“Mike Panico, MS, LPC, director of the Seven Challenges adolescent program in Tucson, Arizona, said, “It’s never been the role of counselors to prescribe ‘behavior’ as ‘treatment’—except in drug treatment, where it’s common to tell people what to do. Ideally, the heart and soul of what a counselor does is to give people the motivation and skills to satisfy the needs they’re meeting through their drug use, in healthy ways. The ‘prescription’ needs to be taken out of it.” Studies show, too, that therapists don’t necessarily know what’s best for clients, and there’s no scientific way to predict which treatment will work best for any one person. A 2009 review of psychological studies published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology indicated that clients matched to their preferred treatment were about half as likely to drop out of treatment and had close to a 60 percent chance of showing greater improvement when compared with clients not given a choice. Dr. Miller said, “People do have hunches about what will work best for them. And those who choose from among options tend to ‘own’ what they’ve chosen and stay with it. So why would you not let clients choose? If[…]” Excerpt From: Anne M. Fletcher. “Inside Rehab.” iBooks. https://itunes.apple/us/book/inside-rehab/id540067140?mt=11
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:51:30 +0000
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