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Urban American Indian Practice Improvement Collaborative

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a short-term, focused approach to helping substance-dependent individuals become abstinent. The development of this therapy model for treatment draws extensively from the work of Alan Marlatt and others (Marlatt & Gordon, 1985; Chancy et al, 1978; Jaffe et al, 1998; Ito et al, 1984). The underlying assumption is that learning processes play an important role in the development and continuation of substance abuse. The same learning processes can be used to help individuals reduce their drug use. Briefly, CBT helps patients recognize, avoid and cope.

A number of important features make CBT promising as a treatment for drug abuse and dependence. CBT:

  • uses a brief, short-term approach that is well suited to resource capabilities of most treatment programs

  • has undergone extensive evaluation and has solid empirical support

  • is structured, goal oriented and focused on the immediate problems faced by patients trying to control their abuse

  • has a flexible, individualized approach that can be adapted to a wide range of patients

  • is compatible with a range of other treatments

  • uses a broad approach encompassing common tasks of successful substance abuse treatment

Training sessions were held on October 17 at the Native American Rehabilitation Association and on October 11 at the Seattle Indian Health Board. Cross-site, post-training booster sessions via teleconference will be held monthly from March through June of 2003.

For more information on the project, please call the Center for American Indian Health, Education and Research at OHSU at 503 494-8112.

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