Posted in Oxycontin Substance Abuse, Substance Abuse, Substance Abuse Counselor on Aug 23rd, 2011
People often refer to a substance abuse counselor as needing to be someone who can be trusted – and that it is a necessary condition of substance abuse recovery that the user be able to learn to trust – both others and himself. What does it mean to have trust, and to be trustworthy. Perhaps [...]
Posted in Oxycontin Substance Abuse, Substance Abuse, Substance Abuse Counselor on Aug 20th, 2011
Counseling families can be a challenge to the substance abuse counselor unless the ground rules of working successfully with families are both firmly understood and adhered to. It is all too easy for a counselor and parents to inadvertently collude to bring about results that appear to be harmonious and beneficial – the voice of [...]
Posted in Oxycontin Substance Abuse, Substance Abuse, Substance Abuse Counselor on Aug 11th, 2011
Substance abuse counselors try to open up in their client more flexible and extensive communication skills, as a means of healing impaired cognition and blocked emotions. They will often encounter, particularly where there are blockages to cognition and emotional experience, examples of reification. When we reify something, we make a complex event, person or idea [...]
Posted in Oxycontin Substance Abuse, Substance Abuse, Substance Abuse Counselor on Aug 5th, 2011
There are many occasions when it is appropriate for a substance abuse counselor to stand by and be supportive of the client and their point of view. It is understandable that a counselor wants to get results, see action, activity in the client. It can be the hardest thing to do, to sit on your [...]
