AA has become so infused in our society that it is practically synonymous with addiction recovery. Yet the evidence shows that AA has only a 5-10 percent success rate-hardly better than no treatment at all. Despite this, doctors, employers and judges regularly refer addicted people to treatment programs and rehab facilities based on the 12-step model.
Archive for June 2014
Distinguishing the roles of trait and state anxiety on the nature of anxiety-related attentional biases to threat using a free viewing eye movement paradigm
Do emotional stimuli interfere with two distinct components of inhibition?
On becoming textually active at Youthline, New Zealand
Supplanting the venom of litigation with alternative dispute resolution: the role of counsellors and guidance professionals
Impact of conflict in Syria on Syrian children at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan
The effectiveness of family involvement in early childhood programmes: perceptions of kindergarten principals and teachers
Quality of life in dementia: a systematically conducted narrative review of dementia-specific measurement scales
How to Use the New DSM-5 Somatic Symptom Disorder Diagnosis in Research and Practice: A Critical Evaluation and a Proposal for Modifications
SB 14-36 Mental Health in Scotland
The Safety of Women on College Campuses: Implications of Evolving Paradigms in Postsecondary Education
The association of ADHD symptoms to self-harm behaviours: a systematic PRISMA review
Depression, Stress, and Anhedonia: Toward a Synthesis and Integrated Model
Understanding and treating dissociative identity disorder: a relational approach
Client participation in mental health: shifting positions in decision-making
The relationship of outwardly directed aggression to suicidal ideation and suicide attempts across two high-risk samples.
Supported cognitive-behavioural self-help versus treatment-as-usual for depressed informal carers of stroke survivors (CEDArS): study protocol for a feasibility randomized controlled trial
Evidence-Based HIV/STD Prevention Intervention for Black Men Who Have Sex with Men
Burnout syndrome in psychotherapists: A comparative analysis of five nations.
The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind Twelve-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
Change in attachment insecurity is related to improved outcomes 1-year post group therapy in women with binge eating disorder.
UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Marta Vieira da Silva Plays for Gender Equality
Characteristics of mother−child conflict and child sex predicting resolution.
An exploratory study of associations between adult attachment, health service utilisation and health service costs
Queer conversations: improving access to, and quality of, mental health services for same-sex-attracted clients
Counseling About IUDs: A Mixed-Methods Analysis
Ambivalence in emotion-focused therapy for depression: The maintenance of problematically dominant self-narratives
Personality dimensions in persons symptomatically at risk of psychosis: pronounced but lacking a characteristic profile
Figure 1: People subject to the Mental Health Act at the end of the month [UK]
Women’s reactions to participating in dating violence research: A mixed methodological study.
PTSD: Policy issues.
Access to psychotherapy for primary care patients with anxiety disorders.
Gender differences in mortality and risk factors in a 13-year cohort study of street-recruited injecting drug users
Rural Homelessness in Canada & Alberta: A Review of the Literature
Back to basics: could behavioural therapy be a good treatment option for youth depression? A critical review
Critical Race Theory as a Decisional Framework for the Ethical Counseling of African American Clients
Ethics and International Discourse in Social Work: The Case of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Legislation
Relationships between meaning in life, social and achievement events, and positive and negative affect in daily life
Family economic strengthening and mental health functioning of caregivers for AIDS-affected children in rural Uganda
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Couples and Families
MIDSHIPS: Multicentre Intervention Designed for Self-Harm using Interpersonal Problem-Solving: protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility study
Observational Evidence and Strength of Evidence Domains: Case Examples — White Paper
SAMHSA’s 2014 National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day Launch Event