The Star Matrix © is an assessment system based on research and understanding that there is more than one path to dependency on mood altering substances and therefore more than one way to conceptualize the problem. There are multiple components that affect the most important question in all substance abuse disorders. That question is “why?”. [...]
Utilizing the Enneagram in Assessment Modeling The Enneagram may be a very old model for understanding the varieties of human personality development. Like all models it is not true, but it may point toward some truth. Personality measurement and resulting models are notoriously problematic and fraught with peril especially when used as a metric instrument [...]
The Star Matrix Assessment Update and 2019 Goal For the Intensive we have developed the Star Matrix model as an assessment tool. The Star Matrix takes the dualistic question “Am I an addict?” and asks for a much more nuanced evaluation of the problem. The one question becomes many: “Is there a genetic predisposition for [...]
At the Addiction Research Foundation, we conducted an online survey that was pushed through social media. We at the point where we started noticing that women and men attended self help meetings at a different rate wehad close to 1000 respondents. Of these respondents close to two thirds were women. While women were more likely to respond to an online survey they were less likely [...]
It’s easy to understand why it happened. For the first time, there seemed to be a solution for a seemingly hopeless condition (alcoholism). There were many of us whose lives were saved and there just wasn’t another plan that offered any real hope. Punishment and incarceration had not worked. At least with the 12-step [...]
% (percentage) Family 53.1 Spirituality 49.4 Friends 43.3 Exercise 30.6 Meditation 23.3 Nutrition 20.4 Leisure 20 Journaling 11.8 Religion 11.8 This Table illustrates the most commonly reported types of activity in order of frequency, with the top three being family, spirituality, and friends that people use to support their recovery outside of self help [...]
Recent Research Supports the Multi Modal Recovery Process (MMRP) The best recent news is that a much higher percentage of people with a substance use disorder get better than had been previously thought. People get better. It just doesn’t happen the way we thought. This interesting graph from research performed by the Addiction Research [...]
Inferential Analyses on Questions of Primary Interest The impetus for the following analyses was derived from ARF’s interest in capturing the recovery process of those who indicate some level of recovery, but who are not currently in treatment. Question 1. USE of COPING STRATEGIES. The initial question addressed below focused on attempting to capture behaviors [...]
Michael Naylor, M.ED, CCPC, CCS, LADC Faculty Member of the Enneagram Institute Michael Naylor is a Faculty Member of the Enneagram Institute and an Authorized Enneagram Teacher trained by Don Riso and Russ Hudson of the Enneagram Institute, the global leaders of Enneagram education. He has worked in the field of transformation and empowerment, and [...]
