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2012

Arts and Humanities

Peter Kelly

Abuse

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Examining Cancer And Cardiovascular Risk Behaviours In People Attending Residential Substance Abuse Treatment, Peter Kelly, A Baker, Frances Kay-Lambkin, Frank Deane, Billie Bonevski Jul 2012

Examining Cancer And Cardiovascular Risk Behaviours In People Attending Residential Substance Abuse Treatment, Peter Kelly, A Baker, Frances Kay-Lambkin, Frank Deane, Billie Bonevski

Peter Kelly

No abstract provided.


Do Spirituality And Religiosity Help In The Management Of Cravings In Substance Abuse Treatment?, Sarah Mason, Frank Deane, Peter Kelly, Trevor Crowe Jul 2012

Do Spirituality And Religiosity Help In The Management Of Cravings In Substance Abuse Treatment?, Sarah Mason, Frank Deane, Peter Kelly, Trevor Crowe

Peter Kelly

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of spirituality, religiosity and self-efficacy with drug and/or alcohol cravings. A cross-sectional survey was completed by 77 male participants at an Australian Salvation Army residential rehabilitation service in 2007. The survey included questions relating to the participants’ drug and/or alcohol use and also measures for spirituality, religiosity, cravings, and self-efficacy. The sample included participants aged between 19 and 74 years, with more than 57% reporting a diagnosis for a mental disorder and 78% reporting polysubstance misuse with alcohol most frequently endorsed as the primary drug of concern (71%). Seventy-five percent …


What Role Does Religious And Spiritual Coping Have In Substance Abuse Treatments?, Sarah Mason, Frank Deane, Peter Kelly Jul 2012

What Role Does Religious And Spiritual Coping Have In Substance Abuse Treatments?, Sarah Mason, Frank Deane, Peter Kelly

Peter Kelly

No abstract provided.


Benchmarking Client Improvement Within Substance Abuse Treatment, Peter Kelly, Frank Deane Jul 2012

Benchmarking Client Improvement Within Substance Abuse Treatment, Peter Kelly, Frank Deane

Peter Kelly

No abstract provided.


Faith-Based Substance Abuse Treatment: Is It Just About God? Exploring Treatment Providers' Attitudes Toward Spirituality, Forgiveness And Secular Components Of Treatment, Geoffrey Lyons, Frank Deane, Peter Kelly Jul 2012

Faith-Based Substance Abuse Treatment: Is It Just About God? Exploring Treatment Providers' Attitudes Toward Spirituality, Forgiveness And Secular Components Of Treatment, Geoffrey Lyons, Frank Deane, Peter Kelly

Peter Kelly

Although spirituality and forgiveness components of substance abuse treatment programs ar'e viewed as important by faithbased substance abuse treatment providers researchers have not compared their relative importance to other treatment components. This study evaluated the perceived importance of spiritually and forgiveness-based treatment components in comparison to other secular psycho-educational components in faith-based treatment programs. A brief survey was completed by 99 Salvation Army drug and alcohol treatment providers employed within Australian residential rehabilitation programs. The survey examined the relative importance treatment providers' placed on spiritual and secular components of treatment. Attitudes towards spiritual components of treatment, such as Christian education …