Pub Date : 2015-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2015.999616
J. Krejci, Quinn Neugebauer
Motivational interviewing (MI) has emerged as an evidence-based practice for addiction treatment. Firmly rooted in the client-centered schools of therapy, key concepts include the “spirit” of MI, the 4 processes, microskills, and the provision of feedback, advice, and suggestions within an MI framework. Strategies for adapting this approach to group therapy are reviewed and include strategies for blending individual and group processes, responding to change talk within the group setting, normalizing motivational differences, and incorporating skills-training protocols.
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Pub Date : 2015-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2015.999615
L. Lederman
The power of storytelling in recovery was demonstrated as early as the mid1930s when two alcoholics, Bill Wilson (a stockbroker) and Dr. Bob Smith (a surgeon), first met. Each had a long and disappointing history of attempts to stay sober. By sharing their drinking stories with one another, the two discovered that they helped each other achieve and maintain sobriety. Their discovery became a template for recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and for other 12-step programs that have sprung up over the decades since that time. The ability to talk about one’s addiction issues with other addicts plays an equally fundamental role in addiction treatment groups led by counselors or therapists. Tracing back to the mid-20th century, the longstanding therapeutic assumption is that in the safety of a group who shares a common problem, people are more willing to talk openly and honestly about their experiences, feelings, and behaviors. But communication among recovering addicts is more than the sharing of stories about their struggles (and successes) with their drug of choice. Although there clearly is a relationship between telling one’s story and staying clean or sober, it can be argued that it is talking itself that is the mechanism for change. Viewed through the lens of the role of communication in recovery, talking aloud about a shared condition allows recovering addicts to “hear themselves” and confront themselves whether that sharing takes place both in self-help and addiction treatment groups. Researchers who study communication have identified several different phenomena that shed light on the fundamental role that talking (especially storytelling) plays in the development of human beings. For example, the self-disclosures shared by one recovering addict increase the likelihood of reciprocal self-disclosures in the other person. Through their self-disclosures, people often discover that they no longer feel alone or different. Feeling less isolated and more connected and understood, they talk increasingly more honestly with one another. At the same time they are becoming more honest with themselves as they hear their own words. Some researchers have even gone so far to suggest that it is through the shared storytelling that many recovering alcoholics begin to see their multiple selves: the active addict self, the recovering self , and what I have referred to in my own work as the aspirational self . The aspirational
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Pub Date : 2015-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2015.999619
M. Gatta, C. Rotondo, M. Salis, E. Ferruzza
The present study analyzed focus groups (FGs) used as part of a prevention action project targeting students in their secondary school to identify a prevention strategy capable of modifying adolescents' opinions on alcohol and its consumption. This part of the research aimed to provide a 1st snapshot of the topics developed. Among the main topics that emerged spontaneously were: the idea that alcohol consumption is natural in our society; the limited awareness of the risks of drinking; the concept that there is a normal use of alcohol; and abuse being related to problems of physical and psychological health.
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Pub Date : 2015-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1556035x.2015.1023663
Sarah Elison, Lee Hogan, Glyn Davies
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Pub Date : 2015-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2015.999618
G. Novotna, M. Dobbins, J. Henderson, S. Jack, W. Sword, A. Niccols
Research suggests that some administrators of addiction agencies draw heavily on their personal recovery experience when making their decisions. The purpose of this study was to describe the role of personal recovery experience in administrators’ practice-related decision making. A qualitative study involving 23 administrators of Canadian addiction agencies was conducted. The interviewed administrators incorporated their personal recovery experience into (a) clinical decisions; (b) staff supervision and in-service training; (c) program planning, development, and administration; and (d) community service planning and policymaking. Future research should address the complexity of practice-related decision making among this group of decision makers.
