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27 October 2009
IBR Staff and graduate students present seven poster presentations at the AHSR Annual Meeting

Poster Presentations are listed on the Feature Presentations Web page that IBR staff and students are presenting at the October 2009 (28th-30th) Addiction Health Services Research Annual Meeting in San Francisco.  Besides the posters’ information, PDF files are provided to show the posters in letter-page size (8 1/2 by 11 inches).

11 September 2009
The “Contents” and “Site Map” site guides are updated

The IBR Web’s site guides for Contents and the Site Map are updated to reflect the most current topics and the site structure used to cover the subjects.

3 September 2009
“Forms” changes are made

TCU Short Forms have been added to update the TCU Short (ADC) Forms Web page (was the TCU ADC Forms page).  These forms facilitate customized assessment planning for adaptive treatment applications. 

21 August 2009
Spring-Summer 2009 issue of Research Reports from IBR newsletter is online

In our latest newsletter issue (Spring-Summer 2009 issue from Research Reports from IBR; PDF: 350 KB / 4 pages ; Tables, PDF: 22KB / 4 pages), Dwayne Simpson, Norma Bartholomew, and Donald Dansereau summarize ratings by trainees on factors representing “readiness for change” and their evaluations of our IBR Summer Mapping Training conducted in July. 

06 May 2009
IBR Manuals Section reorganizes and adds several manuals

The Manuals Section of the IBR site now provides a Web page of description for each manual, including a page for each “topic-focused modular application (TMA).”  Links are updated throughout.  Six of the TMAs now include a special version for criminal justice populations and a new manual entitled Mapping Your Reentry Plan is now available.  Check out the updated Manuals Selection Matrix (PDF: 154 KB / 3 pages) for the current list of manuals, with a link to each available manual, its description, and PDF download. 

24 April 2009
IBR Announces Summer Mapping Training in July

Don Dansereau and Norma Bartholomew will conduct training for TCU Mapping-Enhanced Counseling (TMEC) July 14-16 on the TCU campus in Fort Worth.  Download the training information/registration form (PDF: 436 KB / 3 pages) for details. 

04 March 2009
Winter 2008-2009 issue of Research Reports from IBR newsletter is online

In our latest newsletter issue (Winter 2008-2009 issue from Research Reports from IBR; PDF: 252 KB / 4 pages), Drs. Donald Dansereau and Dwayne Simpson summarize TCU Mapping-Enhanced Counseling in “A Quick Guide to TCU Mapping.”  This newsletter issue covers the application guides, research findings, and free downloadable manuals for those wishing to learn more about using TCU Mapping.

26 February 2008
2008 Annual Report now online as PDF

IBR’s Annual Report is ready for downloading as an online PDF file.  The report is a summary of IBR research activities for 2008 and targets Web links to additional research reports in the IBR Web site.  (Downloading information)

6 January 2009
New IBR Technical Report discusses Strategic Treatment Planning Seminars

This IBR technical report (PDF: 143K / 6 pages) highlights the “Strategic Treatment Planning” (RAP) seminar being offered for small groups of program planners and innovation leaders gathered in regional settings.  It includes a hands-on and interactive review of how TCU resources “fit together” and can be implemented to meet customized program needs.

19 December 2008
Selection Matrix added to Manuals Section

The Manuals Selection Matrix (PDF: 144KB / 3 pages) provides information for helping site visitors pick the TCU Manuals appropriate for their substance abuse treatment needs.  In the matrix, the manuals are categorized by TCU Treatment Stage, focal topics, specific populations, and counseling needs.  The matrix is available throughout the Manuals Section and has embedded links to manual descriptions and download links.
   

Please Note:  Important terminology change

In the Manuals section of this Website, the “Brief Interventions” are now called topic-focused modular applications. 

12 December 2008
Fall issue of Research Reports from IBR online newsletter is now available

In our latest newsletter issue (Fall 2008 from Research Reports from IBR; PDF: 102 KB / 4 pages), Drs. Dwayne Simpson and Pat Flynn expand on “Using Client Assessments.”  This newsletter covers newly developed forms in the TCU ADC Forms set.  Additional discussions include selecting “sets” of forms, and detailing clinical guidelines for using the assessments.

14 November 2008
Revised set of TCU ADC Forms for automated data capture

A revised set of TCU ADC Forms have been adapted for use in single-page optical scanning applications.

6 November 2008
IBR Technical Report discusses What is the plan for CJ-DATS?

This new IBR technical report (PDF: 358K / 8 pages) provides an overview of needs and objectives envisioned by the Texas Research Center and its team of Criminal Justice Collaborators participating in the national Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS).   Funding is from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

3 October 2008
2 New Manuals Ready for Downloading from IBR Website

Two new manuals are available to download from IBR’s growing list of TCU Treatment Manuals.  These manuals are Mapping-Enhanced Counseling: An Introduction and Using Client Assessments to Plan and Monitor Treatment (sometimes called the Using CEST Guide).   Both manuals were developed by IBR research scientists to provide targeted materials designed particularly for counselors and group facilitators working in substance abuse treatment programs.

