The client–therapist relationship
 The client–therapist relationship

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The client–therapist relationship

At the heart of addiction treatment lies client–therapist relationships, across psychosocial therapies a stronger influence on how well clients do than the type of therapy. A collection starting with the analyses most recently added or updated, totalling today 81 documents.

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REVIEW 2011 HTM file
Adapting psychotherapy to the individual patient: Religion and spirituality

Meta-analytic review commissioned by a US task force concludes that psychotherapy patients who identify with the religious or spiritual orientation of a therapy improve more than if untreated or treated with exclusively secular therapies, but not more than if treated with otherwise equivalent established therapies.

REVIEW 2011 HTM file
Adapting psychotherapy to the individual patient: Expectations

Meta-analytic review commissioned by a US task force concludes that patients who enter psychotherapy with positive expectations about outcomes tend to actually have better outcomes, suggesting that therapists should regularly assess expectations and take steps to enhance them if appropriate.

STUDY 2011 HTM file
The Dedicated Drug Courts Pilot Evaluation Process Study

Staff and offender views and observations of the implementation and working of pilot courts in England and Wales dedicated to the sentencing of problem drug users, and in particular to their rehabilitation through court-supervised treatment.

REVIEW 2010 HTM file
Assessing user perceptions of staff training requirements in the substance use workforce: a review of the literature

Reviews the literature on what qualities and competences service users would like to see developed in the staff who counsel and treat them; above all it seems, a "positive and humanistic attitude" towards the user.

REVIEW ABSTRACT 2009 HTM file
Peer-based addiction recovery support: history, theory, practice, and scientific evaluation

This monograph is likely to become the handbook for the growing peer-based recovery movement in the UK. For administrators, the approaches it reviews offer a way to reconcile decreasing per-patient resources with a policy agenda now focused on reintegration and recovery.

STUDY 2009 HTM file
Relating counselor attributes to client engagement in England

The most wide-ranging investigation of the organisational health of British treatment services found clients engaged best when services fostered communication, participation and trust among staff, had a clear mission, but were open to new ideas and practices.

ABSTRACT 2008 HTM file
An intervention for treating alcohol dependence: relating elements of medical management to patient outcomes in primary care

In a programme intended to simulate primary care management of alcohol dependence, what made the difference to patients was how far the clinician maintained confident optimism and responded to the patient rather than strictly adhering to the treatment manual.

STUDY 2003 PDF file 190Kb
How to identify retention-enhancing alcohol counsellors

A Finnish study of problem drinkers offers a practical way to identify retention-enhancing therapists in advance which could be used in recruitment and training.

STUDY 2003 PDF file 190Kb
Counselling: style matters

While which therapy is delivered often makes little difference, how it is delivered in terms of dimensions such as directiveness and focus on feelings could be used to match patients to what for them is the best approach.

REVIEW 2004 PDF file 909Kb
The power of the welcoming reminder

Part 1 of the Manners Matter series. In seemingly mundane tasks like reminding patients of appointments and checking how they are doing after they leave, individualised and welcoming communications characterise retention-enhancing services.


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