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What is Recovery?

An essay on the subject of “What is Recovery” raises, for me, the question of what is Addiction. Since everyone of us has an idea, our own idea, of what Addiction is, we'll also have our own answer to “What is Recovery?”

Since we don’t have agreement in our field on what Addiction is, I doubt that we can come up with an easy agreement on what recovery is. I could just tell you my definition of both but my goal is not for us to have a debate over which we can come to a resolution. My goal is that we all look at ourselves and how we got to this question. It may be, that after examining ourselves, we may choose to change the question we ask.

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December 2007 Vol.8, No.6
Chemical Dependency and the Family
One of the best questions I ever heard about the family and chemical dependency came from an adult daughter of an alcoholic. She asked, “Let me see if I understand this; my father is an alcoholic, and therefore, he has alcoholism, which they...
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Help Wanted: Managers to Lead Organizational Culture Change
Editor’s Note: This article inaugurates what will be a regular column for managers. The next issue will carry the first Management Corner column,“The Monk’s Offer.”

Right at the top of the risk factors confronted by the ...

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Can Recovering Drug Addicts Drink?
The essay briefly noted a period in the history of therapeutic communities when clients (mostly recovering heroin addicts) could earn “drinking privileges” during the later stages of their treatment. The number of resulting emails rega...
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Brief Interventions and Goal Setting
Brief interventions are a treatment modality that has been well studied in the clinical research setting. Among psychosocial treatments, brief interventions for hazardous drinking have the strongest support of efficacy (Miller & Willbourne, 2002)...
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One Size Does Not Fit All...
The Initial Direction Questionnaire (IDQ) is designed to assist in identifying a recovery program that is most similar to a client’s current belief system, the hypothesis being: if an instrument can assist in initially guiding a client to a rec...
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Get Smart, Get Published...
When I lecture to audiences of would-be authors, I begin by asking the participants if they would like to write a book that will ultimately appear on the New York Times Best Seller List. Nearly every hand in the room goes up. Next, I thoroughly disap...
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Columns
Letter from the Editor December 2007 Letter from the Editor December 2007
Dear Readers,

Before we say goodbye to the year 2007, we would like to thank all of the authors with whom we have worked this year, as well as members of Counselor Magazine’s editorial advisory board. It is your high-quality editorial con...

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Gatekeeping Functions Gatekeeping Functions
One of the primary goals of clinical supervision is to ensure quality care and to protect the welfare of the client. A part of this goal is the difficult task of gatekeeping, assessing who should and should not be a counselor.

We have an ethic...

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What Kind of Seeds Are We Planting? What Kind of Seeds Are We Planting?
Winter is rapidly approaching and the days are getting shorter. As I gaze out my window on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, a stone’s throw from the Canadian border, I find myself day-dreaming of the coming Spring and the warmer, sunnie...
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Emotional Freedom Techniques and Recovery Emotional Freedom Techniques and Recovery
Sally was sitting in front of me reluctantly rolling up her sleeve to show me the razor cuts she had made on her arm the night before. Although she had attended and actively participated in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting that night, she still cut...
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Information Portability Information Portability
It was 1995 and a man was walking around with a wood block in his shirt pocket. Occasionally he would take it out and fiddle with it as if he were checking appointments. Some might have thought him crazy, but he was not.

The man was Jeff Hawki...

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How Effective Are Dual Disorder Treatments? How Effective Are Dual Disorder Treatments?
Our field has been going at dual disorder problems for about 20 years now, and in this day and age, we are constantly calling for evidence-based treatment to support what we do. So, it seems about the right time to ask just how effective are the e...
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Overcoming Blocks to Spiritual Growth Overcoming Blocks to Spiritual Growth
Unlike religion, which is usually decided for us at birth, spirituality is a more personal way of living. It means different things to different people.
 
This article reveals what actual patients have said during treatment, and how we, as...

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