mutual aid

SMART recovery for youth: a small, exploratory qualitative study examining the potential of a mutual-aid, peer support addictive behaviour change program for young people

Scientific article

17 May 2023

Abstract Background SMART (Self-Management and Recovery Training) Recovery is a mutual-aid program informed by cognitive behaviour therapy and motivational interviewing that provides support for a range of addictive behaviours. SMART...

Current Scientific Evidence About Mutual Help Groups

29 March 2023

Online

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This presentation summarizes the current evidence about the effectiveness of mutual help groups and the mechanisms of action in these groups, including AA, SMART, LifeRing, and WFS. AA is comparably effective to well-implemented CBT. The evidence so far suggests that the other groups are comparably effective to AA. Further studies are in progress.

The Talking Route to Recovery. Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Row 4

Book

16 December 2020

View this message as a web page THE TALKING ROUTE TO RECOVERY Time to consolidate the lessons of row 4 of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix, all about therapies in which human interaction is intended to be the main active ingredient -...

England’s Health Care Gatekeeper Endorses Mutual Aid. Highlight from Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Cell E4

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9 December 2020

ENGLAND’S HEALTH CARE GATEKEEPER ENDORSES MUTUAL AID Taking a leap away from its comfort zone, England’s gatekeeper to the public provision of health and social care embraced non-professional and unregulated interventions in the form of...

Psychosocial therapies in the treatment system. Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix cell E4

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2 December 2020

PSYCHOSOCIAL THERAPIES IN THE TREATMENT SYSTEM Selected, explained and discussed - key studies and guidance on psychosocial therapies in local alcohol treatment systems. Focuses on guidance from NICE, England’s gatekeeper to the public...

Effectiveness Bank Analysis: The ‘Abstinent Alcoholic’

Scientific article

11 February 2020

‘Backfilled’ as a seminal study for the Alcohol Treatment Matrix, the classic description of the patient who has sustained abstinence after treatment but is still unhappy, unfulfilled and/or nervously hanging on - in other words, not really...

Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: Psychosocial Approaches in Drug Treatment Systems

Book

18 July 2018

Key studies on the role of psychosocial therapies in treatment systems. Seemingly the only feasible way to do more (recovery) with less (money), mutual aid is a major theme. Examine the evidence for whether systematically promoting...

Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: Psychosocial Treatment; Individuals, Not Programmes

Every treatment involves direct or indirect human interaction, but this cell is about interventions in which interaction is the main ingredient, from mutual support groups through to professionally delivered psychological programmes....

Does AA Really Help Drinkers Stop?

Scientific article

28 February 2017

12-step fellowships offer a way to reconcile shrunken resources with the desire to get more patients safely out of treatment. Accounting for the self-selection bias which has obscured AA’s impacts, this synthesis of US trials finds that...