(33) noted that parenting interventions focusing on parent– child attachment may be more effective than those focusing on skill development when it comes to fostering parenting improvements for parents who are substance-involved. Certainly, the complex histories of parents who are substance-...
“Given thataddictionis typically a long-term condition marked by relapse, individuals may need to try more than one approach to treatment, or a combination of treatments to facilitate successful recovery. Medication treatment in combination with behavioral interventions can be very effective,” Mooney ...
"Quit rateswith treatment are low"; however, most successful interventions for chronic disorders are the result of a series of treatments, not just one treatment. "Medication is effective onlywhen accompanied by psychosocial therapy" is a tenet of treatment for traditional drugabuse; however, ...
The latter approach may hold for drug addicts, persons with depression, and alcoholics who are all perceived as having less capacity to harm others compared to psychopaths. Still, although these groups are not seen as endangering other people’s physical safety, they are still seen as ...
Watts confuses self help groups with professionally conducted group interventions. For example, in Spiegel et al's study, groups were run by a psychiatrist or a social worker with a therapist and included weekly sessions with hypnosis. This approach is vastly different from that typically seen in...
I think people who don’t drink coffee are worse than smokers and alcoholics and must be stripped of health insurance for damaging themselves and society by their sabotage acts of NOT drinking coffee. Should apply to children also, including toddlers and babies. Science has spoken!
Although no longitudinal studies to date have examined the efficacy of MM, there are positive outcome data for similar cognitive and brief behavioral interventions delivered by health care professionals. Critics of MM claim the organization feeds denial among dependent drinkers and thereby delays ...