Hooked 13: Approaches

The second of this weeks Hooked podcasts is about some of the formal approaches harm reduction workers use. As usual we give our opinions on both the good and bad aspects of these, and we finished by talking a bit about Mike Ashton's great Manners Matter.

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We discussed a few different types of therapy approach including:
Motivational Interviewing
Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Exposure and Response Prevention

I thought it may be an idea to post the whole of the miracle question:

"Suppose our meeting is over, you go home, do whatever you planned to do for the rest of the day. And then, some time in the evening, you get tired and go to sleep. And in the middle of the night, when you are fast asleep, a miracle happens and all the problems that brought you here today are solved just like that. But since the miracle happened over night nobody is telling you that the miracle happened. When you wake up the next morning, how are you going to start discovering that the miracle happened? ... What else are you going to notice? What else?"

I mentioned a motivational speaker and called him Tom Robbins, some listeners may be confused by this as Tom Robbins is the guy who wrote 'Even cowgirls get the blues' I of course meant Tony Robbins.

And finally we talked about Mike Ashton's amazing piece of work Manners Matter (please note that this link is a PDF file).