PMID: 9534124Apr 16, 1998Paper

Measuring treatment philosophy: a scale for substance abuse recovery programs

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
L A KaskutasJ A Room

Abstract

The assessment of the philosophy that guides substance abuse treatment programs has been a difficult subject to approach by those working in treatment research. Differing treatment philosophies are generally represented by multi-dimensional theoretical constructs that do not easily lend themselves to assessment by quantitative means. In the U.S., substance abuse treatment programs have been suggested as fitting into a disease (or medical) model, a social learning (or psychological) model, or a social community model in designing a treatment regime for clients. This paper presents a Social Model Philosophy Scale (SMPS) to classify the extent to which a given treatment program follows a social model approach to treatment. The final version of the SMPS (available from the first author) contains 33 questions for use in residential programs, divided into six conceptual domains: physical environment, staff role, authority base, view of substance abuse problems, governance, and community orientation. Overall internal reliability is high (alpha = .92), with subscale alphas ranging between .57 and .79. Test-retest analyses showed that the information obtained from the SMPS is consistent across time, administrators, and respondents. In a...Continue Reading

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