According to Judith S. Beck, (Cognitive Behavior Theory), “…when it comes to addiction clients – you must change permission-granting beliefs as soon as possible…” Albert Ellis made the cognitive process clear to us with the ABC-DE Theory. Belief Eye Movement Therapy, is “The Difference that makes the Difference” for changing AOD/CTC beliefs quickly. Why wait? […]
How to Change Limiting Permission-Granting Beliefs of Addicts and Criminal Behavior Clients? https://lnkd.in/gZkktBma
My new book, Belief Eye Movement Therapy is now available at Amazon as an eBook. You’ll find many new change and treatment concepts. It’s $6.99. One new idea could save a life. It was written with the idea that anyone can help anyone. Change can occur in one treatment episode. That happened for me. You […]
Does Addiction Affect Your Work?
Addiction related problems caused by trauma and pain can wreak disaster on a brilliant legal career. They can follow you through life. End your career. Trauma is different for everyone who experiences it. It could be sexual, verbal or physical trauma. How the event was perceived is the critical point. Trauma is related to addiction […]
Drug Court use of this CBT map to Explain Relapse and Recidivism.
How can drug courts use this CBT image to show how to overcome limiting beliefs and values? The map image shows the process. See page 15 of Drug Court Treatment: The Verdict. Amazon.com. Two drug court goals are: 1. Reduce Recidivism, and 2. Reduce the cost of crime and treatment. In order to do this, […]
BEMT – Belief Eye Movement Therapy
There will be no long-term behavior changes unless limiting, hurtful, permission-granting beliefs are changed first. This is true for all of us who desire change in some area of our lives. Drug court and mandated clients are a good example to demonstrate. There will be no long-term behavior changes unless permission-granting, criminal thinking and conduct […]
Coach what?, How about Desistence? It’s the way to effective Substance Abuse Treatment.
We’ve all experienced the violent revolving door of the criminal justice system. Rape, robbery, arrest, due process, conviction, treatment prison, parole and right back in the system and prison. Where does coaching come in? Are you teaching desistence? It’s the criminal justice WPA annuity system. It’s like a Roth IRA distribution. It just keeps on […]
Addiction Professionals can encourage Adequate Defense, Investigation, and New Discovery.
Do you know what’s missing in treatment for court mandated clients? Something to do with geographic standard of care as it relates to goals of treatment. Maybe it’s not the clients’ fault when they violate the drug court contract. Question: What was done for the clients to reprogram the hard drive? What needs to be […]
Goals of Mandated Treatment.
There are two primary goals of mandated treatment programs such as drug court. They are: 1. Reduce Recidivism and 2. Lower the cost of crime and treatment. For the State of Hawaii, it costs $39,000.00-$40,000.00 per year to house drug offenders and others convicted of crime in the state. Many of the convicted offenders are […]
Belief Eye Movement Therapy™
Belief Eye Movement Therapy, BEMT is a Cognitive Behavior Therapy, CBT, intervention that can be performed and used by anyone. Of course, training is required first. It is ideal for treatment of substance use disorders, AOD use disorders. One does not need a master’s degree or PhD to do this work for others. It is […]
It’s Your Beliefs That Are in the Way
If you are having problems due to painful, limiting, shadow beliefs created by events of the past or present then BEMT, Belief Eye Movement Therapy could be for you. What is BEMT? Good question. It is a hand-eye movement method that kind of reshuffles or rebalances the brain and the way information has been stored. […]