Coerced Substance Abuse Counseling Revisited

Shearer, Robert A.

doi:10.1300/j076v30n03_08

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“…The inconsistent findings that have emerged in this literature may be due to the fact that outcome research in the area of substance abuse treatment has suffered from various methodological shortcomings (Howard & McCaughrin, 1996; Rotgers, 1992; Shearer, 2000). These include differences in outcome measures (e.g., measuring recidivism rates rather than client drinking levels, measuring employee job performance rather than level of substance use) and differences in comparison groups (e.g., comparing young, mandated, relatively healthy individuals with voluntary, older, chronic addicts).…”

Section: Effectiveness Of Mandated Treatmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Examination of Mandated Versus Voluntary Referral as a Determinant of Clinical Outcome

Snyder

Anderson²

2009

J Marital Family Therapy

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A literature review was undertaken to examine evidence for the effectiveness of psychotherapy with mandated clients. The primary question addressed was whether or not clients mandated to therapy, whether by court order or by order of their employers, show poorer outcomes than clients who enter therapy voluntarily. To this end, research on client resistance and motivational readiness to change was reviewed. This was followed by an examination of research on the effectiveness of mandated treatment. The question of the potential influence of relationship factors such as the therapeutic alliance was also addressed. The literature review was followed by suggestions for future research on the effectiveness of treatment for clients with mandated or voluntary referral status.

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Section: Effectiveness Of Mandated Treatmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Examination of Mandated Versus Voluntary Referral as a Determinant of Clinical Outcome

Snyder

Anderson²

2009

J Marital Family Therapy

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“…Where normally the service provider works for the client, coerced treatment changes the nature of that relationship by necessitating information sharing between the service provider and the referring agency (Day et al, 2004;Shearer, 2000Shearer, , 2003Wenzel, Longshore, Turner, & Ridgely, 2001). Providing treatment in this context has the potential to cause confusion for the provider over whom they are ultimately responsible to: the referring agent or the client?…”

Section: The Challenges Of Coerced Treatmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A number of authors have commented on the confusion of roles for practitioners treating coerced clients (Day, et al, 2004;Honea-Boles & Griffin, 2001;Ross, Polaschek, & Ward, 2008;Shearer, 2000Shearer, , 2003. Coerced drug treatment has made it necessary for service providers to perform social control tasks to monitor and report clients' compliance with and progress in treatment; this comes into conflict with the traditionally client-centered beliefs of those working in the "caring" professions (Burman, 2004).…”

Section: The Challenges Of Coerced Treatmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiating the Challenges of Coerced Treatment: An Exploratory Study of Community-Based Service Providers in Queensland, Australia

Thomas¹,

Bull²

2013

Contemporary Drug Problems

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The use of legal pressure to convince drug users to access treatment has become a popular drug-policy strategy in Australian and international jurisdictions. Providing drug treatment in this context necessitates partnerships between criminal justice agencies and drug treatment and support agencies, including community-based agencies. Drawing on data from qualitative interviews, this article explores the issues that coerced treatment presents for community-based service providers. We employ the analytics associated with Foucault's notion of governmentality to “make sense” of our research findings. We argue that these service providers negotiate the challenges of working in a criminal justice context by treating their clients as “informed choice-makers,” and by employing more liberal techniques of governance that rely on the possibility of freedom as well as the threat of constraint.

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“…Doesn't the correctional system exert its power and control over offenders, and too often punitively and inhumanely? Aren't offenders often coerced into participating in treatment, despite the questionable ethics of coerced counseling (see Shearer, 2000)? We are reminded of Foucault's (1977) brilliant socio-historical illustration of how power operates within the correctional institution to normalize, and how the institution uses the 'scientificity' of other social and behavioral disciplines to carry out this process.…”

Section: Power Thrustmentioning

confidence: 99%