Value and Usefulness of a Collaborative Information Sharing Forum: Findings from the “Common Ground” Conference Evaluation Activities

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 849-863
Author(s):  
Natasha De Veauuse Brown
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Treatment Providers ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
The Common ◽  
Abuse Treatment ◽  
The Impact

To determine the value, usefulness, and impact of the “Common Ground, Common Language, Common Goals (CCC): Bringing Substance Abuse Practice and Research Together” conference, which was held April 2001 in Los Angeles, participants were surveyed regarding the effectiveness of the conference overall, the impact of the conference on attendees' collaborative behaviors, and the quality of the roundtable discussion sessions and other activities. Attendees of the two-day conference included substance abuse treatment providers, researchers, policy makers, and community representatives/activists. Based on evaluation findings, participants felt the event provided an appropriate venue for taking the first steps in establishing multidirectional lines of communication and candid knowledge exchange between these diverse stakeholders.

Living it or Learning It: Attitudes and Beliefs about Experience and Expertise in Treatment for the Dually Diagnosed

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 687-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Hamilton Brown ◽  
Christine E. Grella ◽  
Leslie Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Dually Diagnosed ◽  
Treatment Providers ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Abuse Treatment ◽  
Provision Of Care

This article examines mental health and substance abuse treatment providers' attitudes and beliefs regarding the relative values of academic knowledge and experiential knowledge. These two forms of “knowing” increasingly come into conflict as providers from the two service systems work together to provide services to individuals with co-occurring disorders. Data to address this issue were obtained from seven focus groups conducted with 48 substance abuse and mental health treatment providers and stakeholders in Los Angeles County. Findings suggest the tenuous role of experience-based knowledge within the emergent framework of dual diagnosis treatment and its emphasis on the professionalization of providers. The article raises concerns as to how differing, and often competing, treatment approaches affect the provision of care for this population and questions how these tensions will be resolved within efforts to increase collaboration between the two systems in providing services to dually diagnosed patients.

Meeting the Treatment Needs of Multiply Diagnosed Consumers

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 811-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa D. Steele ◽  
Elke Rechberger
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mental Health Disorder ◽  
Advisory Council ◽  
Treatment Needs ◽  
National Advisory Council ◽  
Common Goals

Recent research demonstrates that approximately 10 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with at least one co-occurring mental health disorder and substance abuse disorder in any given year (Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration National Advisory Council, 1997). Emerging awareness by clinicians, substance abuse counselors, and researchers has subsequently awakened the treatment community to the needs of consumers who are afflicted with co-occurring problems. One panel of the Los Angeles County-wide conference “Common Ground, Common Language, Common Goals: Bringing Substance Abuse Research and Practice Together” (held in April 2001) focused on the prevalence and treatment of co-occurring disorders. This article outlines the discussion and findings of this panel on the numerous treatment needs of consumers with multiple diagnoses and the converging and conflicting treatment models that have been developed for them.

Los Angeles County Evaluation System (LACES): Bringing Accountability to Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment through a Collaboration between Providers, Payers, and Researchers

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 865-879 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desirée Crèvecoeur ◽  
Beth Finnerty ◽  
Richard A. Rawson
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Substance Abuse Treatment ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Addiction Severity Index ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Abuse Treatment ◽  
The Impact

The design and early implementation stages of a large-scale, system-wide evaluation of Los Angeles County's substance abuse treatment system (Los Angeles County Evaluation System: An Outcomes Reporting Program, or LACES) will be examined. In the first stage of implementation, individuals entering treatment will provide a standardized data set using the Los Angeles County Participant Reporting System (LACPRS) admission forms and the Addiction Severity Index (ASI). At treatment program discharge, the LACPRS discharge form will be administered, and at one-year post admission the ASI will be re-administered to a stratified sample of 1,500 individuals from 31 “sentinel programs.” Additional information will be gathered on the services provided by Los Angeles County alcohol and other drug treatment/recovery programs. Data from LACES will provide the treatment providers feedback on the impact of treatment services and will create the foundation of an ongoing evaluation system for the County's substance abuse treatment clients and services.

Deconstructing the Concept of “Special Populations”

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 825-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Hegamin ◽  
Gayl M. Anglin ◽  
Mark Casanova
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Substance Abuse Treatment ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Special Populations ◽  
Treatment Needs ◽  
Homogeneous Groups ◽  
Client Population ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Abuse Treatment

As part of the April 2001 “Common Ground, Common Language, Common Goals: Bringing Substance Abuse Practice and Research Together” conference, a panel of treatment provider experts was assembled to discuss the unique treatment needs of “special populations.” The “Special Populations” panel was initially guided by the assumption that clients with unique needs should be considered as distinct homogeneous groups, outside the mainstream. However, as panel members revealed, the heterogeneity of the substance abuse treatment client population suggests that the concept of “special populations” may be inappropriate and that alternative approaches to conceptualizing diversity within the substance abuse treatment client population are needed. The present paper provides background on the use of term “special populations” in the substance abuse field and summarizes discussions that occurred during the “Special Populations” panel regarding the application of this concept to clients in substance abuse treatment.

