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Star Matrix © Assessment System

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?”. [...]

By |2020-10-22T07:16:34+00:00August 18th, 2019|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Enneagram and Addiction Assessment

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 [...]

By |2020-10-22T07:16:34+00:00June 27th, 2019|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Report on 3 Year Study of Childcare for Self Help meetings

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 [...]

By |2020-10-22T07:16:35+00:00March 5th, 2019|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Survey results of activities outside of self help meetings that support recovery

  % (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)

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 Interes

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 [...]

October 14 – 15, 2017 Weekend Workshop with Micheal Naylor

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 [...]

By |2020-10-22T07:16:36+00:00June 21st, 2017|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Current Research being conducted by ARF

We wanted to update you on some of the current research that is happening at ARF. 1. Will providing childcare increase female attendance at Self help meetings. We are currently providing childcare at Refuge Recovery 7 pm meeting on Wednesday evenings. We are tracking to see if this will make a meeting friendlier for women [...]

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