| Barriers to Treatment for Women with Children
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| 2007-11-06 |
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Only a small percentage of addicted women ever enter a substance-abuse treatment program. The IOM Committee estimates that there are approximately 105,000 pregnant women each year who need drug treatment. Only 30,000 of these women receive any form of treatment, and very few of these are in programs with a primary focus on special services for pregnant women. |
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| How To Select a Drug Treatment Program
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| 2007-08-30 |
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Treatment must address the individual's drug use and associated medical, psychological, social, vocational, and legal problems. Treatment needs to be flexible and to provide ongoing assessments of patient needs, which may change during the course of treatment. |
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| Parenting Tips That Build Character When Your Kids Are Driving You Crazy
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| 2007-07-10 |
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Clinicians Corner | Family Issues
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I remember counseling a second grade boy who was a 'Sammy the Slacker.' One day his teacher confided, "When I tell my class, 'Children, please take out your readers,' Sammy leans back in his chair, his arms hanging over its back, and calls out, 'I can't find my book!' Sure enough, a little girl scrambles over, looks in his messy desk, and finds it for him." |
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| Learning from the past, rather than living in it
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| 2007-02-01 |
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Columnists | Family Issues | Of Interest To Everyone
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Do you sometimes feel like you're an unwilling victim of your past?
In my own life, having had my fair share of traumatic events take place, I still sometimes think, "Life has taught me some harsh lessons, and my scars do not heal easily." When I find myself thinking like this it usually means I've fallen into believing, "It's 'only natural' that traumatic experiences will lead to suffering in the future." You have to admit, such a quagmire of reasoning can be easy to get caught up in! |
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| SAMHSA Releases a New Set of Products for Use in Treating Stimulant Use Disorders
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| 2006-09-23 |
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Clinicians Corner | Family Issues | Treatment
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
announces the availability of four new products for the treatment of stimulant use disorders, the Matrix Intensive Outpatient Treatment for
People with Stimulant Use Disorders package. |
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| Behavioral Couples Therapy for Substance Abuse: Rationale, Methods, and Findings
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| 2006-01-31 |
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Clinicians Corner | Family Issues
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Behavioral couples therapy (BCT), a treatment approach for married or cohabiting drug abusers and their partners, attempts to reduce substance abuse directly and through restructuring the dysfunctional couple interactions that frequently help sustain it. In multiple studies with diverse populations, patients who engage in BCT have consistently reported greater reductions in substance use than have patients who receive only individual counseling. Couples receiving BCT also have reported higher levels of relationship satisfaction and more improvements in other areas of relationship and family functioning, including intimate partner violence and children's psychosocial adjustment.
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| Parents of Alcoholics
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| 2006-01-12 |
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I would like to find out where there are meetings for parents of kids that are alcoholics |
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| Domestic Violence
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| 2006-01-05 |
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Clinicians Corner | Family Issues
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Domestic Violence is a violent confrontation between family or household members involving physical harm, sexual assault, or fear of physical harm. Family or household members include spouses / former spouses, those in (or formerly in) a dating relationship, adults related by blood or marriage, and those who have a biological or legal parent-child relationship. |
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| The Dos and Don'ts of Coping With Addiction in the Family
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| 2005-11-30 |
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Don't make threats you don't intend to carry out. This will succeed only in reducing your credibility and in weakening the limits that you do intend to enforce. This is a downloadable list to use with family members. |
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| Alcohol Problems in Intimate Relationships: Identification and Intervention
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| 2005-11-13 |
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Family Issues | Treatment
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In a report to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the Institute of Medicine (IOM) called for a "broadening of the base for treatment" and widespread adoption of an alcohol problems framework. This framework casts a wide net for treatment efforts, explicitly targeting individuals (or families) who currently are experiencing or are at risk for experiencing alcohol problems. |
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