Orientation Guide for New Visitors/Users
• TCU Treatment System: An integrative overview (PDF: 593 KB / 6 pages) and summaries for Conceptual Frameworks.
•  IBR Newsletter (PDF: 181 KB / 4 pages) on Automated Data Capture (ADC) for Client Assessments.
• IBR Web site recognized with 2008 Award of Excellence for technical communications.
• 2007 Annual Report is ready for downloading as a PDF file. The report is an updated summary of IBR project activities for 2007. (PDF: 620KB / 34 pages; Downloading instructions, if needed)
Improving Treatment Services:
• Guide to selecting from over 20 Manuals for addiction treatment counselors and related evidence.
• Guide to selecting from over 70 Forms for assessing needs and functioning of clients and treatment programs.
• Client intervention manuals released for Mapping Your Treatment Plan and Getting Motivated to Change.
• TCU Client Evaluation of Self and Treatment (CEST) Scales include norms for 25-75th and 33-67th percentile scores and gender subgroups.
Criminal Justice Treatments:
• Treating Addicted Offenders: Vol. 2 (Edited by K. Knight & D. Farabee) is now published.
• A series of articles is now published on Offender Needs and Functioning Assessments (Simpson & K. Knight, Guest Editors, CJB, Vol. 34, Issue 9, September 2007). Also see IBR newsletter summary (PDF: 159 KB / 4 pages).
• IBR newsletter (PDF: 512 KB / 6 pages) summarizes CJ treatment applications.
• TCU CJ-CEST and Criminal Thinking Scales (CTS) include 25-75 and 33-67 percentile scores to help assess correctional populations.
Improving Innovation Implementation:
• Guide for Assessing Organization Functioning (Full text: PDF, 204KB) by Drs. Simpson and Dansereau has been published in NIDA’s Science & Practice Perspectives.
• A series of articles is now published on Organizational Readiness for Change (Simpson & Flynn, Guest Editors, JSAT, Vol. 33, Issue 2, September 2007). Also see IBR newsletter summary (PDF: 162 KB / 4 pages).
• Mapping Organizational Change available for guiding treatment planning and monitoring progress.
• TCU Organizational Readiness for Change (ORC) scales include 25-75 percentile norms for comparative interpretations.
International Activities:
• National Treatment Agency (NTA) for Substance Misuse in England is a TCU collaborator for studies of “technology transfer” (PDF: 360KB / 6 pages) and strategies for improving treatment (see Update, the NTA newsletter, Spring 2007 issue (PDF: 315 KB / 8 pages).
• NTA Report on The International Treatment Effectiveness Project (July 2007) (PDF: 421 KB / 16 pages) summarizes favorable implementation in England.
• The first newsletter of the Birmingham Treatment Effectiveness Initiative (BTEI) describes the UK project and TCU’s collaborative role. (PDF: 2 MG / 4 pages)
• Italy’s Veneto region is a collaborator for study of organizational functioning (see latest publication).
Media Reports:
• TCU Endeavors
Patrick Flynn and the TCOM Project are featured in the article, “Uncovering the real cost of rehab” (also in PDF: 37K/4 pages) from Endeavors, TCU’s new research magazine.
Friends of NIDA Congressional Briefings:
• Co-Occuring Substance Use and Mental Illness
Recently on Capitol Hill, Drs. Nora Volkow and Patrick Flynnpresented research updates on “Double Jeopardy: When Addiction and Mental Illness Co-Exist.”
• Criminal Justice Systems
Dr. Nora Volkow, Dexter Manley, and Dr. Dwayne Simpson discussed addiction research on “Effectively Breaking the Cycle of Drugs and Crime” on Capitol Hill.
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