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

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.

Eldon Edmundson Jr., Dennis McCarty

Practice Improvement Collaboratives: An Overview; A Study on the Effectiveness of a Brief Motivational Enhancement Therapy Training; Substance Abuse Counseling: What Is Treatment as Usual?; Use of Opinion Leaders and Intensive Training to Implement Evidence-Based Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment in the Community; The Relationship Between Addictions Counselors' Clinical Orientations and Their Readiness to Change Counseling Techniques; Barriers to Implementation of an Evidence-Based Practice: The Example of Methadone Maintenance