Therapeutic Alliance Vs Group Therapy

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There are many roles or hat that an addiction counselor will need to wear in order to be successful in helping a client succeed in leading a sober life. From the start of meeting the patient or client the counselor is already working to determine the best approach and needs that will have to be addressed for them. This can range from the seeming simplest things of eligibility for treatment to crisis intervention for the immediate time. With all of this the counselor is also having to listen without passing judgment and forming a therapeutic alliance. “The fundamental principle of the therapeutic alliance is listening to the ATOD individual without passing judgment verbally or nonverbally. The relationship is the variable for predicting client response and the counseling outcome. Duff and Bedi (2010) concluded that validation was an important part of the therapeutic alliance; that nonverbal communication and positive regard were both effective toward enhancing an individual’s self-efficacy and bringing about a positive outcome.” (P. Stevens, R. Smith 2013)
While there are different approaches to how to treat a client, each one is based more of the need and level of the substance abuse the client has. There is individual counseling, group counseling, out patent treatment and residential treatment just to
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They will be able to have comradery, and feedback on how to better themselves. “In group therapy, a person is more likely to be both challenged and supported by peers who are also going through drug rehab. Twelve-step programs like Narcotics Anonymous are the most well-known group therapy organizations.” (WebMD 2015) While the twelve-step program is the most famous of the group therapy programs, it is not the only one. Many group therapy programs are similar but also have their own approaches within the individual facility that they are performed