John Lakvold

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How would a therapist utilize Motivational Interviewing with a client with substance use problems when the therapist has to play dual roles?

Dual role- Therapist abiding by the spirit of MI at the same time being on a multi-disciplinary team that confrontation is used frequently to point out substance use.

11 February 2016 2,959 7 View

Is there any research on the cognitive and behavioral factors associated with insomnia for inpatients with bipolar disorder?

There was a wonderful article about schizophrenia and insomnia in the October 2015 Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease written by Chiu, Harvey, Sloan, Ree, Lin, Janca, and Waters.

07 January 2016 7,033 2 View

If one is doing co-occurring SUD (substance use disorder) and Psychiatric Ilnness Group, what modules would one do?

I have thought of 8 session Relapse Prevention module and Motivational Interviewing module already.

14 November 2015 7,870 3 View

Has anyone had experience with or knows about Cognitive Behavioural Integrated Treatment (C-BIT) for Severe Mental Health Illness?

I am looking for a treatment strategy to work with clients with co-occurring mental illness diagnoses.

24 February 2015 4,298 6 View

Working with clients with chronic psychotic thought disorders, what are other people's experiences with exposing clients to current events?

I have two alternative hypotheses. (1) The client improves when exposed to current events, because he or she faces the reality of those events. For example, the newspaper mentions the President...

14 February 2015 8,152 5 View