The Integration of Treatment and Recovery: Special Considerations for Working with Children

• By: Crystal Taylor-Dietz, PsyD Molly Stubbs, LPC Devereux
• April 17th, 2022
• behavioral health, community, evidence-based treatment, health, home, mental health, purpose, recovery, researchers, Spring 2022 Issue, substance use, treatment
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Historically, the term “recovery” was commonly associated with substance use/addiction services and was popularized in the United States through Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) (Witkiewitz, K., et al., 2020). Beginning in 1939, AA published materials highlighting recovery as a personal journey toward...

Treatment Works! The Recipe to Recovery and Storytelling as Medicine

• By: Tom Wright, MD Rosecrance Health Network
• October 1st, 2018
• community support, mental health, purpose, recovery, stigma reduction, storytelling, substance use disorder, treatment
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When I was training to be a child psychiatrist many years ago, I had a mentor who was one of the most well-known and beloved child psychiatrists in Illinois: Jay Hirsch, MD. Jay had many sayings, quotes, and “clinical pearls” he taught all of us and I continue to use today. One of my favorites...