those questions by reviewing some of what was taught to me back in the late 1980s by addiction counselors that came before.
The main body of the work covers 6 classic practices. Each of those sections are only a couple of pages long and are written in a conversational style.
The monograph concludes with an integration of all 6 practices, a two-page Appendix on the topic of empathy, and some suggested study materials.
The content is agnostic with respect to the substance taken, the treatment of choice, and one’s personal recovery pathway.
The monograph will be released Thursday.
I hope someone out there finds it informative, helpful, practical, and inspiring.
