In the mid 1990’s someone on my caseload said something I’ve never forgotten. And every time I try to tell this story I find it hard to tell without starting to cry. This happened in our 9-12 month women’s residential program. In addition to our adult female patients, we had space for 14 children from … Continue reading “I’m not mad at the birds anymore.”
Author: Brian Coon
Psychosis-related emergency department and hospitalization rates in Colorado after cannabis legalization
Here’s a recent study examining rates of emergency department encounters and hospitalizations in Colorado among youth following cannabis legalization. Overall, I find several portions of this work rather interesting. Below, I provide some quotations from the Abstract, Discussion, and Conclusion sections. The information below brings to mind for me the positive movement forward that has … Continue reading Psychosis-related emergency department and hospitalization rates in Colorado after cannabis legalization
Using Both Lenses: Academic/Evidence-Based and Psychodynamic
Disclaimer: nothing in this content should be taken or held as clinical instruction, clinical supervision, or advisory concerning patient care. One way to think about clinical work in addiction counseling is through the lens of academic and evidence-based practices. And another way is to use the lens of psychodynamic approaches. Below, find a simplified way … Continue reading Using Both Lenses: Academic/Evidence-Based and Psychodynamic
Five-Year System for Severe SUDs: The Model, Functions, and Focus Areas
Here, the 5 year model monograph is reduced to a one-pager. The notion of reducing the monograph to a one-pager was given to me by Katlyn Nordstrom, and I greatly appreciate that suggestion. What follows is the content of the one-pager. I'm guessing I might continue to adapt the material in the monograph into tools … Continue reading Five-Year System for Severe SUDs: The Model, Functions, and Focus Areas
An Introduction to Psychodynamic Foundations of Counseling and Related Clinical Supervision for SUDs
Disclaimer: Nothing in this document should be taken or held as clinical instruction, clinical supervision, or advisory concerning patient care. Psychodynamic Models and SUD Severe FINALDownload This monograph responds...by introducing some elementary but foundational philosophical pre-conditions to psychodynamic models and their application to the SUD professional’s core function of case conceptualization. Next, elementary entrance points to … Continue reading An Introduction to Psychodynamic Foundations of Counseling and Related Clinical Supervision for SUDs
5 Year Continuing Care System for High Severity, Complexity, and Chronicity SUD’s: Clinical Targets, Methods, and Increments of Time
5 Year Management Severe SUD FINALDownload I had always assumed that well before now someone would have compiled and consolidated some of the later-arriving recovery-oriented academic research findings into a framework suitable for clinical implementation. If such work has been completed, I have not seen it. Now, having waited longer than I had hoped, I … Continue reading 5 Year Continuing Care System for High Severity, Complexity, and Chronicity SUD’s: Clinical Targets, Methods, and Increments of Time
Revisiting the Work of William White. “Alcoholism/Addiction as a Chronic Disease: From Rhetoric to Clinical Reality”
This foundational paper can be found in various places. Currently, the most convenient place to find the paper is the archive of Bill's materials at the Lighthouse website. As of today, this link does work for free access to the full paper, from the new location archiving his papers. (The section of their website containing … Continue reading Revisiting the Work of William White. “Alcoholism/Addiction as a Chronic Disease: From Rhetoric to Clinical Reality”
Revisiting the Work of William White. “The Road Not Taken: The Lost Roots of Addiction Counseling”
Let's take a look at some of the statements Bill White makes in his 2003 paper on the lost roots of addiction counseling. And as we do, let's think about the context we currently see in the addiction treatment and SUD services space. What points in this paper help us have clarity about our work … Continue reading Revisiting the Work of William White. “The Road Not Taken: The Lost Roots of Addiction Counseling”
Revisiting the Work of William White: “Treatment Works! Time for a new slogan”
In his 4 ½ page paper from 2005 titled, “Treatment Works! Time for a new slogan”, Bill provides a look at the pro-treatment, pro-recovery, and de-stigmatizing slogan promulgated by many including the US government: "Treatment Works!”. In doing so he accurately outlines the advantages of sloganeering, and some of the positives inherent in the “Treatment … Continue reading Revisiting the Work of William White: “Treatment Works! Time for a new slogan”
Revisiting the Work of William White. Behavioral Health Recovery Management: Statement of Principles
I encourage everyone to take a few minutes and carefully read this 2 1/2 page document from 2001. I can think of no single paper Bill has been involved in that has impacted my day-to-day clinical life and activity more than the BHRM Statement of Principles. That brief document is immediately below. BHRM Statement of … Continue reading Revisiting the Work of William White. Behavioral Health Recovery Management: Statement of Principles
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