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Pub Date : 2015-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2015.999621
E. Hennessy, Benjamin W. Fisher
This article describes results from a systematic review and meta-analysis of research exploring the relationship between adolescent 12-step program attendance and relapse after treatment. A systematic literature search was conducted resulting in 364 unduplicated abstracts to review. Four studies were eligible and were double-coded for variables. Outcome effect sizes were then analyzed in a random-effects model. The overall mean effect indicated beneficial results for adolescents who attended 12-step programs posttreatment. These findings support the clinical recommendation that adolescents attend 12-step programs, yet the findings highlight the need for future research among this population that clearly documents variables related to recovery outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2014-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1556035x.2014.981081
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Pub Date : 2014-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2014.967582
Barney Straus
A pair of books that are sharply critical of the addiction treatment industry were released by the popular press in 2013. Clean by David Sheff (2013) and Inside Rehab by Anne M. Fletcher (2013) both address America’s addiction epidemic and its treatment. The two books complement each other in several ways. While Sheff presents a sweeping polemic aimed at reforming the way we think about and treat addiction, Fletcher offers a more dispassionate critique of the treatment landscape. As is so often the case for those interested in addiction, both authors were motivated to write about the subject, at least in part, by personal experience: Sheff through being the parent of an addict and Fletcher through her own struggles with alcohol. As Sheff captured so poignantly in his 2008 memoir Beautiful Boy, he is the father of a drug-addicted son. Although Fletcher discussed her own struggle with problematic drinking in her 2001 book Sober for Good, she leaves out her personal experience in Inside Rehab and rather maintains the perspective of an objective investigator. Perhaps this is because she never was “inside rehab” during her own recovery. Nevertheless, both she and Sheff offer equally critical descriptions of our current system of care for those struggling with addictive disorders. Both authors use clear, straightforward prose that reveals their anger toward current addiction policy and treatment in the United States. Sheff’s primary thesis is that addiction should move swiftly away from being seen as a legal issue toward one that ought to be addressed purely as a medical problem. While many treatment centers, as well as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), have long subscribed to the “disease model” of addiction treatment and in more recent years the National Institute on Drug Abuse has termed addiction a “brain disease,” Sheff does much to help us remove the quotation marks around the word disease. Fletcher, on the other hand, uses such quotation marks, signaling her own skepticism about the legitimacy of
2013年，大众媒体出版了两本尖锐批评成瘾治疗行业的书。大卫·谢夫的《清洁》(2013)和安妮·m·弗莱彻的《内部康复》(2013)都探讨了美国的成瘾流行病及其治疗。这两本书在几个方面相辅相成。谢夫提出了一场旨在改革我们思考和治疗成瘾方式的全面论战，而弗莱彻则对治疗现状进行了更为冷静的批评。就像那些对成瘾感兴趣的人经常遇到的情况一样，两位作者都是出于个人经历而写作这个主题的，至少部分是出于个人经历:谢夫是一个瘾君子的父母，弗莱彻是她自己与酒精的斗争。正如谢夫在2008年出版的回忆录《美丽的男孩》(Beautiful Boy)中深刻描写的那样，他是一个吸毒成瘾儿子的父亲。虽然弗莱彻在她2001年出版的《永远清醒》一书中讨论了她自己与酗酒问题的斗争，但她在《内部康复》一书中没有提到她的个人经历，而是保持了一个客观调查者的视角。也许这是因为在她自己的康复过程中，她从来没有“进入康复中心”。尽管如此，她和谢夫都对我们目前对那些与成瘾障碍作斗争的人的护理体系进行了同样批判的描述。两位作者都用清晰、直白的文字表达了他们对美国当前成瘾政策和治疗的愤怒。谢夫的主要论点是，成瘾应该迅速从一个法律问题转变为一个纯粹的医学问题。虽然许多治疗中心，包括匿名戒酒会(AA)，长期以来一直认同成瘾治疗的“疾病模式”，近年来，国家药物滥用研究所(National Institute on Drug Abuse)将成瘾称为“脑部疾病”，但谢夫做了很多工作，帮助我们去掉了“疾病”这个词的引号。弗莱彻，另一方面，使用这样的引号，表明她自己对合法性的怀疑
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Pub Date : 2014-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2014.969059
Sterling T. Shumway, John B. Dakin, Sara Smock Jordan, T. Kimball, K. Harris, Spencer D. Bradshaw
A large body of research exists on the causes, effects/consequences, and treatment of substance use disorder (SUD). However, studies on recovery from SUD, including its definition, factors, and sustainability, are lacking. The purpose of this study is to identify and assess the factors of recovery from SUD by developing and testing the Hope and Coping in Recovery Measure (HCRM). A principal components analysis revealed two distinct factors (hope and coping) to be present in the process of recovery from SUD. Implications for future research on the recovery process and the HCRM are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2014-10-02DOI: 10.1080/1556035X.2014.967576
Y. Amram, R. Benbenishty
Therapeutic communities (TCs) aim to help people with substance use disorders change their lifestyle and reintegrate into society. Addicts seek therapy when they feel they have lost control over their lives. Therapeutic factors (TFs) are those aspects of the therapeutic process that stimulate the desired change. This article examines TF perceptions among clients in TCs and the impact of those factors on changing the locus of control (LOC) during the therapeutic process. The findings indicate that perceptions of TFs improved as treatment progressed, and LOC steadily increased during the treatment process. In addition, the higher the perceived level of TFs at the beginning of the process, the more the participants experienced a steady growth in their internal LOC for their lives.
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