Newsletter Section contents:
Research Reports from IBR (2006–current IBR newsletters)
Research Summaries
     Overview of TCU Treatment System
     Focus on Conceptual Frameworks
     --  Treatment Process and Outcomes
     --  Organizational Change
     Focus on Interventions
     --  Counseling Manuals for Special Interventions
     --  Treatment Mapping
     --  Treatment Readiness and Induction Strategies
     --  Contingency Management
     Focus on Assessments
     --  Treatment Assessment
     --  Organizational Assessments of Needs and Functioning
     --  Using the TCU Drug Screen
     --  Correctional Treatment

Research Roundup (2001-2005 newsletters and archives)
IBR Technical Reports
Guest Newsletter Articles highlight selected IBR research activities

• Volume 19, No. 4, Winter 2010-2011 issue
(PDF; 365 KB / 6 pages).  Making Treatment Work 

• Volume 19, No. 2-3, Summer-Fall 2010 issue
(PDF: 310 KB/4 pages). Treating Adolescents

• Volume 19, No. 1, Spring 2010 issue
(PDF: 400 KB/4 pages). Welcome to the TCU Mapping Atlas!

• Volume 18, Nos. 1-2, Spring-Summer 2009 issue
(PDF: 350 KB/4 pages).   Tables for this issue: PDF; 350 KB / 4 pages
Report on IBR Summer Mapping Training 

• Volume 17, No. 4, Winter 2008-2009 issue
(PDF; 252 KB / 4 pages).  A Quick Guide to TCU Mapping 

• Volume 17, No. 3, Fall 2008 issue
(PDF; 102 KB / 4 pages).  Using Client Assessments

• Volume 17, No. 2, Summer 2008 issue
(PDF; 422 KB / 4 pages).  Revisiting the Basics of Treatment

• Volume 17, No. 1, Spring 2008 issue
(PDF; 181 KB / 4 pages).  Client Needs and Progress Monitoring

• Volume 16, No. 4, Winter 2006-2007 issue
(PDF; 154 KB / 4 pages).  Research and Practice Collaboration 

• Volume 16, No. 3, Fall 2006 issue
(PDF; 290 KB / 4 pages). Organizational Readiness for Change

• Volume 16, Nos. 1-2, Spring-Summer 2006 issue
(PDF; 153 KB / 4 pages).  Assessing Offenders in Treatment

PDF; 518 KB / 6 pages
Items from this issue:
· Tooling up for treating offenders
· TCU resources for CJ treatments
· Adopting and implementing innovations
· Coming this summer...
· References for this issue

PDF; 131 KB / 6 pages
Items from this issue:
· Improving treatment in the "real world"
· Transferring useful assessments
· Interventions for the real world
· Research Highlights: Reports in press
· What's New on the Web
 

PDF; 301 KB / 6 pages
Items from this issue:
· Technology Transfer Across the Pond
· Building Bridges for Treatment Effectiveness
· Inside Reports: The RISE Day Programme, London
· Inside Reports: Training Efforts Reflect Needs in the Field
·  What's New on the Web

PDF; 546 KB / 6 pages
Items from this issue:
· Models of client and program change
· Simplifying client and program assessments
· Research Highlights
· What's New on the Web
 

PDF; 121 KB / 4 pages
Items from this issue:
· Please use it and pass it on
· International focus on organizational functioning
· TCU Drug Screen continues to gain popularity
· What's New on the Web

PDF; 152 KB / 4 pages
Items from this issue:
· Getting them motivated:  A key element in treatment process
· CETOP motivation and cognitive enhancements
· Research Highlights: Reports in press
· What's New on the Web

PDF; 178 KB / 6 pages
Items from this issue:
· DATAR: A 20-Year Research Program
· Identifying core factors of change
· Fresh Voices:  Graduate Training at IBR
· Research Highlights: Reports in press
· What's New on the Web
 

PDF; 444 KB / 4 pages
Items from this issue:
· User-friendly management systems for improving treatment
· Treatment Costs and Organizational Monitoring: Taking a program's pulse
· Research Highlights
· What's New on the Web

PDF; 303 KB / 6 pages
Items from this issue:
· Fingertip access to IBR resources
· Reports from the field: Case studies in research-to-practice
· Research Highlights: Reports in press
· What's New on the Web
 

PDF; 233 KB / 4 pages
Items from this issue:
· NIDA launches CJ-DATS
· Investigating drug abuse treatment for correctional populations
· Research Highlights: Reports in press
· What's New on the Web
 

PDF; 285 KB / 6 pages
Items from this issue:
· Conceptual and practical aspects of transferring research to practice
· "Take the ball and run"
· JSAT article abstracts
· What's New on the Web

 

