Counselor Magazine - Treatment Variables Than Can Add or Detract from Outcome

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The Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse will hold its 32nd Annual AMERSA National Conference on November 6-8, 2008, in Washington DC.

The meeting will reflect on AMERSA's interdisciplinary strengths and the commitment to disseminate the latest developments in substance abuse education, prevention, treatment and research that challenge all health care professionals.

Confirmed plenary sessions include:

Carlo DiClemente, PhD and Thaddeus Herzog, PhD in a Spicy Debate - Contemplating Change: The Pros and Cons of the Transtheoretical Model for Understanding Changes in Substance Use

John Rodolico, PhD, Terence Keane, PhD and Susan Storti, PhD, RN in a Plenary Panel Session on Combat Stress and Substance Abuse in the Wake of War

Randolph D. Muck, MEd, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, speaking on Adolescent/Emerging Adults

John Cunningham, PhD, Senior Scientist Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, speaking on the Internet and New Media as Tools to Recovery

Jerome Jaffe, MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine, will be the recipient of the distinguished John P. McGovern Award

Stephanie O'Malley, PhD, Director, Division of Substance Abuse Research, CMHC, will receive the prestigious Betty Ford Award honoring her valuable contributions to the substance abuse field.

Call for Abstracts now open. Submit abstracts and workshops online by May 15.

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Treatment Variables Than Can Add or Detract from Outcome

Columns - Research to Practice

Written by Michael Taleff, PhD, CSAS, MAC

Friday, 05 October 2007

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.
Matching may matter

Since Project MATCH (Project MATCH Research Group, 1997), a lot of folks thought the whole matching idea was dead, especially since Project MATCH did not lend any support to matching clients to particular treatments.

Reexamining the matching hypothesis, a survey conducted by Karno and Longabaugh (2007) retrospectively examined 137 clients. Instead of examining specific treatment effectiveness across a wide variety of clients, as Project MATCH did, they concentrated on the role of specific therapist behaviors that were matched, unmatched or mismatched to four types of client variables. The different variables consisted of:

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