Maintaining appropriate boundaries One of the core concepts of ethical counseling involves the complex area of maintaining appropriate professional boundaries. Most counselors know that there are ethical risks to developing relationships outside of the therapeutic role, such as counseling a …
Clients need motivational support appropriate to their stage of change. If the clinician does not use strategies appropriate to the stage the client is in, treatment resistance or noncompliance could result. To consider change, clients at the precontemplation stage must …
Clients need motivational support appropriate to their stage of change. If the clinician does not use strategies appropriate to the stage the client is in, treatment resistance or noncompliance could result. A model consisting of five stages of change that …
As clients move through different stages of recovery, treatment must move with them. That is, therapeutic strategies and leadership roles will change with the condition of the clients. In the early phase of treatment clients tend to be ambivalent about …
Co-dependency occurs when another individual is affected and ultimately controlled by the addict’s addictive behavior. Codependency is a learned behavior that affects an individual’s ability to have a healthy, mutually satisfying relationship. It is also known as “relationship addiction”. Addiction …
Treating adult clients in groups has many advantages, as well as some risks. Any treatment modality—group therapy, individual therapy, family therapy, and medication—can yield poor results if applied indiscriminately or administered by an unskilled or improperly trained therapist. The potential …
Group therapy and addiction treatment are natural allies. One reason is that people who abuse substances often are more likely to remain abstinent and committed to recovery when treatment is provided in groups, apparently because of rewarding and therapeutic forces …
The natural propensity of human beings to congregate makes group therapy a powerful therapeutic tool for treating substance abuse, one that is as helpful as individual therapy, and sometimes more successful. One reason for this efficacy is that groups intrinsically …
Is the most effective counselor the individual entering the field through their personal trials/tribulations, recovery and counseling experiences or the counselor prepared through specialized academic training programs? Is it the counselor with “on the job training and a personal recovery” …