Therapist: Jody Herlow Company: Family Life Counseling Center, Mansfield, Ohio Date of Interview: September 27, 2011 the population they serve Jodi Herlow is a family therapist and behavioral specialist at Family Life Counseling Center, which is a multi-discipline service. Their practice services the general population and includes both those on public assistance, those with private insurance, and self-pay clients. Their services include a transitions program for adults 55 years and older who have gone

Interview with substance abuse counselor: Mr. Smith For my interview, I selected Mr. Smith (not his real name), a substance abuse counselor who approaches his practice from the point-of-view of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). CBT has become one of the most popular therapies for treating substance abuse. When I asked why, Mr. Smith replied: "because it works." Substance abuse has long been regarded as one of the most intractable problems in

Caregiver Interview as Related to Physical Therapy The objective of this study is to determine what types of psychosocial issues arise for individuals who render primary care to a PWD on a routine basis, and to determine how these caregivers cope with the stress of their responsibilities. This will involve an interview. The interview in this study is conducted with a woman who will be known in this study as Karen Hill,

Parent Interview This interview is conducted with the mother of a five-year-old patient who is suffering from Autism. Due to privacy reasons, the name of the patient has been completely changed. When your child's disability was initially suspected? Please discuss who brought it to parents attention. If it was the parent who first suspected it, what was the cause for the suspicion? The child's disability was initially noted when Jessica was three years

Brookwood Community is a community in Brookshire, Texas, which is organized around meeting the needs of special-needs adults. The campus consists of eight group homes, two staff homes, a residential Inn, health and dental clinics, greenhouses, a restaurant, a gift shop, and several support buildings. The community provides rehabilitation therapy to adults with disabilities, but also provides several other benefits. They have 110 resident adults and another 80 adults who

The book adds substance, extent, lucidity, and substantiation to the clinical and training processes, and will add energy to mainstreaming motivational advances to behavior change in health care. Primary care physicians and practitioners can augment their expert work and improve patient outcomes by learning about motivational interviewing. Motivational Interviewing can be defined as a client-centered, directive method for making better inherent motivation to change by investigating and resolving ambivalence. It