| Setting Career Goals Helps Addiction Treatment
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| 2007-01-04 |
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A significant percentage of those who are chemically dependent have career-related issues that have contributed to their addiction. They are bored or unfulfilled with their work, or their drinking or drug use has affected their job performance to such a degree that others lose trust in them and their abilities. Some lose their job and their standard of living.
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| Recovery Community Services Program
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| 2006-10-08 |
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Of Interest To Everyone | Treatment
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A newly developing practice, peer support services are not treatment or post-treatment services provided by professionals, but rather support services from people who share the experiences of addiction and recovery. |
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| Sponsor, Recovery Coach, Addiction Counselor: The Importance of Role Clarity and Role Integrity
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| 2006-06-20 |
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Clinicians Corner | Treatment
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New service roles sprout from the soil of unmet need. In the current worlds of addiction treatment and addiction recovery, a new role is emerging to bridge the chasm between brief professional treatment in an institution setting and sustainable recovery within each client's natural environment. This role is embraced under numerous titles: recovery coach, recovery manager, recovery mentor, recovery support specialist, recovery guide, personal recovery assistant, and helping healer. |
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| Alcoholism: The Science Made Easy
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| 2006-02-05 |
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Clinical Supervision | Of Interest To Everyone | Treatment
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Alcoholism: The Science Made Easy is a publication from the ATTC National Office, the Research Society on Alcoholism and its journal, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. The book includes approximately 100 Addiction Science Made Easy articles arranged by topic. It presents current research relating to alcohol abuse and alcoholism in a concise, easy-to-understand format for educators and clinical supervisors to use in educating students, practitioners, clients and the public. Use these articles as the basis for presentations and handouts in trainings and classrooms. Tear out the pages, make copies, post them in your break room, pass them out to students, etc |
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| Telephone-Based Continuing Care Sustains Abstinence
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| 2005-11-26 |
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Clinicians Corner | Treatment
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Telephone-based continuing care programs in which an addiction counselor supports patient recovery with 15-minute calls once a week, can be as good as or better than face-to-face care at helping most patients maintain abstinence after intensive outpatient treatment (lOP). |
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| Career Portfolios
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| 2005-11-04 |
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Credentialing | Employment | Of Interest To Everyone | Treatment
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Career portfolios provide evidence of individuals' knowledge and skills in working with data, people, and things. This Brief describes practices in developing and using portfolios for career-related purposes. |
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