Abstract
This article presents a model of case management with rural clients entering drug and alcohol treatment. As part of a larger treatment protocol called Structured Behavioral Outpatient Rural Therapy, behavioral contracting is combined with strengths perspective case management to help rural clients motivate themselves to engage and complete drug and alcohol treatment. This combined approach is designed to continually communicate and teach an 'A-B-C' cognitive-behavioral approach to problem-solving and change. While not a panacea for addressing the myriad problems facing clients with drug use problems, such an approach promises to improve 'treatment as usual' formats, which often ignore the formidable obstacles to human change experienced by rural clients and clinicians.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 293-304 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1999 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This article was developed with funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse Grant No. RO 10101. We thank Cynthia Brown, LCSW and Lucy Letton for their contributions.
Keywords
- Alcohol treatment
- Behavioral contracts
- Case management
- Cognitive-behavioral treatment
- Drug treatment
- Rural treatment
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychiatric Mental Health
- Medicine (miscellaneous)
- Clinical Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health
