Implementing Evidence-Based Practices for Treatment of Alcohol And Drug Disorders

Herausgeber: Edmundson, Eldon; McCarty, Dennis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Implementing Evidence-Based Practices for Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Disorders" provides managers and clinicians with results from Practice Improvement Collaboratives (PIC) that demonstrate how substance abuse treatment can be improved by increasing the exchange of knowledge between community-based service providers and the research community. The book examines improvement collaboratives and mentoring strategies for adopting and using evidence-based practices. Contributors address how to determine the best treatment processes to serve clients, how to deal with the hurdles faced in preparing and training counsellors, and how to affect the needed changes in agency activities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 154mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9780789031525
• ISBN-10: 0789031523
• Artikelnr.: 21290450

Autorenporträt

Eldon Edmundson Jr., Dennis McCarty

Inhaltsangabe

Practice Improvement Collaboratives: An Overview; A Study on the
Effectiveness of a Brief Motivational Enhancement Therapy Training;
Substance Abuse Counseling: What Is Treatment as Usual?; Use of Opinion
Leaders and Intensive Training to Implement Evidence-Based Co-Occurring
Disorders Treatment in the Community; The Relationship Between Addictions
Counselors' Clinical Orientations and Their Readiness to Change Counseling
Techniques; Barriers to Implementation of an Evidence-Based Practice: The
Example of Methadone Maintenance