First do no harm: Reducing disparities for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning populations in California. Retrieved from https://bisexual.org/bi_ pubs/first-do-no-harm-reducing-disparities-for-lesbian-gay-bisexualtransgender-queer-and-questioning-populations-in-california/ Norcross, J. C., & Wampold, B. E. (2011). Evidence-based therapy relationships: Research conclusions and clinical practices. Psychotherapy:

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a scale measuring attitudes towards prescription drug use for nonmedical reasons. Participants (N = 310) were recruited from a small northeastern college and completed the Prescription Drugs Attitudes Questionnaire (PDAQ), the College Alcohol Problems Scale (CAPS-R) and answered questions about current substance use. Principal components analysis of the PDAQ yielded a two-factor structure accounting for 58.2% of the total variance in attitudes toward prescription drugs where the factors represented items concerning Recreational and Achievement-Oriented attitudes. The PDAQ had good internal consistency (.94) and convergent validity with a measure of alcohol problems (r = .37), alcohol use (r = .44), and illicit drug use (r = .36). The PDAQ is a reliable and valid scale that can be used by researchers and clinicians to understand and prevent prescription drug abuse among youth.

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Dr. Peter A. D. Sherrard, associate professor of counselor education at the University of Florida is interviewed by Brian J. Mistler. The interview includes discussion of the concept of systems with an emphasis on cybernetic and ecosystemic perspectives; Dr. Sherrard's own life and experiences; the various influences on family therapy; the solution focused approach; feedback; creativity; Gestalt Therapy; metalogue; self-transcendence; pattern recognition; change; wholism; pragmatism; social construction; Zen meditation; attention; mystery; couples counseling; training groups; T-groups; behaviorism; religious conversion; theology; the Holy; serendipity; kidnapping; experts; existentialism; arbitrary punctuation; mind; culture; values; ethics; deafness; differentiation; negotiation; quantum theory; and the work of Gregory Bateson, Milton Erickson, Steve DeShazer, Carl Rogers, Paul Watzlawick, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Peter Berger, Dan Marino, Joe Montana, Nevitt Sandord, David Schnarch and Murray Bowen.

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