PDF; 445 KB / 6 pages
Items from this issue:
· Surveying provider training needs
· TCU Program Training Needs (PTN): Results of a statewide survey in Louisiana
· Research Highlights
· What's new on the Web
 

PDF; 370 KB / 8 pages
Items from this issue:
· DATAR-3: Building Foundations for Technology Transfer
· Research Highlights: Reports in press
· Upcoming 2001 IBR Annual Report
· What's New on the Web

PDF; 285 KB / 6 pages
Items from this issue:
· Workplace prevention programs show promise
· CETOP-2 targets motivation, recovery skills
· Parenting study underway
· Research Highlights: Reports in press
· What's New on the Web
 

PDF; 227 KB / 6 pages
Items from this issue:
· Pacific Northwest hosts research-based interventions conference
· Assessments of organizational functioning
· Research Highlights
· What's new on the Web

Winter 2000-01: Vol. 10, No. 4
PDF; 255 KB / 6 pages
 

Fall 2000: Vol. 10, No. 3
PDF; 149 KB / 6 pages

Spring-Summer 2000: Vol. 10, Nos. 1-2
PDF; 203 KB / 8 pages
 

Fall 1999: Vol. 9, No. 3
PDF; 131 KB / 6 pages

Summer 1999: Vol. 9, No. 2
PDF; 138 KB / 8 pages
 

Spring 1999: Vol. 9, No. 1
PDF; 58 KB / 6 pages

Fall-Winter 1998-99: Vol. 8, No. 3-4
PDF; 63 KB / 6 pages
 

Summer 98 : Vol. 8, No. 2
PDF; 88 KB / 4 pages

Spring 1998: Vol. 8, No. 1
PDF; 116 KB / 4 pages
 

Winter 1997-98: Vol. 7, No. 4
PDF; 77 KB / 8 pages

Fall 1997: Vol. 7, No. 3
PDF; 74 KB / 6 pages
     

Summer 1997: Vol. 7, No. 2
PDF; 107 KB / 6 pages

Spring 1997: Vol. 7, No. 1
 

Winter 1996-97: Vol. 6, No. 4
 

Fall 1996: Vol. 6, No. 3
 

Summer 1996: Vol. 6, No. 2
 

Spring 1996: Vol. 6, No. 1
 

This IBR technical report (PDF: 217K / 17 pages) features the “Adaptation and Implementation of TCU Mapping-Enhanced Counseling and Assessment Resources in the United Kingdom.”  A NIDA-funded International Scientist Award to Dwayne Simpson (and his primary collaborator, Dr. Ed Day, from the University of Birmingham, England) provided travel funds for visiting International Treatment Effectiveness Project (ITEP) and Birmingham Treatment Effectiveness Initiative (BTEI) implementation sites throughout the UK.  This report summarizes progress made and challenges being faced by groups visited during September, October, and November 2009.
 

The document presents the planning for “Leadership Meetings for Applications of TCU-Based Resources” in the UK. The planning was developed for the U.S. Distinguished International Scientist Collaboration Award by Dwayne Simpson. This document is included here as an IBR technical report (PDF: 113K / 4 pages) and explains the background and planned activities for the award.
 

Evidence-based resources using TCU Mapping-Enhanced Counseling have been widely disseminated (without charge) via the IBR Website.  Increasing numbers of treatment systems, however, are requesting advice for developing strategic applications of TCU assessments and interventions as part of an adaptive, stage-based services framework. 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.
   

This 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).

Special issue from Drug and Alcohol Findings (2002; Mike Ashton, Editor). (Issue 7, 2002: PDF; 2.15 MB / 10 pages)  The article by Christine Franey and Mike Ashton, "The grand designs from DATOS" (pp. 4-7, 16-19) provides a comprehensive external review of DATOS research and policy implications.  Subcription information for Drug and Alcohol Findings is included with the article.
  

Special issue from Patient Feedback News: A National Drug Abuse Clinical Trial Network Study (Vol. 3, No. 1, 2005: PDF: 404K / 4 pages)  The article, "Clinician resources: Mapping new roads to recovery" (pp. 3-4), highlights node-link mapping, a cognitive intervention for drug treatment developed by IBR's CETOP Project.  This study is being conducted at the Treatment Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania in Philadephia.  More information is available at the institute's Web site.
 

Special issue of Offender Substance Abuse Report, 1(4), 49-64. (July/August 2001: PDF; 168K / 16 pages)  Includes the article, “The TCU Model of Treatment Process and Outcomes in Correctional Settings” (pp. 51-53, 58).   The Report is now titled Offender Programs Report.  OPR subscription information is available through the Civic Research Institute Website: http://civicresearchinstitute.com/opr.html

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