DSM-5 versus DSM-IV
Craving has finally been added to the symptom list. I was never entirely clear on why it wasn’t included in DSM-IV, since there’s an impressive body of research on craving measurement.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Addiction Counseling Ingredients
Stats are something we impose on them when there’s already another client waiting in the corridor and the charting still isn’t done.
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Counseling Effectiveness: Allegiance and Alliance
The challenge is to develop that relationship quickly enough to engage the client and create an environment that promotes success.
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Ethical Challenge
The law can reflect professional ethics, but many times it does not. It’s quite possible for a certain type of conduct to be within the law and yet not meet ethical standards.
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Professional Versus Not
From the beginning, it was designed to be a program for living… a grass-roots approach based not on scientific research or professional practice but on the direct experience of recovering persons.
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