Developing Peer Support for Adults Bereaved Through Substance Use

A Peer Support Scale for Adults Treated for Psychoactive Substance–Use Disorder: A Rasch Analysis

UNLABELLED The literature suggests that peer support is protective of relapse for adults treated for substance-use disorder. However, to our knowledge there is no standard measure of peer support. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to use Rasch analysis to assess a 13-item peer support scale used in a group of adults treated for primary psychoactive substance-abuse disorder. The partic...

Developing a Peer Learning Community through the Use of CMC

communication (CMC) to facilitate the construction of learning community. The formation of learning community, which involves students working together to solve ill-structured problems and putting applying knowledge and experience to heuristic teaching. "Peer Learning" broadly includes cooperative and collaborative learning, and which involves learners working together for achieving specific le...

Peer recovery support for individuals with substance use disorders: assessing the evidence.

In recent years, peer recovery support services have become an accepted part of the treatment of substance use disorders, providing a more extensive array of services than typically associated with mutual support groups. Peer providers may help consumers set recovery goals, develop a plan, and work toward and maintain recovery. In this literature review, the last in the Assessing the Evidence B...

Impulsivity, peer influence, and adolescent substance use

Developing the Guideline of Therapeutic Interventions for Street Children With Substance Use Disorders

Millions of children are left to survive on the streets around the world. Investigations on drug use disorders among street children reveal that they not only abuse all types of drugs higher than their peers who live at home or in shelters, but also they abuse more harmful drugs such as injection drugs or methamphetamines. This guideline provides a comprehensive approach to the treatment and ma...