Pub Date : 2016-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2016.1136150
T. Lyons
The four articles appearing in this volume of the Journal of Groups in Addiction & Recovery are each, in different ways, an essay in the application of theory to the problem of addiction. Theory underlies the presentation of observational evidence, intervention research, and systematic reviews of research in these four articles. The Kuhnian paradigm shift applies in the fields of social science as well as in the natural sciences. In the field of psychopathology, for instance, Freudian theories were supplanted by cognitive-behavioral theory by the 1970s and 1980s. However, Freudian theory did not thereby lose its significance; it is the basis for depth psychology, and contemporary understandings of mental illness would be impossible without it. Gatta and colleagues present research on an interventionmethod, which they call the focus group, in the prevention of alcohol abuse among Italian teenagers. They compare self-reported alcohol consumption among a group of teenagers randomly assigned to attend four focus-group sessions held weekly in school versus a control group who attended a brief informational session only. At baseline, a majority of teens in the sample, aged an average 15 years old, were reporting alcohol consumption, despite World Health Organization guidelines that state young people this age should abstain from alcohol. Gatta et al. found that the students who attended the focus groups reduced their alcohol consumption more at posttest than the control group. This study is significant in that the intervention is a relatively simple schoolbased activity. In this study, theory is implicit. As Gatta and colleagues demonstrate, group discussions are powerful vehicles for behavior change even when the exact mechanisms whereby the groups effect change are unexplored. The article by Bradshaw and colleagues is also an intervention study of a 1.5day program for alcoholics and their families. Bradshaw and colleagues measured family functioning and personal readiness to change before and after the intervention. Among other findings, they observed, somewhat paradoxically, that higher levels of family functioning prior to the intervention were negatively associated with personal readiness to change after the intervention. They present interesting speculations arising from this finding and directions for further research. This study, like the Gatta et al. study, is based on a group intervention, but for a very different population—families rather than unrelated high school students. The mechanisms of change in the intervention are again not specified in this article. In contrast to the first two studies, the article by Corrigan is a qualitative observational study of Al-Anon. Like the other 12-step movements that have arisen from Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon is best understood as a social movement, rather than a professional therapy or intervention per se. Corrigan interviewed Al-Anon participants both in small groups (two groups of five and three
《成瘾与康复团体杂志》这一卷中的四篇文章，从不同的角度来说，都是一篇理论应用于成瘾问题的文章。在这四篇文章中，理论是观察证据、干预研究和系统研究综述的基础。Kuhnian范式转换不仅适用于自然科学领域，也适用于社会科学领域。例如，在精神病理学领域，弗洛伊德理论在20世纪70年代和80年代被认知行为理论所取代。然而，弗洛伊德的理论并没有因此失去它的意义;它是深度心理学的基础，没有它，当代对精神疾病的理解是不可能的。Gatta和他的同事们介绍了一种干预方法，他们称之为焦点小组，用于预防意大利青少年酗酒。他们比较了一组青少年的自我报告饮酒量，这些青少年被随机分配参加每周在学校举行的四次焦点小组会议，而对照组只参加了简短的信息会议。尽管世界卫生组织(World Health Organization)的指导方针指出，这个年龄段的年轻人应该戒酒，但在基线时，样本中大多数平均年龄为15岁的青少年都在报告饮酒。Gatta等人发现，参加焦点小组的学生在测试后比对照组更能减少饮酒量。这项研究的意义在于干预是一种相对简单的基于学校的活动。在本研究中，理论是隐含的。正如Gatta及其同事所证明的那样，小组讨论是改变行为的有力工具，即使小组影响改变的确切机制尚不清楚。布拉德肖及其同事的这篇文章也是一项针对酗酒者及其家庭的1.5天项目的干预研究。布拉德肖和同事们在干预前后测量了家庭功能和个人改变的准备程度。在其他发现中，他们观察到，在干预之前较高水平的家庭功能与干预后个人改变的准备程度呈负相关，这有点矛盾。他们从这一发现中提出了有趣的推测和进一步研究的方向。这项研究，像Gatta等人的研究一样，是基于群体干预，但针对的是一个非常不同的人群——家庭，而不是不相关的高中生。在这篇文章中，改变干预的机制也没有具体说明。与前两项研究相比，科里根的文章是对匿名者协会的定性观察研究。就像匿名戒酒会产生的其他12步运动一样，匿名戒酒会最好被理解为一种社会运动，而不是一种专业治疗或干预本身。科里根采访了匿名者协会的参与者，包括小组(两组五人或三人)和
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Pub Date : 2016-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1556035x.2016.1136152
Patricia E. Penn, D. Brooke, A. Brooks, S. Gallagher, Allison D. Barnard, A. Sotskova, Erica M. Woodin, Laura Aslan, T. Parkman, Nina Skagerlind
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Pub Date : 2016-01-01Epub Date: 2016-10-11DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2016.1211058
Maurya Glaude, Luis R Torres
Recovery High Schools (RHSs) have been among the continuum of care for adolescents experiencing addiction since 1979 (Moberg & Finch, 2008). Outcome studies for RHSs are limited, and even less is known about RHS engagement of Hispanics. RHS students are overwhelmingly middle-class non-Hispanic White students with prior formal treatment (Moberg & Finch, 2008). Hispanic youth are more likely to live in discordant low-income ethnic enclaves, placing them at high risk for addictive disorders (Torres, Kaplan, & Valdez, 2011). The individualized approach of RHSs could make them a culturally relevant continuing care intervention. This paper reviews the literature to explore the use of RHSs by Hispanics.
