05 Oct Treatment of Forensic Populations

Treatment of Forensic Populations 

SAMHSA link. Please use this link as an alternative:        www.samhsa.gov/data/program-evaluations

 Discussion #1: week 5: Please answer the following: 

Post a brief synopsis of the research article you selected. Include the type of drug abused and the treatment approach used. Then explain which treatment outcome model you would use to measure the success of the treatment approach and why. Be specific.

My research article I selected is:

Substance use disorders and mental illness and the avoidance of relapse cases among sex offenders

substance use disorders and mental illness

A Self-Regulation Model of Relapse Prevention

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

A brief synopsis of the research article you selected. Include the type of drug abused and the treatment approach used. Then explain which treatment outcome model you would use to measure the success of the treatment approach and why. Be specific.

Because the harm-reduction model was said to be the least studied of the three treatment outcome models, I felt inclined to see what research was available on this particular model. The research article I chose utilized the harm-reduction model to help in treating opioid use disorders. In this study conducted by Kapadia et al. did a qualitative study at a medical center in New York called Respectful, Equitable Access to Compassionate Healthcare (REACH) (2021). This medical center prescribes buprenorphine, a drug used to alleviate symptoms of narcotic dependence, to people addicted to opioids. They conducted interviews with leaders, staff, and stakeholders regarding the facility and regarding its substance use care. Participants discussed how the facility offers “individualized care” as a means to promote harm-reduction practices, as well as motivational and non-judgmental encouragement and informing patients about the negative repercussions of drug abuse (Kapadia et al., 2021). While the study suggests that further quantitative research was needed to strengthen the advocacy for this model, the participants noted that utilizing this model reduced negative stigmas surrounding people with substance use disorder and helped patients be aware of the facility’s philosophy.

Like the learning resource states, harm-reduction is very difficult to measure quantitatively; with this being more qualitative, it’s hard to say how other methods would have potentially yielded different results. A facility like this would have no trouble with the relapse model. One way to test the success of the harm-reduction model would be to compare relapse rates between the REACH center and another similar center in the area.

 the avoidance of relapse cases among sex offenders

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