Can I Keep My Patients From Giving Up?
My outpatients get discouraged very easily. They may actually be doing pretty well for somebody new to recovery, but they don’t seem to realize it.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Intervention with a professional present?
So the professional’s real value to an intervention is as a guide. One who can offer something the family really does need: a degree of informed objectivity.
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Can We Make Patient Education Work?
Use examples. It’s hard for someone with alcoholism to grasp the idea that he or she can’t go back to drinking at some future point – after a year of abstinence, for instance. But the old saw that a pickle can’t go back to being a cucumber – that people seem to understand.
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The Innovation Shopper
Some will be the sort of folks who insist on using the latest and greatest. Others will represent large purchasers, searching for something that might work on patients who haven’t responded to other methods.
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I Think Maybe I Made a Mistake
The previous director is suddenly… nowhere to be found.
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