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Charter (v1.1) of the AOD-Collaborative Therapies List

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Purpose:

1. utilization of clients' existing resources and motivations;
2. use of a cooperative/collaborative stance in negotiating treatment goals and tasks; and
3. the presumption that individuals are able to make significant, lasting changes in substance use patterns.

Commonly-used labels for some of these approaches include narrative, solution-focused, cognitive-behavioral, motivational-enhancement, reality-therapy, strategic, & Ericksonian therapies. Discussion of other approaches, consistent with these common features, is welcomed.

[1] It seems useful to view behavior patterns such as "sexual addiction", "compulsive gambling", "stress eating" as having behaviors, feelings and cognitions in common with patterns of problematic substance use. As such, discussion regarding treatment of these difficulties fits within the scope of this list. Hopefully, the similarities will extend to commonalities among effective treatments as well.

On-topic discussions might include

• questions and answers regarding application of these treatment approaches in various settings, including MH & dual-dx clients
• case consultations (be sure to omit or distort information which could be used by others to identify particular clients)
• clarifying similarities and/or differences between views of these approaches
• discussing strategies for working effectively with staff and clients who are strongly committed to a disease-model orientation
• sharing information about workshops and other sources of useful ideas related to the above topics

Anti-purpose:

• debates re: the validity of the philosophical foundations of these or other approaches;
• arguing the existence or non-existence of "addiction", "disease", "therapy", "mental illness", etc. etc...
• discussions of how to properly apply "traditional" treatment of substance abuse (Minnesota model; 12-step based treatments)
• AA advocacy or AA bashing
• giving or receiving advice on how to deal with one's own (relative's, co-worker's, friend's) substance use difficulties
• frequent or long messages promoting something you are selling

Moderation Style: Moderate.

The list-owner will comment privately or to the list as needed if there are persistent threads or repeated postings that are WAY off-topic. Incivility, personal attacks, and posting blatant flame-bait will also be strongly discouraged.

Spam-prevention measures are in place to keep out unsolicited commercial email, and to reduce risk of subscriber address-harvesting by spammers. It may become necessary to set up auto-moderation of posts to more thoroughly accomplish these objectives; if this occurs, an announcement will be made on the list.

Posting guidelines:

• Please post messages with a descriptive Subject: heading. Retain the Subject: re: oldtopic, if your message is continuing the currently identified thread, or select a new Subject: heading if the current discussion (or response) has drifted significantly from the original.
• When replying to other posts, please quote or include only as much of the previous article as is necessary to establish context of your statements. Modern mailreaders have the facility for easily trimming extra information.
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• Feel free to share pointers to workshops and other commercial or non-commercial sources of information and ideas, including your own. If you have created or published something you think would be useful to other list participants, mention it in the context of relevant discussions.
• Persons who want to publicize a therapy- or substance-abuse -related product, not directly related to a current discussion thread, may post a _brief_ monthly message giving a website URL, or requesting inquiries via private email. On the other hand, you can accomplish the same thing within the confines of a 4-line signature block, every time you post.
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Regards, Richard Ebling, LCSW (current listowner of aod-collab)

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