Group Drug Counseling for Cocaine Use Disorders

Treatment

DIAGNOSIS: Substance-Use Disorders

TREATMENT: Group Drug Counseling for Cocaine Use Disorders

BRIEF SUMMARY

Basic premise: The GDC treatment educates clients about important concepts in addiction recovery and provides a supportive group atmosphere in which members can ex- press feelings, discuss problems, and learn to draw strength from one another. GDC uses a psychoeducational format, but it also relies heavily on group support. The revised GDC treatment manual proposes a 3-month group program designed to educate clients about the important concepts in addiction recovery, strongly encourage participation in 12-step programs, incorporate relapse prevention techniques and provide a supportive group atmosphere in which members can express feelings, discuss problems and learn to draw strength from one another.

Crits-Christoph, P., Siqueland, L., Blaine, J., Frank, A., Luborsky, L., Onken, L. S., Muenz, L. R., Thase, M. E., Weiss, R. D., Gastfriend, D. R., Woody, G. E., Barber, J. P., Butler, S. F., Daley, D., Salloum, I., Bishop, S., Najavits, L. M., Lis, J., Mercer, D., Griffin, M. L., … Beck, A. T. (1999). Psychosocial treatments for cocaine dependence: National Institute on Drug Abuse Collaborative Cocaine Treatment Study. Archives of General Psychiatry, 56(6), 493–502. https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.56.6.493

Crits-Christoph, P., Gibbons, M. B., Ring-Kurtz, S., Gallop, R., & Present, J. (2009). A pilot study of community-friendly manual-guided drug counseling. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 37(1), 8–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2008.09.004

TREATMENT RESOURCES

TREATMENT MANUALS

Group drug counseling manual (Daley, et al., 1998)

Drug counseling for cocaine addiction: The collaborative cocaine treatment study model (Daley, et al., 2002)

Community-friendly group drug counseling manual (Mercer and Daley, 2004)

WORKBOOKS and WORKSHEETS

Training in cognitive, supportive-expressive, and drug counseling therapies for cocaine dependence (Crits-Cristoph, et al., 1998)

Group drug counseling: Participant recovery workbook (Daley, et al., 1998)

The adherence and competence scale for group addiction counseling for TCACS (Mercer, et al., 1994)

A group drug counseling approach to treat cocaine addiction (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2002)

Substance abuse treatment: Group therapy (SAMHSA, 2005/2015)

Group treatments for addiction (CEU Matrix, 2010; Daley and Douaihy, 2011)

Substance abuse treatment: Group therapy (SAMHSA, 2015)

Drug counseling for cocaine addiction: The collaborative cocaine treatment study model: Overview of group treatment supervision of counselors (Daley, 2002)

SUPPORTING STUDIES

Greenfield, S.F., Trucco, E.M., McHugh, R.K., Lincoln, M., & Gallop, R.J. (2007). The women’s recovery group study: a stage I trial of women-focused group therapy for substance use disorders versus mixed-gender group drug counseling. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 90(1), 39–47.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2007.02.009

Crits-Christoph, P., Siqueland, L., Blaine, J., Frank, A., Luborsky, L., Onken, L. S., Muenz, L., Thase, M. E., Weiss, R. D., Gastfriend, D. R., Woody, G., Barber, J. P., Butler, S. F., Daley, D., Bishop, S., Najavits, L. M., Lis, J., Mercer, D., Griffin, M. L., Moras, K., … Beck, A. T. (1997). The national institute on drug abuse collaborative cocaine treatment study. Rationale and methods. Archives of General Psychiatry, 54(8), 721–726.

https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1997.01830200053007

Crits-Christoph, P., Gallop, R., Gibbons, M. B., Sadicario, J. S., & Woody, G. (2013). Measuring outcome in the treatment of cocaine dependence. Journal of Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, 1(2), 108.

https://doi.org/10.4172/2329-6488.1000108