The Professional as Target: Being Manipulated
As a professional, you have an agenda to fulfill. So too does the person in active addiction. Their agenda is very different, but they’re even more committed to it.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Establishing Credibility
For some reason, the clients paid little attention to his advice. Most of the time, they treated him like a visitor from Mars.
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Counseling Skills Toolkit
Maybe you’ll find an idea or two that you can put to use doing what you do best: Getting the suffering alcoholic or drug addict safely through that doorway to lifetime recovery.
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Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders: Step Ten
Many of us have deliberately set the bar too high to encourage ourselves to jump. Obviously, we don’t always reach it.
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Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders: Steps 8 & 9
The point is to foresee predictable traps and make changes to reduce your vulnerability to slips – defined as an unplanned use of drugs or alcohol that results from a weakness or flaw in your program of recovery.
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