Motivational Interviewing. Change: Desire, Ability, Reason, Need, and Commitment
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The Readiness Ruler as a Measure of Readiness to Change Poly-Drug Use in Drug Abusers
Abstract
Readiness to change is a crucial issue in the treatment of substance use disorders. Experiences with methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) has shown that continuous drug and alcohol use with all its consequences characterize most...
Transference vs. Countertransference: What’s the big deal?
You may be feeling overwhelmed by the number of new terms, theories, and practices you are learning. With all of the clinical information, you are consuming it can be easy to gloss over the concepts of transference and countertransference.
...What Are the Respiratory Effects of E-cigarettes?
Paper is open source. Abstract copied from paper:
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are alternative, non-combustible tobacco products that generate an inhalable aerosol containing nicotine, flavors, propylene glycol, and vegetable...
OARS Model: Essential Communication Skills
OARS is a skills-based, client-centered model of interactive techniques. These skills include verbal and non-verbal responses and behaviors that need to be culturally sensitive and appropriate. This model integrates the five principles of...
Communication Techniques - OARS
OARS is a skill-based model of interactions adapted from a client-centered approach used in Motivational Interviewing. These skill-based techniques include verbal and non-verbal responses and behaviors. Both verbal and non-verbal techniques...
Motivational Interviewing: Open Questions, Affirmation, Reflective Listening, and Summary Reflections (OARS)
Motivational Interviewing provides a foundation for assisting individuals with developing the rationale for beginning change in their lives. This resources provides basic information about the principles on communicating using motivational...
Resilience in Paco Addiction Treatments
This paper presents the results of a study on the factors promoting the rehabilitation of adolescents treated for paco addiction, from the point of view of resilience, i.e. the understanding and ability to cope with life's difficulties...
IntNSA 2019 Annual Educational Conference
This conference focuses on the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for any nurse who cares for persons with substance use, abuse, and addictions. Providing patient-centred care through prevention, screening, treatment and recovery...
The Forest and the Trees: Relational and Specific Factors in Addiction Treatment
Abstract
Aims
Increased expectations for the use of evidence‐based methods in addiction treatment have fueled a debate regarding the relative importance of ‘specific’ versus ‘common’ factors in treatment outcome. This review explores the...
The Role of the Early Therapeutic Alliance in Predicting Drug Treatment Dropout
Abstract
Background
To investigate the role of the therapeutic alliance in predicting length of retention in residential drug treatment.
Methods
The study recruited 187 clients starting residential rehabilitation treatment for drug...
The Role of the Therapeutic Alliance in the Treatment of Substance Misuse: A Critical Review of the Literature
ABSTRACT
Background: In the past two decades, a number of studies investigating the role of the therapeutic alliance in drug treatment have been published and it is timely that their findings are brought together in a comprehensive review...
Alcohol Abuse in High School Students in Buenos Aires City
The purpose of this study is to characterize the prevalence of the use and abuse of alcohol in high school students in Buenos Aires City. During October 2014, 2870 surveys were collected on a representative sample, probabilistic and two...
Lift UP Workshop - 2019
5 members of the Pakistan U.S. Alumni group participated in the “Prevention of Violence against Women Living in Drug Affected Families”
Adv. Zia Awan - IVLP
Rana Asif Habib - IVLP
Kiran Mushtaq - IVLP
Dr Salman Baig - Hubert Humphrey Fellow...
European Prevention Curriculum
This week the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has released the European Prevention Curriculum - a handbook designed for decision, opinion and policy makers in science-based prevention of substance use. The...
Pharmacotherapy for Methamphetamine/Amphetamine Use Disorder — A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
This meta-analysis of research on medication to treat methamphetamine use disorder finds that only one medication, methylphenidate, has any efficacy in reducing use.
The European Drug Prevention Quality Standards Toolkits
The European Drug Prevention Quality Standards have been established to
provide a comprehensive set of criteria to help users learn how to recognise 'high quality' prevention activities, outline the necessary structurally and procedural...
Recovery Month 2019
Every September the Recovery Month Campaign aims to increase awareness and understanding of mental and substance use disorders and celebrate the people who recover.
Over the years, Recovery Month has promoted and supported new evidence...
Tobacco and the Environment
The life cycle of a cigarette takes a heavy toll
on the environment from growing the tobacco plant to the disposal of butts and packaging.
Although the ecological impacts of tobacco are overshadowed by its devastating effects on human...
Prevention of Drug-Related Deaths
Opioids are a class of drugs that act on the nervous system to produce feelings of pleasure and pain relief. Opioids have a high potential for causing addiction in some people and can cause life-threatening health problems, including the...