Addictions Counselors' Credibility: The Impact of Interactional Style, Recovery Status, and Nonverbal Behavior

Toriello, Paul J.; Strohmer, Douglas C.

doi:10.1002/j.2161-1874.2004.tb00192.x

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“…The one interview based qualitative study reports on the challenges faced by recovering counsellors' dilemmas, as they maintain dual relationships, by virtue of being an ex-addict and coming in contact with clients that the counsellor is familiar with either through former using days, or from attending 12-step meetings [29]. The other three European survey based studies examine the influence of relating recovery status to the counsellor's sensitivity to ethical dilemmas [30], the impact of addiction counsellor's interactional style [31] and the effectiveness of former alcoholics as association workers in specialized addiction medicine structures [32].…”

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confidence: 99%

Addiction Counselors in Recovery: Perceived Barriers in the Workplace

Doukas¹,

Cullen²

2011

J Addict Res Ther

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Addiction Counselors in Recovery: Perceived Barriers in the Workplace

Doukas¹,

Cullen²

2011

J Addict Res Ther

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“…He quotes one author English (1987) who "found that clients' perceived addiction counsellors with a history from addiction as more expert, attractive and trustworthy" (p. 46) however (Toriello, 2004) found no effect. Thombs and Osborn however made the point that "recovering addiction counsellors did not endorse the CI approach significantly more often than the MI approach" (p. 46), the author considers this surprising given the number of recovering addicts in the field in the field.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the learning of professionalisation for the addiction field there are readily accessible vocabularies that construct and perpetuate a caricatured stereotypical view of the 12 step practioners. For example, they are constructed as being more inherently confrontational than motivational, despite evidence that this is more of a caricature (Toriello, 2004). Newer strength based practices are privileged and welcomed into the new vocabulary yet they are based less on old Freudian and Christian cathartic ideas that release subjectivity (the truth shall set you free) but more on the production of subjectivities conducive to a neo-liberal environment.…”

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confidence: 99%

From Second Chance Learners and Second-Class Citizens to Competent Addiction Practitioners

Carton¹

2018

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The idea that clinicians who are in recovery from addiction or substance abuse working as addiction practitioners seems deeply counter-intuitive. Compounding this is the problem that many have incurred criminal records, so the idea seems, at best nonsensical. Yet the cold hard essentialisms of professionalization and medicine gives way at times to the sophistry and serendipity of empiricism. These former sufferers know what they are talking about. The result is that there is an extremely high success rate in securing employment at practitioner, supervisor and management level as well as popularity with clients, due to them having a high affinity with lay experiences. This is an exploratory sociological article intended to raise some issues that present with the employment and training of recovering people as addiction practitioners. The tentative conclusions are that counsellors in recovery have a sophisticated awareness of the idiosyncrasies of the addiction field. However, of much more impact is the issue that they face challenges, related to matters of professionalization, stigma and the associated ongoing gentrification of the addiction field. There is a need for further research and emerging themes given the changing and reconfiguring nature of the health field and the wider neo-liberal political arena. They also possess a resilient and strength based wisdom not located in the over accessible neo-liberal vocabulary around these precepts but have experiences of the encounter with the Gethsemane understanding of deficit and purgatory; thereby the right to take back the stolen neo-liberal appropriation of resilience. They also importantly have access to alternative proven yet marginalised discourses that have stood the test of time.

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“…Counselors of this caliber would be outstanding role models as recovery coaches in communities in and of recovery. Modern research continues to identify the strengths of CIRs in terms of equal ability with other counselors to promote credibility with clients and of the superior credibility in their familiarity of 12-Step programs (Dennis, Roland, & Loneck, 2013;Toriello & Stohmer, 2004). These qualities would enhance the effectiveness of CIRs as community coaches.…”

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confidence: 99%