August 2007 Vol.8, No.4
Confrontation in Addiction Treatment
The use of confrontational strategies in individual, group and family substance abuse counseling emerged through a confluence of cultural factors in U.S. history, pre-dating the development of methods for reliably evaluating the effects of such tr...
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Chronic Pain, Opioids and Addiction: Challenges and Controversies
Approximately 50 million Americans — one in six people — suffer from chronic pain. Furthermore, 25 percent of them experienced pain that lasted through the day in the previous month; and 10 percent experienced the same pain for one yea...
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Untangling the Web: Sexual Addiction in the Internet Age
Once considered fodder for daytime talk shows and grocery line literature, today sexual addiction is increasingly acknowledged by psychotherapists and the general public as a legitimate neuro-psychobiological disorder, with specific assessment cri...
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Family - Focused Interventions
An intervention is an act of redesigning the power paradigm by defining the terms for moving forward; outlining livable, manageable boundaries; and using every bit of the leverage at hand to put an end to the addiction-related chaos.
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Columns
From the Editor August 2007 From the Editor August 2007
Dear Readers,

The lazy days of summer are finally here — maybe not so lazy for some of us. At Counselor Magazine, we continue to grow and evolve to serve the needs of addiction counselors everywhere.

It is with great pleasure that I ann...
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The Supervisor The Supervisor's Role with Compassion Fatigue
One of the most requested topics for me to present on these days is care of the caregiver — how to overcome compassion fatigue. The topics of clinical supervision and compassion fatigue are related, as the supervisor plays a critical, suppor...
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From Doing to Being From Doing to Being
As an addiction professional, you are aware that many, if not most, clients with alcohol and/or drug dependency also are heavily caught up in obsessive-compulsive tendencies.

This column addresses this issue, from the perspective of enhancing o...
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Internet Sexual Addiction Internet Sexual Addiction
This intake checklist is a screening device designed to be administered in a written form to clients awaiting their first interview. Alternately, it can be administered verbally during the initial interview. Although no cut-off scores have been sp...
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Treatment Variables Than Can Add or Detract from Outcome Treatment Variables Than Can Add or Detract from Outcome
Research from two articles that address the matching hypothesis (i.e., therapists should match their interventions and strategies to a particular client) provide information that could help clinicians obtain better treatment outcomes.

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More on Defining Alcoholism More on Defining Alcoholism
For several months, this column focused on the difficulties experienced at Wikipedia with respect to the public entry there on alcoholism. I spoke of the debates among participants and contributors to Wikipedia regarding not only content of the en...
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Why the Paperless Society Isn Why the Paperless Society Isn't Realistic
In the future, people will use less paper, as computers with their electronic documents become more commonplace — at least, that’s what the experts used to say.

The exact opposite has happened. A 2004 study at the University of Cali...
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Cinema's Golden Age of Heroin: The Glorification of the Junkie
Reflected in 1950s pulp fiction, heroin’s golden age navigated the dark alleyways of opiate abuse through a strange collection of motion pictures, magazine articles and books.

Nelson Algren’s 1949 novel, The Man With The Golden Arm,...
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