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Rehabilitation programs' success hard to measure.
The New York Times discussed the challenges of measuring the effectiveness of drug rehabilitation programs, focusing on how Oregon has tried to hold its programs accountable. The article documents the lack of hard evidence that programs produce, and why that is problematic for state and federal governments, which spend more than $15 billion on substance-abuse treatment services for approximately 4 million people. Even Alcoholics Anonymous, the best known of all the substance-abuse programs, does not publish data on its participants' success rates.
In 2003, Oregon mandated that evidence-based practices be implemented in all rehab programs that receive state funds. These practices could include prescribing drugs like naltrexone; motivational interviewing through which the client explains why he or she has a problem and why it is important to quit and set goals; psychotherapy techniques that teach clients to expect and tolerate their mood swings; and cognitive behavior ...
- New ideas and evidence-based practices: the case for inmate reentry.(Probation...
- Magazine article from: Corrections Today Evans, Donald G. June 1, 2005 700+ words
...new ideas with evidence-based practices was the theme of the American...new ideas with evidence-based practices is a powerful notion" that...service systems retain few rehabilitation programs; * New laws and public policies...
- Evaluating rehabilitation programs with the Solomon model.
- Newspaper article from: Corrections Compendium Withrow, Brian October 1, 2002 700+ words
Effective rehabilitation programs are becoming increasingly...effective and efficient rehabilitation programs, the current morass of...perception that prison rehabilitation programs do not work. This perception...
- Guidelines for Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs, 2d ed.
- Magazine article from: Physical Therapy Schuster, Nancy B. August 1, 1995 700+ words
...guidelines applying to cardiac rehabilitation programs that have been developed by the...inpatient and outpatient cardiac rehabilitation programs and for graded exercise testing...developing and existing cardiac rehabilitation programs will find this text useful as...
- Employment Outcome Expectancies: Consensus Among Consumers, Providers, and...
- Magazine article from: The Journal of Rehabilitation Thomas, Dale F. Menz, Fredrick E. Rosenthal, David A. July 1, 2001 700+ words
...outcomes of successful vocational rehabilitation programs. They also serve as a means of...success for community-based rehabilitation programs (CRPs). All parties having...primary goal of community-based rehabilitation programs and is often the standard of success...
- JWOD CRP's: social entrepreneurs and the business of rehabilitation....
- Magazine article from: American Rehabilitation Schulte, Linda Sullivan March 22, 1998 700+ words
...funny thing happened to community rehabilitation programs (CRP's) around the country...rehabilitation, JWOD's community rehabilitation programs have received countless prestigious...CRP (not unlike other community rehabilitation programs outside of the Javits-Wagner...
- Psychiatric Rehabilitation Programs: Putting Theory into Practice.
- Magazine article from: The Journal of Rehabilitation Moxley, David P. April 1, 1991 700+ words
...case studies taken directly from actual psychiatric rehabilitation programs illustrate how this model is implemented in action by demonstrating how psychiatric rehabilitation programs define vocational preparation or entry into the workforce...
- Efficacy of comprehensive rehabilitation programs and back school for patients...
- Magazine article from: Physical Therapy Di Fabio, Richard P. October 1, 1995 700+ words
Various rehabilitation programs have been developed to treat low back pain in addition...addressed the following questions: 1. Are comprehensive rehabilitation programs that include back school more effective than programs...
- What works? (criminal rehabilitation programs)(includes related article)
- Magazine article from: Corrections Today Immarigeon, Russ December 1, 1995 700+ words
...when it failed to examine firsthand the workings of correctional rehabilitation programs, and it abetted the political retrenchment of public funds from rehabilitation programs behind as well as beyond prison walls. It also propelled the...
- Guidelines for Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs (Second Edition).(Review)
- Magazine article from: Palaestra January 1, 1999 700+ words
...key resource provides updated guidelines for pulmonary rehabilitation programs (the first edition was reviewed in PALAESTRA, Summer...disease. Assistance is provided for existing pulmonary rehabilitation programs, as well as for program development, enhancement...
- Informed consumer choice in community rehabilitation programs.
- Magazine article from: Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin Hagen-Foley, Debra L. Rosenthal, David A. Thomas, Dale F. January 1, 2005 700+ words
...choice and participatory planning in community-based rehabilitation programs (CRPs) and the relationship between these elements...for program accountability increase the importance of rehabilitation programs demonstrating consumer satisfaction with services...
Source: HighBeam Research, Rehabilitation programs' success hard to measure.