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Safety First! The Client's Treatment Comes Second
By William A. Howatt PhD, EdD, ICADC Post Doc UCLA School of Medicine
The primary goal of addiction counseling is to assist clients in finding a healthy road to recovery. This mission is important, but is secondary. The first mission is safety. Three clear examples support this assertion: 1) client safety (e.g., safe from abuse); 2) community safety (e.g., not a danger to family or others); and, 3) counselor's safety (both physical and psychological). All three are of equal importance. More Safety
Post Holiday Weight Loss Tips
By John Newport, PhD, author of The Wellness-Recovery Connection
Let's face it – we all have a tendency to “gross out” on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, and for many people, the holiday season becomes a day-by-day ritual of consuming cookies, pastries and other holiday treats. Unfortunately, the cumulative results of holiday weight gain add up over the years, making a major contribution to our national epidemic of “excess baggage” around the waistline. More Weight Loss
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Facts and Myths Surrounding Methamphetamine Addiction and Treatment
by Rachel Gonzales, MPH and Richard Rawson, PhD
True or False:
- 99 percent of first-time meth users are hooked after just the first try.
- Only 5 percent of meth addicts are able to kick it and stay away.
- From the first hit to the last breath, the life expectancy of a habitual meth user is only five years. More Facts and Myths
How Angry Are You? (HAAY)
By Sylvia Kay Fisher, PhD and Ronnie Fisher, EdS - Educational Measurement and Evaluation
This How Angry Are You? (HAAY) Assessment Tool assesses the degree of anger and frustration experienced by the client by asking clients to report their degree of anger with respect to environmental stimuli. Stimuli included in the HAAY represent typical events, circumstances, and situations that people are likely to encounter frequently. While most people are likely to become frustrated and/or angry over some of these stimuli to a mild or moderate degree, people who report being very angry due to many of these events may benefit from counseling interventions.
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Gaining Trust and Rapport with Involuntary Clients
By Kolleen L. Simons, MSW, LCSW
Likely, the most difficult clients are those that are not at your office because THEY want to be, but are there because they are court ordered, or have been ordered to therapy by a family member. These clients usually are not very cooperative or open. However, while these clients do not initially want to be there, and may be very hesitant to open up to the counselor, this is not necessarily a hopeless situation. The counselor first needs to gain the trust of these wary or reluctant clients.
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