As we turn the Rubik's Cube of addiction counseling once again, we see the fourth side is as important as the first three, as it deals with managing risk when dealing with a client. The first three sides provided color and structure for getting the client ready for counseling, intake, assessment, designing and developing a treatment plan, and implementing a recovery contract.

Counselors who work with clients who are undergoing alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment may occasionally lose their sense of direction or move in a direction that is not in sync with a client's readiness to change (DiClemente & Velasquez, 2002). The Paradigm Developmental Model of Treatment (PDMT) was designed by the first author to provide counselors with an overall framework to conceptualize what to do in AOD dependency treatment and when to do it (DiStefano & Hohman, in press).

Important experiences in the life of a people are expressed through the cultural media of language, music, literature, dance, and art. As part of a larger project focusing on the history of addiction and recovery in African American communities, the authors investigated how the experiences of addiction and recovery have been portrayed within African American music. Through the major Internet web sites specializing in musical lyrics, we identified 145 songs released between 1924 and 2006 that focused on alcohol and other drug (AOD) intoxication, addiction, or recovery. The review spanned the genres of blues, jazz, rock n' roll, rhythm and blues, rap and Gospel music. This article summarizes the findings of that review and explores implications for the treatment of African American clients. 

Healing Touch (HT) was first introduced in the 1980s by Janet Mentgen, RN, BSN, as an adjunct to traditional medicine. Over the past two decades, more than 50,000 people throughout the world have participated in various levels of the HT program. HT, an energy based therapeutic approach to healing, promotes self-healing by restoring balance and harmony in the human energy system. It respects all belief systems with each practitioner bringing her/his spiritual self to the patient receiving treatment.