Substance Abuse Counselors’ Recovery Status and Self-Schemas:Preliminary Implications for Empirically Supported Treatment Implementation
| Autor: | Elizabeth M. Nielson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Self-schema
substance abuse counselors Evidence-based practice Psychotherapist self-schema media_common.quotation_subject education 030508 substance abuse behavioral disciplines and activities recovery status Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine empirically-supported treatment health services administration mental disorders medicine 030212 general & internal medicine media_common Treatment implementation Addiction medicine.disease Viewpoints humanities Substance abuse Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Willingness to use addiction 0305 other medical science Psychology Clinical psychology Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Journal of drug and alcohol research |
| ISSN: | 2090-8342 2090-8334 |
| Popis: | Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to better understand the relationship between substance abuse counselors' personal recov- ery status, self-schemas, and willingness to use empirically supported treatments for substance use disorders. Methods. A phenomenological qualitative study enrolled 12 practicing substance abuse counselors. Results. Within this sample, recovering counselors tended to see those who suffer from addiction as qualitatively different from those who do not and hence themselves as similar to their patients, while nonrecover- ing counselors tended to see patients as experiencing a specific variety of the same basic human struggles everyone experiences, and hence also felt able to relate to their patients' struggles. Discussion. Since empirically supported treatments may fit more or less neatly within one or the other of these viewpoints, this finding suggests that coun- selors' recovery status and corresponding self-schemas may be related to counselor willingness to learn and practice specific treatments. |
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