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Pub Date : 2015-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2015.1099922
J. Lindenmeyer
Most of the helping professionals in the field of substance abuse problems do their work with a lot of engagement and good will. But their work is very often mainly based on a mixture of selectively remembered personal experience and personal convictions while lacking profound scientific knowledge of what really works best for their clients. On the other hand, many clinicians complain that addiction research is not really helpful because their daily work with patients is much more complex than typical research designs. For this reason, it is with great pleasure that I start my new role as guest editor of the Journal of Groups in Addiction & Recovery by presenting two articles that, besides their diverse subjects, share their emphasis on the need for a better scientific understanding of prevention and treatment efforts in the field:
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Pub Date : 2015-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1556035x.2015.1099919
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Pub Date : 2015-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2015.1089805
Angela J. Nash, M. Marcus, J. Engebretson, O. Bukstein
Though “recovery management” is the current paradigm for substance use disorder treatment, the mechanisms and processes by which adolescents achieve long-term recovery remain undefined. Seeking to learn from those with lived experience, the author conducted an extensive ethnography with participants of an established but previously unstudied recovery support program. The alternative peer group (APG) model blends positive peer influence with clinical practice to help adolescents achieve recovery. This overview manuscript expands the definition of adolescent recovery and identifies treatment and contextual elements that promote the recovery process. A model for adolescent recovery is proposed, and implications for research and practice are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2015-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2015.1099125
Spencer D. Bradshaw, Sterling T. Shumway, Eugene W. Wang, K. Harris, Douglas B. Smith, Heather Austin-Robillard
Addiction adversely affects families, making family recovery important. Family members appear to benefit from hope, healthy coping skills, and a readiness to change. Family recovery research is limited and relationships between these variables are underexplored. Using structural equation modeling, preparation for change at initial assessment before a family treatment program predicted higher hope and coping skills after participation. Initial levels of hope predicted coping skills posttreatment. Gender, treatment track of the addict, and family members’ relation to the addict showed significant effects. The importance of family members’ hope, coping, and readiness to change in family recovery are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2015-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2015.1067081
David H. Johnson, A. Cicchetti
It seems like everywhere we turn these days, someone is talking about the topic of diversity, and we think this is a very good development in our society. Just a quick search of the literature surrounding “diversity” reveals that diversity enjoys a diverse audience ranging from nursing (Benton, 2009) to public administration (Lewis, 2011) to orchestras (Schweitzer, 2014) to European football (Maderer, Holtbrügge, & Schuster, 2014) to American cuisine (Andriani, 2010). Diversity is becoming ever more diverse. America’s national motto, e pluribus unum (“Out of many, one”), was adopted in 1776, and although many believe it refers to a single nation arising out of 13 colonies or states, it originated out of the original proposal for a national seal, a proposal that was not adopted but included the symbols for the 6 “Countries from which these States have been peopled” (MacArthur, 2015). For those who care to know, the 6 countries were England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, and Germany. Though the seal was not adopted, the motto was and we have seen it on our money ever since. Learning about our differences helps us to respect, if not embrace, those around us. In working with and helping those with addictions, we serve a diverse group of people, we serve alongside diverse practitioners, and we serve through diverse means and methods. This issue of Journal of Groups in Addiction and Recovery takes diversity as its theme. In these pages, you will find articles from scholars in Finland, Norway, France, England, and the United States. They report on work they have been doing with clientele who are as varied as Al-Anon members in Finland to American Indians in the Northern United States. Treatments range from residential addiction treatment to peer support self-help groups to psychotherapy. We are excited to present such a diverse array of knowledge for our journal readers in this issue. Kuuluvainen and Isotalus provide a thematic analysis of the association between supportive communication and the helping mechanisms of Al-Anon support groups. Their investigation reveals six mechanisms across two levels of supportive communication. Johansen, Ness, and Wennesland present an explanatory case study focused on leadership processes in self-help programs. In contrast to 12-step programs, this study looks at a professionally led self-help program in Norway and draws comparisons between the top-down leadership model of the Norwegian program and the peer-led processes of Alcoholics Anonymous and similar 12-step programs.
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Pub Date : 2015-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2015.1066725
Venla Kuuluvainen, P. Isotalus
Al-Anon members (n = 20) were interviewed to investigate the association between communication and the helping mechanisms of Al-Anon. The research material was thematically analyzed and resulted in six mechanisms of supportive communication (sense of belonging, seeing oneself in relation to others, experiencing self-efficacy, developing a new story, moving the attention to oneself, and finding building blocks of recovery) that operated at two levels of supportive communication: content and relationships. These results provide an outlook on the communication that produces helping mechanisms in mutual-support groups.
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Pub Date : 2015-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2015.1066728
S. Davies, Pavlos C. Filippopoulos
Time perspective (TP) refers to an individual's subjective relationship to the past, present, and future. Zimbardo's Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI) is a scale designed to capture 5 distinct constructs of subjective temporality (Zimbardo & Boyd, 1999). It is regarded as a valid predictor of health-related choices and mental health. This mixed methodological study investigates psychological perspectives of time in a group of 63 individuals seeking help for alcohol/drug dependence issues who then successfully completed a group residential addiction treatment intervention. Measures of TP using a short-form ZTPI and a qualitative component were taken at preintervention and postintervention along with scores of depression and anxiety. Findings demonstrated that past-negative, present-fatalism, and present-hedonistic TPs were significantly positively associated with depression and anxiety. Significant negative relationships were found between mental health concerns and both past-positive and future TPs. Distinct changes were revealed in temporality between premeasures and postmeasures of the addiction treatment intervention from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives highlighting significant adaptations in relationships to time. The potential use and implications of these findings for understanding addiction and considering psychotherapeutic treatment are discussed.
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