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Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to better understand the relationship between substance abuse counselors' personal recovery status, self-schemas, and willingness to use empirically supported treatments for substance use disorders.
Methods: A phenomenological qualitative study enrolled 12 practicing substance abuse counselors.
Results: Within this sample, recovering counselors tended to see those who suffer from addiction as qualitatively different from those who do not and hence themselves as similar to their patients, while nonrecovering counselors tended to see patients as experiencing a specific variety of the same basic human struggles everyone experiences, and hence also felt able to relate to their patients' struggles.
Discussion: Since empirically supported treatments may fit more or less neatly within one or the other of these viewpoints, this finding suggests that counselors' recovery status and corresponding self-schemas may be related to counselor willingness to learn and practice specific treatments.
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The Journal of Drug and Alcohol Research (JDAR) is a scholarly open access, peer-reviewed, and fully refereed journal dedicated to publishing sound papers on advances in the field of drug, opiate, nicotine and alcohol abuse, both basic and clinical. The journal will consider papers from all sub-disciplines and aspects of drug abuse, dependence and addiction research. Manuscripts will be published online as soon as they are accepted, which will reduce the time of publication. Because there are no space limitations or favored topics, all papers, within the scope of the journal, judged to be sound by the reviewers, will be published.
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