I've completed a monograph that calls for change in the addiction treatment arena. It focuses on our need to modify our settings and services to a tobacco-free and smoke-free model of care. Below is the Abstract followed by the full text of the monograph. Acknowledgements. I would like to thank the following people for their … Continue reading Addiction Treatment Except for Tobacco and Nicotine: A Call for Change
Category: Monographs
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
Essays on Addiction Counseling
What is this work, and why have I undertaken it? It’s a series of essays that reflect some of my thoughts at this stage of my career. My hope is someone finds something here that is instructive, inspiring, challenging, or helpful. The essays are an attempt to work things out. Sometimes I say what … Continue reading Essays on Addiction Counseling
The Recovery Alliance Initiative: History, Methods, and Purpose
In the summer of 2022 I wrote a 6-part series describing the Recovery Alliance Initiative (RAI). A full monograph of that material is at the bottom of this post. The Alliance, as we call it, is a set of principles and practices that identifies and involves various sectors in the community that serve or touch … Continue reading The Recovery Alliance Initiative: History, Methods, and Purpose
Screening and Assessment of Substance Use Disorders
Below is a PDF of a monograph I've completed on the topic of screening and assessment of SUDs. Other than individual and group counseling, it's hard for me to think of a task more central to the work of addiction counseling than screening and assessment. And in today's world, with the pace of change concerning … Continue reading Screening and Assessment of Substance Use Disorders
Clinical Supervision of Clinical Supervision
Disclaimer: Nothing in this document should be taken or held as clinical instruction, clinical supervision, or advisory concerning patient care. Below is the full text of a monograph on the clinical supervision of clinical supervision. The work includes material addressing: Four particular stories from my career that apply to the importance of the topic A model … Continue reading Clinical Supervision of Clinical Supervision
Depth Psychology Applied to Addiction Counseling
Disclaimer: Nothing in this document should be taken or held as clinical instruction, clinical supervision, or advisory concerning patient care. Below is the full text of a 98 page monograph I have written on depth psychology applied to addiction counseling. My plan is to eventually re-write the main content in the form of a simple … Continue reading Depth Psychology Applied to Addiction Counseling
Addiction and the Stages of Healing – full text version
Disclaimer: nothing in this content should be taken or held as clinical instruction, clinical supervision, or advisory concerning patient care. Regular readers of Recovery Review might be familiar with my 2019 series entitled "Addiction and the Stages of Healing". The content of that series is a single work outlining my wished-for innovations in our SUD … Continue reading Addiction and the Stages of Healing – full text version
Topic From the Field: The “Rat Park” Experiment
Disclaimer: nothing in this content should be taken or held as clinical instruction, clinical supervision, or advisory concerning patient care. Recently, I was asked if I had heard some comments about, “Almost everything you think you know about addiction being wrong…”, and what I thought about those comments. From that, my guess was that the … Continue reading Topic From the Field: The “Rat Park” Experiment
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