Trapped: Helping Clients Avoid Relapse
Would have been easy enough to avoid, had I seen it coming. Unfortunately the brain I was using to make decisions was the addicted one. It was not a friend to recovery.
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Posted by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 5, 2012 | Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
Would have been easy enough to avoid, had I seen it coming. Unfortunately the brain I was using to make decisions was the addicted one. It was not a friend to recovery.
Read MorePosted by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 4, 2012 | Addiction Clinicians, PDF Articles | 0 |
It’s not just what you present to your client — it’s how you present it. By following a few simple rules, you get better results. It’s not a perfect system, by any means. But it should improve outcomes.
Read MorePosted by C. Scott McMillin | May 28, 2012 | People in Recovery | 0 |
Mindfulness therapies are a way of stepping outside your everyday attitudes and beliefs — those automatic to your thinking — in order to consider alternatives that might improve your life.
Read MorePosted by C. Scott McMillin | May 27, 2012 | Addiction Clinicians | 1 |
It’s as if the addict is so accustomed to just acting on impulse that he/she has lost touch with the source of the impulse — ordinarily a negative emotional state such as anxiety, anger, sadness, etc.
Read MorePosted by C. Scott McMillin | May 22, 2012 | Addiction | 2 |
Much of the anxiety the addicted person feels is anticipatory, based not on actual withdrawal symptoms but on the fear of not being able to find an adequate supply of the drug when they arrive.
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