A Distance Education Model for Training Substance Abuse Treatment Providers in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donnie W. Watson ◽  
Richard R. Rawson ◽  
Solomon Rataemane ◽  
Michael S. Shafer ◽  
Jeanne Obert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ◽  
Substance Abuse Treatment ◽  
Behavioral Therapy ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Treatment Providers ◽  
Education Model ◽  
Abuse Treatment

scholarly journals Protocol for a Mixed-Method Investigation of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Gambling Practices, Experiences and Marketing in the UK: The “Betting and Gaming COVID-19 Impact Study”

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (22) ◽  
pp. 8449
Author(s):  
Kate Hunt ◽  
Nathan Critchlow ◽  
Ashley Brown ◽  
Christopher Bunn ◽  
Fiona Dobbie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Treatment Providers ◽  
Sports Events ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented restrictions on people’s movements and interactions, as well as the cancellation of major sports events and social activities, directly altering the gambling landscape. There is urgent need to provide regulators, policy makers and treatment providers with evidence on the patterns and context of gambling during COVID-19 and its aftermath. This protocol describes a study addressing the following three questions: (1) How has COVID-19 changed gambling practices and the risk factors for, and experience of, gambling harms? (2) What is the effect of COVID-19 on gambling marketing? (3) How has COVID-19 changed high risk groups’ gambling experiences and practices? This mixed-method study focuses on two groups, namely young adults and sports bettors. In workpackage-1, we will extend an existing longitudinal survey of gambling in young adults (aged 16–24 years) (first wave conducted June–August 2019), adding COVID-19-related questions to the second wave (July–August 2020) and extending to a third wave in 2021; and undertake a survey of sports bettors in the UK (baseline n = 4000, ~July–August 2020), with follow-ups in ~October–November 2020 and ~February-March 2021. In workpackage-2, we will examine changes in expenditure on paid-for gambling advertising from January 2019 to July 2021 and undertake a mixed-method content analysis of a random sample of paid-for gambling advertising (n ~ 200) and social media marketing (n ~ 100) during the initial COVID-19 “lockdown”. Workpackage-3 will involve qualitative interviews with a purposive sample of (a) young adults (aged 18–24 years) and (b) sports bettors.

Effect of Common U.S. Ground Motion Selection Methods on the Structural Response of Steel Moment Frame Buildings

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 1611-1635
Author(s):  
Raul Uribe ◽  
Siamak Sattar ◽  
Matthew S. Speicher ◽  
Luis Ibarra
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Ground Motion ◽  
Seismic Performance ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Structural Response ◽  
Output Parameter ◽  
Selection Methods ◽  
Moment Frames ◽  
The Impact

This study quantifies the impact of two common ground motion (GM) selection methods, included in U.S. standards, on the seismic performance evaluation of steel special moment frames. The methods investigated are a “traditional” approach, herein referred to as the target maximum considered earthquake (TMCE) method, and a newer approach known as the conditional mean spectrum (CMS) method. The TMCE method selects GMs using the risk-based maximum considered earthquake (MCER) spectrum as the target spectrum, while the CMS method uses the CMS that anchors the MCER at multiple conditioning periods. Three special steel moment frames of 4, 8, and 16 stories are designed in accordance with ASCE/SEI 7-10, and their seismic performance is assessed with the nonlinear dynamic procedure prescribed in ASCE/SEI 41-13 using GMs selected and scaled in accordance with the aforementioned methods. A comparison of statistical parameters for the reduced beam sections and column hinges is conducted using the normalized demand-to-capacity ratio ( DCR), as the output parameter. The buildings are evaluated at the collapse prevention performance level for a far-field site located in Los Angeles, CA. In general, the CMS method results in lower DCRs of the frame components and smaller output parameter dispersion. In addition to the spectral shape, the demands are largely influenced by the spectral accelerations prescribed for each evaluated method. The consideration of collapse realizations is also documented as well as the existing and proposed statistical methods to account for these realizations. The study shows that the GM selection process can cause significant differences in structural response that may lead to different retrofitting decisions.

The Impact of 9/11 on New York City's Substance Abuse Treatment Programs

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blanche Frank ◽  
Tracey Dewart ◽  
James Schmeidler ◽  
Arlene Demirjian
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Substance Abuse Treatment ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Abuse Treatment ◽  
The Impact
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