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REVIEW 2011 HTM file
Adapting psychotherapy to the individual patient: Preferences
Meta-analytic review commissioned by a US task force concludes that psychotherapy patients (including those treated for substance use problems) stay longer and do better if they get the type of therapy, type of therapist and type of therapeutic style they prefer.
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
A new paradigm for long-term recovery
On the basis of three innovative US programmes for offenders or doctors with substance use problems, this analysis concludes that many seriously dependent individuals stop using if non-use is enforced through intensive monitoring and swift, certain but not necessarily severe consequences.
REVIEW 2011 HTM file
Integrated substance abuse and child welfare services for women: a progress review
This US-focused review calls for parents with substance use problems in the child welfare system to receive integrated services which comprehensively assess health and social problems and systematically match needs to problems in the context of a positive client-provider relationship.
ABSTRACT 2011 HTM file
Guidance for the use of substitute prescribing in the treatment of opioid dependence in primary care
Evidence-based guidance for British GPs on how to withdraw heroin and other opioid addicts from opiate-type drugs or to maintain them by long-term prescribing of legal substitutes, with a focus on the use methadone and buprenorphine, the main medications used for these purposes in the UK.
REVIEW 2011 HTM file
Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: Goal consensus and collaboration
This meta-analytic review commissioned by the American Psychological Association finds that outcomes improve the more clients and therapists agree on goals and methods and form collaborative working relationships to implement those agreements. The findings support deep patient involvement in deciding treatment goals and methods.
REVIEW 2011 HTM file
Evidence-based psychotherapy relationships: Cohesion in group therapy
This meta-analytic review commissioned by the American Psychological Association suggests that fostering cohesion between leaders and groups, and within groups, is often an important way to improve group therapy outcomes. Practice recommendations will help group leaders make the most of this common substance use treatment format.
STUDY 2011 HTM file
Shared decision-making: increases autonomy in substance-dependent patients
An innovative Dutch study tested a way of involving substance users as equals in decisions over issues addressed in their treatment. The effect was to give these typically submissive personalities a greater sense of control over their lives. Just as influential was the lead offered by the clinician's personality.
STUDY 2011 HTM file
Cluster randomised trial of the effectiveness of motivational interviewing for universal prevention
Compared to basic drug education, it should at least have moderated current use, but this attempt to deploy motivational interviewing as an across-the-board prevention strategy among college students in London neither did that, nor did it prevent non-users starting to use, negative findings which raise interesting questions.
STUDY 2011 HTM file
Evaluation of the Jobcentre Plus Intensive Activity trial for substance misusing customers
In three high drug use urban areas in England, treatment staff were placed in job centres to facilitate the referral of unemployed substance users in to treatment. It worked, but not well enough to recommend a national roll out.
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