Anger and related emotions have been identified as triggers in substance use. Forgiveness therapy (FT) targets anger, anxiety, and depression as foci of treatment. Fourteen patients with substance dependence from a local residential treatment facility were randomly assigned to and completed either 12 approximately twice-weekly sessions of individual FT or 12 approximately twice-weekly sessions of an alternative individual treatment based on routine drug and alcohol therapy topics. Participants who completed FT had significantly more improvement in total and trait anger, depression, total and trait anxiety, self-esteem, forgiveness, and vulnerability to drug use than did the alternative treatment group. Most benefits of FT remained significant at 4-month follow-up. These results support FT as an efficacious newly developed model for residential drug rehabilitation.

Plongees dans un marche mondial, les organisations ne cessent de subir de profonds changements. Encore que la plupart de ces changements soient necessaires et souvent retard&, ils presentent comme inconvenient le risque de cofits eleves en ternie d'accroissement des depenses de sante, de pertes de productivite, de baisse de la satisfaction professionnelle et de chute du moral. Ces coDts peuvent &tre directement imputes a la dktresse qui frappe les salaries d'une organisation confrontee a des changement permanents. Cet article propose un modkle dynamique permettant d'aborder les articulations complexes entre le changement organisationnel et le stress subi par les individus. A partir de ce modkle, des interventions prenant en compte tous les aspects du problkme pourront &re c o n y e s pour aider les salarits a gerer le stress provoque par les mutations des organisations.Organisations in the global marketplace continue to experience tremendous change. Although most of these changes are necessary and long overdue, the downside includes the risk of huge costs in terms of increased health care expenses, lost productivity, lower levels of job satisfaction, and low morale. These costs may be directly attributed to the distress that is created when an Requests for reprints should be sent to

Plongees dans un marche mondial, les organisations ne cessent de subir de profonds changements. Encore que la plupart de ces changements soient necessaires et souvent retard&, ils presentent comme inconvenient le risque de cofits eleves en ternie d'accroissement des depenses de sante, de pertes de productivite, de baisse de la satisfaction professionnelle et de chute du moral. Ces coDts peuvent &tre directement imputes a la dktresse qui frappe les salaries d'une organisation confrontee a des changement permanents. Cet article propose un modkle dynamique permettant d'aborder les articulations complexes entre le changement organisationnel et le stress subi par les individus. A partir de ce modkle, des interventions prenant en compte tous les aspects du problkme pourront &re c o n y e s pour aider les salarits a gerer le stress provoque par les mutations des organisations.Organisations in the global marketplace continue to experience tremendous change. Although most of these changes are necessary and long overdue, the downside includes the risk of huge costs in terms of increased health care expenses, lost productivity, lower levels of job satisfaction, and low morale. These costs may be directly attributed to the distress that is created when an Requests for reprints should be sent to

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