Effective Group Design: Assumptions
Building the group model around that common experience, and change-specific tasks or goals, may increase the chances for a successful outcome.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Intervener Basics
The same people whose “enabling” actions allow the disease to flourish— and who may feel helpless to confront it— are the ones who can be most effective as interveners.
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The Readiness is All
When addicts and alcoholics are unprepared for the reality of sobriety, it’s all too easy to run back to the familiar hell of addiction.
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Stronger Together: Addiction Group Treatment
Practically every form of group devised has been adapted and put to use at some facility.
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The Malibu Mindset
What does a place like that have in common with a big-city program filled with homeless addicts who have multiple social problems and co-occurring disorders and perhaps haven’t held a job in decades?
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