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Substance Use Disorder Treatment Myths
Examples:
•Abstinence focus/ medication debates.
•Research Myths (“They-say” epistemology).
• Hitting a “Bottom” (consequences).
• Minnesota Model.
•Addictive Personality.
•Denial/ Co-Dependency.
• Development is arrested at onset of use.
Mental Health Treatment Myths
Examples:
• Professional distance.
• “50-minute hour.”
• Symptom Management.
• Psychopharmacology.
• Rigorous academic tradition.
•Easily manipulated by CD clients.
Co-Occurring Disorder Treatment Myths
Examples:
• Is irresponsible and either too cautious or
too permissive with clients.
• Must be versed in traditions of CD and Psych.
• Has a privileged position on Individualized
treatment and is “best of both worlds.”
• Over-arching system changes must occur in
order to provide sufficient care.
Practitioner Myths
• What examples are familiar?
• What is their lure?
• How do these myths effect
practice?
Practitioner Myths
• Do clients believe these myths?
•Do clients bring their own myths?
•How do these myths impact my
practice?
Barriers to Progress
We have created difficulty by attempts to
treat our defined clients in an “otherwise”
defined system.
Focus on system change has not led to
individual clinician belief changes as rapidly
as hoped.
Within dual diagnosis programs, separate
model myths permeate treatment
approaches on individual levels.
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