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THE TALKING ROUTE TO RECOVERY

Time to consolidate the lessons of row 4 of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix, all about therapies in which human interaction is intended to be the main active ingredient - psychosocial or ‘talking’ therapies, the mainstay of alcohol dependence treatment. Via key studies, reviews and guidance, the row walks you through what we know, from the therapies themselves to the influence of practitioners, management, organisational context, and their place in the surrounding treatment system.

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https://findings.org.uk...

The Effectiveness Bank features a collection of 45 hot topics – essays written by Drug and Alcohol Findings explaining the background and evidence relating to topics which sometimes prompt heated debate.

They are a popular way to get up to speed on the issues which matter in drug and alcohol policy and practice in Britain, and often too internationally. 

In this collection, the Effectiveness Bank team have produced 5 essays examining alcohol-related harm and alcohol interventions.

1. The politics and science of alcohol-related harm
2. Should dependent drinkers always try for abstinence?
3. Contr...

The focus in this webinar is the links between alcohol and cancer and the forthcoming Europe Beating Cancer Plan.

ORGANISATIONAL CLIMATE UNDERLIES INNOVATION ADOPTION

Key studies on how treatment organisations affect implementation and effectiveness of psychosocial therapies. Starts with the contention from an influential research stable that “organizational climate underlies the entire process of innovation adoption,” and highlights the study which forcefully brought that home to US researchers. Then addresses three key issues:
- Is your service even ready to *attempt* to change?
- Change driven by money versus humanitarian mission; just as good for patients?
- The stultifying effect of high staff...

MANAGING THE TALKING ROUTE TO RECOVERY

Key studies on managing and supervising psychosocial treatments for problem drinking. Starts with an essay from two leading researchers into these treatments, “bravely questioning what it’s all been for” when routine implementation has proved elusive. Highlights the study which found “leaders ... have a cascading impact on their staff in ways other than through mandate”, then addresses two key issues:
- Workshop training has limited effects - so is ‘coaching’ the right model for producing good counsellors and therapists?
- Find out then reveal to the...

IS REFLECTIVE LISTENING ALL THAT’S NEEDED?

Just two alcohol treatment studies have tested Carl Rogers’ classic account of the “necessary and sufficient conditions” for effective therapy. Each stripped out motivational interviewing’s directive elements, leaving only ‘Rogerian’ empathic and reflective listening. Did the clients do just as well? If the iconoclastic Rogers who “doubted every authority including his own” had lived to find out, he might have felt his doubts only partly justified.

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