منابع مشابه
A group motivational treatment for chemical dependency.
Patient "motivation" has been implicated as a critical component in addiction treatment outcomes. To date, treatments utilizing motivational elements have been conducted as individual interventions. We describe the development of a Group Motivational Intervention (GMI), a four-session, manual-driven group approach that employs key hypothesized motivational elements. These include the six motiva...
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• The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy conducted a survey and found that between 1988 and 1995, Americans spent over $57 billion on illegal drugs of abuse. • The Lewin Group for the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that in 1992, the estimated total economic cost of alcohol and drug abuse was $245.7 billion. This estimate included the cost for substance abuse treatment, c...
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Five basic models of chemical dependency and their treatment implications are described. The moral model, although disdained by most treatment professionals, actually finds expression in over half the steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. The learning model, albeit the center of the controlled drinking controversy, is also utilized by most abstinence-oriented programs. The disease model, which enjoys ...
متن کاملExamining mediators of change in traditional chemical dependency treatment.
OBJECTIVE Few studies have examined processes that mediate positive outcomes in the treatment of substance use disorders. The present study used a theory-driven approach to assess mechanisms hypothesized as curative by the traditional chemical dependency treatment approach. Several specific disease model processes such as accepting powerlessness over alcohol and two processes common to both the...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.94.8.1300