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
Author: Brian Coon
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
Revisiting the Work of William White: “Recovery Carriers”
Summary In this paper, Bill describes the phenomena of addiction recovery being somehow primed in those who are still suffering, caught by those who are not “ready”, transmitted by those with this personal quality, and forming a critical mass of a different kind and higher potency when individuals with it gather. In doing so, he … Continue reading Revisiting the Work of William White: “Recovery Carriers”
Revisiting the Work of William White. “The Rhetoric of Recovery Advocacy”: An Essay On the Power of Language
Summary In another post in this series, I'll highlight Bill’s paper on the concept of the “recovery carrier”. For me, if I’m asked to single out one paper above all his others that I would have someone read first – as being most critical, brief, and easy to read – that would be the one. … Continue reading Revisiting the Work of William White. “The Rhetoric of Recovery Advocacy”: An Essay On the Power of Language
Proposing Two First-Rank Symptoms of Alcoholism
Jason Schwartz recently posted about the 11 DSM-5 criteria for SUD (APA, 2013). In doing so he discussed the: category of Substance Use Disorder in the DSM-5 as being too broad to be useful; ballooning of epidemiological data concerning the incidence and prevalence of addiction based on category errors in context of the DSM-5 SUD … Continue reading Proposing Two First-Rank Symptoms of Alcoholism
Who calls themselves a “former alumni” and what exactly does that mean?
If someone graduates from an academic degree program then that person is an alumnus of that institution, by definition. And of course, by definition, the status of being an alumnus is permanent. But concerning an addiction treatment program, some people might claim they are no longer an alumnus. At some point in the future they … Continue reading Who calls themselves a “former alumni” and what exactly does that mean?
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