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Individual or Group Therapy… Two Roads to the Same Destination
Very often, people new to the work of psychotherapy wonder which of the two models of treatment – individual or group session – is best to treat their concerns. The…
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Fourteen Dysfunctional Thoughts That Can Keep People Sick
Dr. David Burns wrote a classic self-help book to help relieve depression and other psychological problems called Feeling Good (1980). In it he outlined a number of dysfunctional thoughts that…
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Spiritual Care: The Missing Piece in Addiction Treatment?
Do spiritual care professionals belong in addiction treatment? If so, then how? This article poses these questions to a group of spiritual care professionals from across the country who have…
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Counseling Codependency and Resilience
There’s something about the backgrounds of chemical dependency counselors that draws them to the counseling profession. There are 23 million recovering people in the United States, and they do not…
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Use Compassion and Confrontation Together
We live in a society that thinks in extremes – black and white, good and bad, right and wrong. We don’t have to look any farther than the current Presidential…
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“My Way or the Highway:” A Group Motivational Exercise
Fact: A healthy percentage of alcoholics/addicts voice their decision to pick up the first drink/drug of physical relapse with an expletive. And all who do this have at least one…
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Increasing Positive Patient Outcomes Part 1
Until recently it has been believed that positive treatment outcome is influenced by either patient variables, treatment variables or their interaction. Numerous studies have explored the impact of these variables…
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