No time to talk: how client assessment requirements get in the way of treatment

Abstract

The requirement for information from treatment services has transformed the relationship between drug treatment worker and client. Key work sessions are increasingly dominated by assessment and screening exercises that deliver little therapeutic benefit but process clients through the system. This has the effect of alienating potential clients with problematic use patterns of substances other than opiates and crack cocaine.

Citation

Gates, P. (2010), "No time to talk: how client assessment requirements get in the way of treatment", Drugs and Alcohol Today, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 36-37. https://doi.org/10.5042/daat.2010.0256