3 September 2008
IBR hosts CJ-DATS Collaborators Meeting at TCU

CJ-DATS Collaborators Meeting at TCU (Aug 27) included presentations by Simpson and by Bartholomew requested by many of the 40 participants from 10 states and major service provider systems.

10 July 2008
Summer issue of Research Reports from IBR online newsletter is published

In our latest newsletter issue (Summer 2008 from Research Reports from IBR; PDF: 422 KB / 4 pages), Dr. Dwayne Simpson addresses the five basic questions of treatment. “Revisiting the basics of treatment” reviews the fundamentals of effective substance abuse treatment within the conceptual framework of the TCU Treatment Model.  This new issue includes 4 figures and offers more detailed descriptions of the linkages between TCU evidence-based assessments and interventions.

29 May 2008
Dwayne Simpson presents at 2008 NIDA Blending Conference

IBR Director, Dr. Dwayne Simpson presents “Evidence-Based Frameworks for Planning Innovations and Field Implementation” at the June 2008 NIDA Blending Conference in Cincinnati, OH.  Handouts are available.  (PDF: 455 KB / 8 pages/ 6 slides per page).

20 March 2008
IBR’s current Research Reports from IBR newsletter is available

Our latest newsletter (Research Reports from IBR) is the Spring 2008 (PDF: 181 KB / 4 pages) issue that highlights the new TCU ADC Forms now available (see below) in the Forms section of this site. 

28 February 2008
New Automated Data Capture (ADC) Forms

Several of our most popular TCU Forms have been adapted for use in single-page optical scanning applications.

12 February 2008
2007 Annual Report now online as PDF

IBR's Annual Report is ready for downloading as an online PDF file.  The report is a summary of IBR research activities for 2007 and targets Web links to additional research reports in the IBR Web site.  (Downloading information)

15-16 October 2007
Dwayne Simpson presents invited paper at Stockholm conference

Dr. Dwayne Simpson, IBR Director, delivered an invited paper,  Organizational readiness for stage-based dynamics of innovation implementation, at the Stockholm Conference on Implementation & Translational Research (October 15-16), sponsored by the IMS/Swedish National Institute of Public Health, Stockholm, Sweden.  [Paper’s Abstract]  [Handouts: PDF; 175KB; 6 pages, 2 slides per page]

29 August 2007
Special Issues of CJB and JSAT are now published

Special journal issues from Criminal Justice and Behavior and the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment have arrived from the publishers.  Drs. Dwayne Simpson and Kevin Knight are guest editors for the CJB September 2007 issue with articles on “Offender Needs and Functioning Assessments.”  Dr. Simpson also serves as guest editor with Dr. Pat Flynn for the September 2007 special issue of JSAT, which focuses a series of articles on “Organizational Readiness for Change.”

17 July 2007
IBR’s current Research Reports from IBR newsletter is available

Our latest newsletter (Research Reports from IBR) is the Winter issue that just came belatedly in from the cold.  It focuses on pearls and perils of “research and practice collaborations”—mainly from a service provider perspective.  More attention spent on staff preparations and expectations about research participation probably can improve progress in the global push toward adopting “evidence-based practices.”

27 June 2007
Advice for New Visitors

Dr. Dwayne Simpson, IBR Director, shares “Advice for New Visitors” who are seeking addiction treatment resources at our IBR Website.  Over 400 downloadable resources files are available and his advice offers expert guidance to help researchers, clinicians, and program administrators find materials they need.

05 June 2007
New Brief Intervention for mapping treatment plans

The Brief Intervention collection of manuals now includes a new entry, "Mapping Your Treatment Plan: A Collaborative Approach," a mapping-focused guide for working with clients to establish meaningful and useful treatment goals.   Brief Interventions from the TCU Treatment System provide targeted materials designed particularly for counselors and group facilitators working in substance abuse treatment programs.

27 April 2007
MAJOR REVISIONS to sections of the IBR Web site
1.  The TCU Manuals section
has now been reorganized to help guide logistical selections of our counseling session guides according to therapeutic applications.

2. The TCU Forms section
likewise has been redesigned to describe assessments of client and organizational functioning more strategically in relation to stages of client recovery as well as treatment process and innovation.  These new sections on manuals and forms each contain graphics for conceptual visualization of the resources and can be conveniently printed for use in staff discussions about potential treatment innovations.

