BACKGROUND: Attention from researchers and health care workers to the quality of life
(QoL) of opiate users is growing, but most studies are quantitative, giving limited attention to …

Narrative approaches to the self suggest that forced career transitions disrupt individuals'
self-narratives and motivate their efforts to re-establish narrative coherence. To craft and …

Objectives: This study examines potential predictors (eg, attachment style, frequency of
therapeutic treatment sessions) of client-rated therapeutic alliance between the social …

Objectives. To characterize lifetime psychiatric diagnosis groups among methadone
maintenance treatment (MMT) patients and associations of diagnosis to long-term (up to 20 …

The relationship between vulnerable attachment style, psychopathology, drug abuse, and
retention in treatment among patients in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) was …

In this article, the authors consider breathless adults with advanced non-malignant lung
disease and their relationship with health objects. This issue is especially relevant now …

The paper describes a treatment pilot for gambling and compulsive addiction within an NHS
problem gambling clinic. The pilot study used a brief relational psychodynamic treatment …

Background: Methadone maintenance therapy is a treatment of choice for opiate addiction.
Understanding opiate dependents' experiences of patients' treatment is a key to continue the …

Introduction: Studies which used the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) among
methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) patients focused mostly on methodological …

Background & Aims: Methadone maintenance therapy is one of the treatment choices for
opiate users. Understanding opiate dependants' experiences of their treatment period is …