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This manual includes a series of “topic-focused modular applications” designed particularly for counselors and group facilitators working in substance abuse treatment programs.  The collection of applications contains focused, easily accessible, and brief adaptive strategies for using rewards and star charts to reinforce goal setting, early engagement, and retention in treatment settings. 

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About this manual

This manual is a planning guide for using rewards and star charts to reinforce goal setting, early engagement, and retention in treatment settings.

Modular applications in this manual include: 

• Part 1 -- CM: Getting Started provides background and considerations for developing simple contingency management (CM) or reinforcement protocols for use in substance abuse treatment settings.  Information from research-based interventions developed for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is included, along with issues to consider for protocol design, implementation, and management.  This chapter is designed as a primer for treatment staff interested in simple, yet effective reinforcement strategies to strengthen motivation and engagement in treatment.

• Part 2 -- StarCharts and Rewards presents ideas for a sample protocol for implementing CM with existing clients using simple incentive charts (StarCharts) and prizes.  This section provides counselors and caseworkers with guidelines for getting ready for the protocol and for introducing and discussing CM participation with clients.  Samples of client information sheets and informed consent forms are included, along with examples of incentive chart templates.

• Part 3 -- Rewarding Effort and Initiative provides a framework for conducting a goal-setting counseling session with clients to help identify tasks related to accomplishing goals as part of a CM protocol.  The client and counselor work together to set a star “value” for each task, along with timelines and how accomplishment will be objectively assessed.  A scripted sample interview is included, along with a planning template for charting agreed upon tasks and how stars will be awarded.

• CM Bibliography

The Contingency Management Strategies and Ideas manual may be freely used for personal, educational, research, and/or information purposes only.  Permission is hereby granted to reproduce and distribute copies of content material (except reprinted passages from copyrighted sources) for nonprofit educational and nonprofit library purposes, provided that copies are distributed at or below costs and that credit for author and source are included on each copy.  No part of any material may be copied, downloaded, stored in a retrieval system, or redistributed for any commercial purpose without the expressed written permission of Texas Christian University.

Recommended Citation:  Bartholomew, N. G., Rowan-Szal, G. A., & Simpson, D. D. (2005).  Contingency Management Strategies and Ideas.  Fort Worth: Texas Christian University, Institute of Behavioral Research.  Available:  the IBR Website: www.ibr.tcu.edu.

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Evidence and Selected References

The Evidence section of this site offers information on the TCU Mapping-Enhanced Counseling and its Published Evidence list of selected references.

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Background and Overview

Downloading Manual Files

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Manuals Selection Matrix
Updated: Sept 15, 2009

Mapping Guides: A Cognitive Strategy Using Visual Representation

Mapping-Enhanced Counseling: An Introduction

Mapping New Roads to Recovery: Cognitive Enhancements to Counseling

TCU Guide Maps:  A Resource for Counselors

Mapping Your Steps: “Twelve Step” Guide Maps

Manuals for Motivation and Induction into Treatment

Getting Motivated to Change

Mapping Your Treatment Plan

Using Client Assessments to Plan and Monitor Treatment

Preparation for Change: Tower of Strengths and the Weekly Planner

Downward Spiral: The game you really don't want to play

Manuals for Improving Engagement in Treatment

Contingency Management Strategies and Ideas

Understanding and Reducing Angry Feelings

Unlock Your Thinking, Open Your Mind

Mapping the Journey: A Treatment Guidebook

Manuals for Improving Early Recovery in Treatment

Ideas for Better Communication

Building Social Networks

Time Out! For Me:  An Assertiveness and Sexuality Workshop for Women

Time Out! For Men: A Communication Skills and Sexuality Workshop for Men

Manuals for Improving Retention and Re-entry

Partners in Parenting

Straight Ahead: Transition Skills for Recovery

Mapping Your Reentry Plan: Heading Home

Common Sense Ideas on HIV Prevention and Sexual Health

Approaches to HIV/AIDS Education in Drug Treatment

Manuals for Organizational Interventions

Mapping Organizational Change: A Guidebook on Program Needs

Team Awareness, Small Business 4-hour Edition: Training for Workplace Substance Abuse Prevention

Team Awareness, Drugs in the Workplace 8-hour Edition:  Training for Workplace Substance Abuse Prevention

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