3. Evidence Section
We revised the former “Resource Collections” section.  It is re-titled Evidence and will focus on findings that support the use of the TCU treatment concepts and resources discussed above.  This is part of our efforts to integrate and communicate our research findings in a consumer-friendly format.

28 February 2007
IBR's new quarterly newsletter, Research Reports from IBR

IBR researchers have now updated IBR's quarterly newsletter, Research Reports from IBR, replacing the Research Roundup newsletter of many years.  The first two issues of Research Reports feature special journal issues.  The Spring-Summer 2006 issue (PDF: 202KB / 4 pages) highlights the articles now published from Criminal Justice and Behavior.  In the Fall 2006 issue (PDF: 290KB / 4 pages), IBR researchers include an overview of articles on "Organizational Readiness for Change" for the 2007 published special issue of Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.

2006 Annual Report now online as PDF

IBR's Annual Report is ready for downloading as an online PDF file.  The report is a summary of IBR research activities for 2006 and targets Web links to additional research reports in the IBR Web site.  (Downloading information)

19 December 2006
Report from the BTEI collaboration with TCU

The Birmingham Treatment Effectiveness Initiative (BTEI) has published its first issue of the project's newsletter (PDF: 2 MG / 4 pages).  This issue includes information on the Birmingham, England project and their collaboration with IBR at TCU.  Features are an article written by IBR Director Dr. Dwayne Simpson on "How Treatment Works," and a project timetable illustration based on a TCU model.   Further newsletter issues will be published as the project develops.

27 October 2006
Latest Brief Intervention covers motivation to change

The Brief Intervention collection of manuals now includes a new entry, "Getting Motivated to Change."   Brief Interventions from the TCU Treatment System provide targeted materials designed particularly for counselors and group facilitators working in substance abuse treatment programs.

New information explains the options of ordering the game, Downward Spiral: the game you really don't want to play, pre-assembled or downloading a free manual to assemble the game by hand.  Check out this new page in the Manuals Section for Downward Spiral options and details.

23 June 2006
Newest Brief Intervention provides additional mapping guide

The Brief Interventions collection of manuals now includes an additional mapping guide, "Mapping Organizational Change: A Guidebook on Program Needs."   Brief Interventions from the TCU Treatment System provide targeted materials designed particularly for counselors and group facilitators working in substance abuse treatment programs. 

5 May 2006
Training Package added to Manuals Section

Team Awareness Small Business is a 4-hour team-based training program for workplace substance abuse prevention that integrates team building exercises with peer referral and stress management skills.  Understanding the time constraints of small businesses, the training was modified from the original 8-hour program, Team Awareness: Drugs in the Workplace. 

30 March 2006
New Brief Intervention from the TCU Treatment System

The Brief Interventions collection of manuals now includes "Contingency Management Strategies and Ideas."   Brief Interventions from the TCU Treatment System provide targeted materials designed particularly for counselors and group facilitators working in substance abuse treatment programs. 

10 February 2006
2005 Annual Report now online as PDF

IBR's Annual Report is ready for downloading as an online PDF file.  The report is a summary of IBR research activities for 2005, and also targets Web links to research information in this Web site and the DATOS site. (Downloading information)

20 December 2005
Fall 2005 issue of Research Roundup

The IBR currently operates four inter-connected grants with NIDA funding.   Through these projects, we continue to work in the "real world" with staff at hundreds of community-based and correctional drug treatment programs located throughout the U.S. and abroad (PDF: 131KB / 6 pages)

23 September 2005
Brief Interventions from the TCU Treatment System

Brief Interventions from the TCU Treatment System include a series of targeted materials designed particularly for counselors and group facilitators working in substance abuse treatment programs.  The collection of manuals contains focused, easily accessible, and brief strategies for engaging clients in discussions and activities on important recovery topics (social networks, anger, mapping).  

27 July 2005
Additional TCU Treatment Manuals Available

Manuals covering 12-Step guide maps, HIV/AIDS education during drug treatment, and workplace substance abuse prevention can be downloaded now from this site.  Check out the Manuals Section for details on all the manuals available.

11 July 2005
Spring-Summer 2005 issue of Research Roundup

The Research Roundup Spring-Summer 2005 issue describes IBR's collaboration with England's National Treatment Agency (NTA) for Substance Misuse.  Articles include: "Technology Transfer Across the Pond" and "Building Bridges of Treatment Effectiveness."  

23 June 2005
TCU Treatment System

An integrative overview (PDF: 207 KB / 6 pages) of TCU assessment and intervention resources for clinical and program management applications is now available.   Also see special summaries on:
  •  Conceptual Frameworks
  •  Interventions
  •  Assessments   

24 February 2005
Fall-Winter 2004-05 issue of Research Roundup

The Research Roundup Fall-Winter 2004-05 issue features "Models of client and systems change" with special focus on "simplifying client and program assessments." 

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