How do the Open, Blind, and Unknown of the Johari Window affect drug and alcohol use?

The Johari Window presents an interesting concept regarding us of the CJS as treatment providers, counselors, and therapists.

How does it apply to addressing changing limiting beliefs of staff and clients in treatment?

Regarding addiction and criminal thinking and conduct, “There will be no long-term behavior changes unless you change core permission-granting beliefs first.” Beck, Wanberg and Milkman.

The same applies to employees of the CJS

Consider the Johari Window as it pertains to us and helping clients change beliefs that keep them “stuck” or “blocked” as Marich and Dansiger explain.

The Open, Blind, Hidden, and Unknown areas can give us new perspectives about the importance of “Addressing permission-granting beliefs as soon as possible in treatment,” as Beck suggests. See the link below for a great graphic.

What is the impact of the “hidden” or “unknown” areas? We as practitioners need to know how to do this for our clients.

How soon in treatment should you address limiting beliefs? How would you do that in order to help clients get “unstuck” as soon as possible?

Otherwise, if nothing changes, nothing changes.

What are your thoughts about this? Your input is welcome. Please comment on your experiences with belief change methods. An exchange of ideas will be helpful for everyone.

Jenny Nurick did a nice job with her version of the Johari Window.

https://lnkd.in/gn6wt7Cw

I’m reaching out. DM me if you want more information.

We cannot blame our parents for everything we believe, think, do, or are. We do so much of this to ourselves with our irrational thinking and beliefs. We get “stuck.”

Contact me now if you want help getting “unstuck.”

Belief Eye Movement Therapy, BEMT, is the perfect tool to get to the solution of your problems quickly and efficiently.

Did you see the post on LinkedIn on or about June 17 with the landscape by the artist in the garage using only four basic colors and his body? Amazing!

He created imagery with the strengths, resources and skills he already has.

What a great message it is for us and our clients.

We, in the treatment field can all learn from him. I doubt he is writing grant applications every day, or telling donors we need more money.

He created a beautiful image before our eyes in minutes. We didn’t have to do anything but watch and learn from his example.

He doesn’t write voluminous reports and notes. He just creates.

Marich and Dansiger, talk about, “Concentrating on dotting all the i’s and crossing all the t’s.” They also talk about addressing “blocking beliefs” in treatment.

We all have limiting belie about something. How does that happen?

Albert Ellis stresses that beliefs we created hinder us in his RET and ABC-DE Theory. We do it to ourselves. We do it to our workplaces.

Judith S. Beck along with Wanberg and Milkman stress that, “We must change the permission-granting, core beliefs before there will be any long-term changes.

Yet, major treatment publications wait till page 150 out of 300 to address beliefs at any length. A major study guide waits till page 340, near the end of the text to address the importance of beliefs.

What’s in your beliefs change wallet?

Beck dedicates a whole chapter to imagery.

We can paint the picture of recovery for clients starting the first day and week. This image could make treatment more effective, quicker and cheaper.

This would be a great team-building and professional development program.

Creating sensory rapport with VAK, visual, auditory and kinesthetic senses can improve the treatment environment. See, hear and feel can also help create a beautiful image of recovery for the clients.

That’s how BEMT can help clients. Belief Eye Movement Therapy helps the clients dispute and replace limiting beliefs (ABC-DE Theory) while painting the recovery picture.
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Change the picture and you change the beliefs, thoughts, feelings and behaviors.

DM me if you want to have a conversation about this idea. Maybe do a podcast together.

The CBT map image is from “Belief Eye Movement Therapy” and “Drug Court Treatment: The Verdict.” Amazon.com

The goals of drug courts and treatment providers are to: 1. Reduce Recidivism, 2. Lower the Cost of Crime and Treatment, 3. Effect change.

Do drug courts and local treatment providers settle for short-term behavior changes (fake it till you make it) or do they seek long-term behavior changes?

Many drug courts use one to three years to measure results. Then they claim an 84% success rate.

The criminal justice system tells us 85% of released prisoners return to prison after 10 years. What’s really going on?

Trauma-informed experts, Marich and Dansiger (EMDR for Healing Addiction) tell us there is a high drop-out rate and there is a 40-60% relapse rate. Over 2/3 of the relapses occur early in the recovery process and 85% relapse or return to drug use within one year, (p.153) after treatment.

Why?

I’ll ask again. What is the role of desistence in your treatment protocols?

Answer: It does not play a role.

Why? Because you are not using it. You teach relapse prevention instead desistence and Transcendence. According to Marich, Dansiger and the Criminal Justice System, it is not working too well.

Wanberg, Milkman, and Beck tell us, “There will be no long-term behavior changes unless you change permission-granting core beliefs first.”

Teach what you want: Desistence from CTC and Transcendence from SUD or addiction.

As Albert Ellis would say, “Go then, and according to how thou hast believed, be it done unto you.” Then he gave us a couple tablets describing ABC-DE Theory.

If I could show you how this worked, would you be interested in seeing how my idea will help your organization? DM me for more information.

The CBT map image is from Belief Eye Movement Therapy by Stan Dokmanus. Amazon.com.

Drug Court Treatment: The Verdict is also at Amazon.com.