In This Issue

• SAVVY – The Affordable Care Act, Healthcare Reform and the CASA Report (not good news)
• SKILLS & STUMP THE SHRINK- How to decide when to change the level of care?
• SOUL – Maria – inspiring hope, hard work and stick-to-it-iveness

Thank-you for joining us for the July edition of Tips and Topics (TNT). For all our readers in the Northern Hemisphere, hope you are having some summer fun. For our readers way further south….stay warm.

In This Issue

• SAVVY – How to move systems from programs to people
• SKILLS – Reframing “resistance” in systems change
• SOUL – Soothing the customer
• STUMP THE SHRINK- When to increase the level of care intensity

Welcome to the June edition of Tips and Topics (TNT) and to all the new subscribers. You can see nine years of back issues of TNT on The Change Companies’ website and download any of the previous editions.

In This Issue

• SAVVY – How to Develop a Therapeutic Alliance in less than 10 minutes
• SKILLS – Clinical vignettes to build the therapeutic relationship
• SOUL – My daughter sings the National Anthem and Memorial Day
• SHARING SOLUTIONS – Resources on TCC website; ChangeU; TNT book

Thank-you for joining us for the May edition of Tips and Topics (TNT).

In This Issue

• SAVVY – Readers comment on Spirituality and religion
• SKILLS – Relevant Lessons from the last ten years
• SOUL – Why do you do what you do – the hand in the bucket of water
• STUMP the SHRINK – How to use Stages of Change

This April edition of Tips and Topics (TNT) is the beginning of our tenth year. Welcome to all and the many new readers this month too.

In This Issue

• SAVVY -The neglected topic: Spirituality and religion
• SKILLS – Ask about spirituality and religion
• SOUL – A granddaughter and aging mother
• SHARING SOLUTIONS – New products on the ASAM Criteria

Welcome to the March edition of Tips and Topics (TNT), ending nine years of publication. Some of you have been readers from Day 1. Thank-you. Welcome to all the new subscribers this month.

In This Issue

• SAVVY – Comments and Commentary for and against “The Farm”
• SKILLS – Clinical Lessons from the Comments
• SOUL – Gone fishing
• SHARING SOLUTIONS – Webinar on ASAM Criteria

Thank-you for joining us for the February 2012 edition of Tips and Topics.

In This Issue

• SAVVY – What do you do when a severely mentally ill person keeps using substances?
• SKILLS – Clinical and systems questions, suggestions and solutions
• SOUL – Politics of personal destruction
• STUMP the SHRINK – Addiction relapse and confidentiality and the courts
• SHARING SOLUTIONS

Welcome to all the new subscribers who joined us this month. Thank you all for reading Tips and Topics.

In This Issue

• SAVVY -A new definition of Recovery from Mental and Substance Use Disorders
• SKILLS – Clinical and systems questions, suggestions and solutions
• SOUL – Politics of personal destruction
• SHARING SOLUTIONS-
  Implementing ASAM Criteria

Happy Holidays to all and best wishes for a healthy, successful and meaningful 2012!