Implementing Evidence-Based Practices for Treatment of Alcohol And Drug Disorders - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789031515 ISBN 13: 9780789031518

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

"Implementing Evidence-Based Practices for Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Disorders" provides managers and clinicians with results from Practice Improvement Collaboratives (PIC) that demonstrate how substance abuse treatment can be improved by increasing the exchange of knowledge between community-based service providers and the research community. The book examines improvement collaboratives and mentoring strategies for adopting and using evidence-based practices. Contributors address how to determine the best treatment processes to serve clients, how to deal with the hurdles faced in preparing and training counsellors, and how to affect the needed changes in agency activities. This unique professional resource responds to an Institute of Medicine report that found a substantial disconnect between research and practice in treatment for drug and alcohol dependence. Focusing on how to make the changes necessary to support the adoption and use of evidence-based practices, the book documents the activities of four sites to illustrate how investigators and treatment practitioners worked together to implement evidence-based practices. Contributors examine the development and early implementation of Practice Improvement Collaboratives, the investigator-provider-policymaker model, Motivational Enhancement Therapy, the use of Opinion Leaders in training, and targeted strategies that take into account the differences in clinician demographics and training. "Implementing Evidence-Based Practices for Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Disorders" is an essential tool for alcohol and drug counsellors, directors of alcohol and drug treatment clinics, and instructors in counsellor training and academic programs.

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Review

"AN EXCELLENT LOOK BACK—and look forward—at our nation's continuing evolution in the treatment of substance abuse disorders." -- Michael S. Shafer, PhD, Executive Director, Applied Behavioral Health Policy, University of Arizona

"Edmundson's mastery of education and training, and McCarty's established expertise in addiction science and practice are an unbeatable combination!" -- Roy M. Gabriel, PhD, Senior Researcher, RMC Research Corporation

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0789031515
• ISBN 13: 9780789031518
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Edmundson Jr. Eldon, McCarty Dennis