The national standard for addiction counselors is to view substance abuse as a disease
(National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, 1996). Addiction is viewed …

Traditionally, mental health workers are taught that for effective treatment to occur, clients
must become involved of their own free will and be “motivated to change” through their own …

This thesis concerns involuntary treatment of alcoholism. Clients committed according to the
Swedish Act on Care of Addicts in Certain Cases were treated in the same residential …

It is puzzling that, although the imposition of treatment over patients' wishes has been an
integral part of the delivery of mental health care through the ages, coercion has not been …

Experience with numbers of drug addicts has shown them to be singularly unmotivated to
discontinue drug use. To develop motivation in the unmotivated, the treatment program …

BACKGROUND The defining behaviors in drug and substance abuse, those which we seek
to modify in treatment, involve the acquisition and ingestion of drugs. Drug use may be …

Coercion in the community: Issues for mature treatment systems Page 1 Coercion in
community-based mental health treatment refers to much more than just court-ordered treatment …

The concept of codependency has achieved a prominent place in the psychiatric,
psychological, and addiction literature in a remarkably short period of time. Although the …

The present investigation examined whether coercion, defined as punishrnent and negative
reinforcement, made a contribution to the effectiveness of offender treatment programs that …