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Promoting Self-Change From Addictive Behaviors - Practical Implications for Policy, Prevention, and Treatment

Promoting Self-Change From Addictive Behaviors - Practical Implications for Policy, Prevention, and Treatment

Harald Klingemann, Linda Carter-Sobell

 

Verlag Springer-Verlag, 2007

ISBN 9780387712871 , 260 Seiten

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Dedication

5

Acknowledgments

6

Foreword Considering the Unimaginable: Challenges to Accepting Self- Change or Natural Recovery from Addiction

7

References

11

Preface

12

References

15

Contents

16

Contributors

18

The Phenomenon of Self-Change: Overview and Key Issues

21

Introduction

21

The Respondents Speak

22

Is What We Call the Phenomenon Important?

23

Defining Treatment and How Little Is Too Much

24

Mixing Treated and Untreated Respondents

25

State-of-the-Art in Self-Change

26

Advantages of Survey and Other Methods for Studying the Process of Self- Change

27

Why Has Self-Change as an Area of Study Been So Long Overlooked or Ignored?

27

Nonabstinent Outcomes and Natural Recovery

28

What Can Be Gained by Studying the Process of Self- Change?

29

Barriers to Treatment or Help-Seeking for Racial/Ethnic Minorities and Women

31

Models of Change

33

Conflict Theory

33

Transtheoretical Model of Change

34

Crystallization of Discontent

35

Becoming an Ex

35

Major Findings from Self-Change Studies

36

Self-Change: A Major Pathway to Recovery

36

Can We Believe What They Tell Us?

36

Stability of Natural Recoveries

37

What Triggers Self-Change? Thinking about Changing

38

Maintaining Recoveries

39

Conclusions and Future Directions

39

References

40

Self-Change from Alcohol and Drug Abuse: Often- Cited Classics

51

The Setting

51

The “Pioneering Studies”

52

Subsequent Research on Self-Change

53

Studies of Drug Use and Drug Addiction

54

Studies of Alcoholism, Drinking Patterns, and Drinking Problems

60

Summing Up: Conclusions and Implications

73

References

74

Natural Recovery or Recovery without Treatment from Alcohol and Drug Problems as Seen from Survey Data

78

Early Drinking Survey Results

78

Specialized Survey Studies of Natural Recovery

79

Community Studies of Self-Change

81

Drug Users and Natural Recovery

82

Advantages of Survey and Other Methods for Studying Natural Recovery

83

Snowball, Media-Derived, and Convenience Samples in Self- Change Studies

84

Do Those Who Recover Naturally Have Fewer Problems Than Those Who Seek Treatment?

86

What Can We Conclude about Self-Change?

87

References

88

Remission without Formal Help: New Directions in Studies Using Survey Data

91

Methodological Issues

91

Sampling Methods

92

Definition of the Substance Use Problem

92

Definition of Treatment

93

Occurrence of Natural Remission in the General Population

93

Stability of Untreated Remission

94

Factors Supporting Remission

95

Media-Recruited or Other Nonrepresentative Samples

96

General Population Samples

98

Conclusion and Suggestions for Future Research

101

References

101

Natural Recovery from Alcohol and Drug Problems: A Methodological Review of the Literature from 1999 through 2005

104

Introduction

104

Method

105

Results

106

Discussion and Conclusions

112

References

115

Appendix Primary References

117

Secondary References

118

Self-Change in a Broader Context: Beyond Alcohol and Drugs

119

Self-Change: The Rule among Smokers

120

Epidemiology of Smoking and Quitting

120

Self-Quitting

121

Success in a Given Self-Quit Attempt

122

Reduction as Outcome

122

Reasons for Quitting

123

Predictors of Successful Self-Quitting

124

References

124

Natural Recovery from Problem Gambling

127

References

130

The Natural Course and Outcome of Eating Disorders and Obesity

133

References

138

Spontaneous Desistance from Crime

141

What Is to Stop Crime Spontaneously?

142

Correlates of Desistance and the Desistance Process

144

Maturation and Morality

145

Growing Aversion for Risk

146

Changes in Adult Life

146

Turning Points: Inside and Outside Views

147

Against All Odds

148

Family Violence and Question of Change without Treatment

148

Conclusion

150

References

150

Self-Change from Stuttering: An Overview

152

What Is Stuttering?

152

Natural Recovery during Early Childhood Stuttering

152

Treatment Approaches for Managing Stuttering After Childhood

153

The Phenomenon of Untreated Recovery after Childhood

154

Findings from Late Recovery Research Methodological Challenges

155

Mechanisms of Self-change

156

Are These Accounts of Self-Change Credible?

157

Outcomes of Self-Managed Late Recovery

157

Recent Findings and Future Directions

158

References

159

One Way to Leave Your Lover: The Role of Treatment in Changing Addictive Behaviors

163

Meaningful Explanations of Change in Addictive Behavior

163

Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover

164

Factors Influencing Route of Change

167

The Role of Treatment in Changing Addictive Behavior

170

Stepped-Care Approach

170

Multiple Functions of Treatment

171

Summary: Many Ways to Leave Your Lover

172

References

172

Promoting Self-Change: Taking the Treatment to the Community

175

Self–Change Approaches

176

Tailored Nontraditional Messages

178

A Community Mail Intervention: Background and Rationale

183

An Empirically Crafted Advertisement

184

PSC Study Results

186

What Triggered the Change Process?

186

Responding to Advertisements: A Critical Event in Promoting Self- Change

187

Public Health Implications of Community Interventions

189

Conclusion and Future Directions

191

References

191

Hostile and Favorable Societal Climates for Self- Change: Some Lessons for Policymakers

199

Introduction

199

Images of Alcohol and Drug Addiction in the General Population: Stigma, Social Support, and Change Optimism

200

Treatment Systems and the Acceptance of Treatment

203

Self-Change in the Global Village: Media Images and Health Information Management as Social Capital The Portrayal of Alcohol and Drug Users in the Media

206

Active Information Retrieval and Media Use as a Tool for Self- Change

208

Media Campaigns Setting the Stage for Change?

210

“ A Sober Look at Drugs”

211

“Handle With Care”

212

“Milestone”

213

Structural Prevention and Chances of Change: How Far Is It to the Next Pub and Where Am I Still Allowed to Smoke?

216

Motivation of Change and References to Society and Politics of Self- Change

220

References

221

Natural Recovery: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

225

Cross-Cultural Variation in Beliefs and Normative Behaviors

226

Cultural Types: Broadly Drawn

227

Specialist Cultures

228

Generalist Cultures

229

Ethnic Minorities and Mainstream Populations

230

Some Central Domains for Self-Change

233

Problem Definition and Trajectory

233

Time

236

Emotion

238

Identity

240

Expertise

242

Conclusion: Implications for Research and Clinical Practice

244

References

246

Self-Change Toolbox: Tools, Tips, Websites, and Other Informational Resources for Assessing and Promoting Self- Change

250

Introduction

250

Assessment Instruments to Promote Self-Change

250

Tools for Assessing Problem Severity or Adverse Consequences of Addictive Behaviors

251

Assessing Addictive Behaviors

252

Assessing High-Risk Triggers to Addictive Behaviors

253

Assessing Motivation and Readiness to Change

253

Addiction Self-Change Websites by Country North America

255

Great Britain

256

Austria, Germany, and Switzerland

258

Finland

261

France

261

Italy

261

Sweden

262

Mexico

262

Spain

262

Additional Addiction Self-Change Resources Available Online by Request

262

References

264

Index

267