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Book
Published by / Citation
Drug and Alcohol Findings
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English

Keywords
alcohol
treatment
child protection
crime reduction
prison
probation
family
children
coerced treatment
therapeutic relationship
domestic violence
intimate partner violence
crime
worker-client relationship
client-worker relationship
United Kingdom
UK

The Trickier the Situation, the More the Worker Matters. Highlight from Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Cell B5

THE TRICKIER THE SITUATION, THE MORE THE WORKER MATTERS

Cell B5’s research-derived understandings of therapeutic work in a criminal justice or family protection context funnelled into the final section, tempting the formulation of a general rule: The greater the formal power a clinician/therapist/counsellor has over a patient’s life, the weaker their informal influence through therapy. Does it stand up to the ‘stress test’ of evidence, experience and logic?

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Drawn from cell B5 of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix, a workforce development resource mapping key research and guidance on alcohol brief interventions and treatment.

“I have found this resource incredibly useful. It is thought-provoking, the matrices are well laid out and offer easily accessible and comprehensive information.”
Jenny Willmott, Addictions Nurse (RGN), Glasgow Addiction Services, Scotland

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Sent by Drug and Alcohol Findings (https://findings.org.uk?s=ml&sf=mx) via a third party mailing list to alert you to site updates and recent UK-relevant evaluations and reviews of drug/alcohol interventions. Refresh of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix is funded by Alcohol Change UK (https://alcoholchange.org.uk). Findings is also supported by the Society for the Study of Addiction, and advised by the National Addiction Centre.