I searched for a more recent research article in the area of pain/ostracism and came across this paper. It's open access with the full text freely available. And it's not a terribly difficult read. I've had a sustained interest in the areas of psychic pain and physical pain for a good number of years. I'm … Continue reading Research Article Review: “Acute Ostracism-Related Pain Sensitization in the Context of Accumulated Lifetime Experiences of Ostracism”

Here is a link to Episode #68 of The RCORPodcast. I am posting the link to this episode due to the wonderful content. Here's an overview and table of contents of the episode, quoted from their site: Dr. Austin Brown is a recovery scientist currently living in Denmark. With a recovery journey that featured stops … Continue reading Podcast episode #68: “Recovery-Informed Research and Theory”

In this Open Access article, the authors note, Data from 32,033 cognitively-healthy adults aged 50-104 years participating in prospective cohort studies of aging from 14 European countries were used to examine associations of lifestyle with memory and fluency decline over 10 years. And that, We thus show that differences in cognitive decline between lifestyles were … Continue reading Research Article Review: “Healthy lifestyle and cognitive decline in middle-aged and older adults residing in 14 European countries”

The "Preserving the Message" website is up, publicly available, and it's an amazing resource. Here's the address: https://preservingthemessage.org/ What purpose does the Preserving the Message website serve? From the site: "Preserving the life-saving message of Narcotics Anonymous by archiving and sharing its history" The searchable archive of documents and media files is amazing all on … Continue reading The “Preserving the Message” Website

At this stage of my career, it seems to me that “Addiction Counseling” is one thing made from the following four essential ingredients:  listening with the “third ear”; those unique competencies and skills that are particular to the professional addiction counselor; the competencies and skills particular to the recovery coach; and finally, the qualities of … Continue reading What is Addiction Counseling?

Disclaimer:  nothing in this post should be taken or held as clinical instruction, clinical supervision, or advisory concerning patient care.  Around 25 years ago the topic of a “list of things worth memorizing” was presented by a trainer who came to our agency.  The trainer suggested a list of things worth memorizing could be helpful … Continue reading A List of Things Worth Memorizing (for clinicians)

Disclaimer:  nothing in this post should be taken or held as clinical instruction, clinical supervision, or advisory concerning patient care.  In Part 1 of this topic from the field I addressed the problem of treatment plans that seem to reflect the counselor more than the patient.  In doing so, I described some ways to assess … Continue reading Topic from the field:  A problem with treatment plans. Part 2 – Some considerations toward improved treatment planning