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Effectiveness of Node-Link Mapping Enhanced Counseling for Opiate Addicts: A 12-Month Posttreatment Follow-up
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Drug abuse counseling was enhanced by node-link mapping, a visual representation technique, and evaluated in a posttreatment follow-up study, finding that among clients staying less than 6 months in treatment, those in the mapping group had fewer urine samples that tested positive for opiates at follow- up.Abstract:
Drug abuse counseling was enhanced by node-link mapping, a visual representation technique, and evaluated in a posttreatment follow-up study. Clients randomly assigned to receive mapping counseling reported less criminal activity 12 months after treatment than did clients in the standard counseling condition. It was also found that among clients staying less than 6 months in treatment, those in the mapping group had fewer urine samples that tested positive for opiates at follow-up. Thus, mapping-enhanced counseling may be especially beneficial for clients who leave treatment prematurely.read more
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TL;DR: In this paper, a multipurpose visual representation strategy, node-link mapping, was taught to randomly selected counselors in 3 methadone maintenance (MM) durg treatment programs, where counselors were trained to use mapping in their individual and group sessions as a communication, thinking and memory aid.
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Node-link mapping for counseling cocaine users in methadone treatment.
TL;DR: Analysis of client urines, participation, and counselor ratings of clients over a 6-month period during treatment indicated that the use of node-link mapping--a multipurpose visual representation strategy for communication--produced better results for both low and high cocaine-using opioid addicts in methadone maintenance than those treated without this enhancement.