Psychiatric severity and spirituality, helping, and participation in alcoholics anonymous during recoveryDouglas L Polcin
Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, San Francisco, California 94117, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 30:577-92. 2004
..The findings suggest that individuals with higher psychiatric severity may need assistance from their peers or professional service providers to develop a spiritual life, serve as a sponsor for others, or complete the steps of AA...
- Measuring confrontation during recovery from addiction
Douglas L Polcin
Haight Ashbury Free Clinics Inc, Research, Education and Training, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA
Subst Use Misuse 41:369-92. 2006
..Additional studies are necessary to establish validity, generalize results to more diverse populations, and assess confrontation at different time points during recovery...
- The case for high-dose motivational enhancement therapy
Douglas L Polcin
Haight Ashbury Free Clinics Research, Education, and Training, San Francisco, California 94117, USA
Subst Use Misuse 39:331-43. 2004
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- Probation officers' beliefs about the effectiveness of alcohol treatment
Douglas L Polcin
Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Research, Education and Training, San Francisco, California 94117, USA
J Psychoactive Drugs 36:279-83. 2004
..Strategies for facilitating accurate beliefs about the effectiveness of treatment and increasing self-efficacy among probation officers are reviewed...
- Factors associated with probation officers' use of criminal justice coercion to mandate alcohol treatment
Douglas L Polcin
Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc, San Francisco, California 94117, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 29:647-70. 2003
..Probation departments are encouraged to develop management styles that facilitate shared normative beliefs about assessing and managing alcohol problems among probationers...
- Integrating social model principles into broad-based treatment: results of a program evaluation
Douglas L Polcin
Ohlhoff Recovery Programs, 601 Steiner St, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 28:585-99. 2002
..Findings provide a rationale for larger, multi-site studies that assess the effectiveness of social model characteristics using multivariate techniques...
- Rethinking confrontation in alcohol and drug treatment: consideration of the clinical context
Douglas L Polcin
Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc, Department of Research, Education, and Training, San Francisco, California 94117, USA
Subst Use Misuse 38:165-84. 2003
..Confrontation from multiple sources requires more focus, including confrontation from treatment peers, family members, the workplace, the legal system, social welfare workers, and medical professionals...
- Relationship and institutional pressure to enter treatment: differences by demographics, problem severity, and motivation
Douglas L Polcin
Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:428-36. 2007
..g., criminal justice or welfare) or relationships (e.g., family or friends). Research has also shown that pressure can facilitate treatment entry. However, few studies have assessed how pressure from different sources varies...
- A brief scale for measuring helping activities in recovery: the brief helper therapy scale
Lee Ann Kaskutas
Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, California 94608, USA
Subst Use Misuse 42:1767-81. 2007
..Helping others is evident in the philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous, and is emphasized in formal treatment. However, helping among recovering alcoholics has not been studied, in part because of a lack of helping measures...
- Factor analysis of the Alcohol and Drug Confrontation Scale (ADCS)
Douglas L Polcin
Alcohol Research Group, Berkeley, CA 94608 1010, United States
Addict Behav 32:2274-80. 2007
..80) and (2) External Intensity (alpha=0.63). The two factors accounted for 58% of the variance. The ADCS offers a fresh and broader view of confrontation that can be reliably measured...
