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K Bryan

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PubMed1991

The facts behind the figures: a reply to Enderby and Davies (1989).

In 1989, Enderby and Davies discussed the type and pattern of speech and language therapy provision which would be required to service the needs of the speech- and language-impaired population of the UK, on the basis of statistical information drawn from a wide range of sources. In this paper, some methodological issues arising from their study are addressed and an argument made that alternative models of service provision should be considered when planning for future needs.

Cerebrovascular Disorders↗
PubMed1986

Involving relatives in aphasia therapy: an application of language enrichment therapy.

A programme of therapy for aphasia devised in Finland, Language Enrichment Therapy, was tested in an English version, particularly in respect of its co-operative use by speech therapists and the patients' relatives at home. Although a number of changes were recommended, the method was approved of by therapists and relatives. The majority of patients showed improvement, as assessed by the Western Aphasia Battery, over a period of less than three months with a regimen of one hour a week with the therapist supplemented by an average of five hours of help by a relative at home. These results should encourage the development of programmes such as Language Enrichment Therapy as an economic way of enabling speech therapists to use volunteer helpers.

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An historical and developmental analysis of social model programs.

This review synthesizes the philosophy, development, history, and current status of the philosophy of social or community model of recovery and of Social Model Programs (SMPs) based on an analysis of the available literature, much of it outside traditional sources. The social-community model of recovery evolved out of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), and has a distinctive program philosophy with different assumptions, knowledge, and practice than professionally based treatment models. SMPs began in the 1940s in California, evolving by the 1980s into a continuum of recovery services that are publicly funded, legally incorporated nonprofit organizations. The characteristics of SMPs are described and the range of services are presented, including social setting detoxification, residential recovery homes, non-residential neighborhood recovery centers and sober living houses. SMPs are staffed exclusively by recovering alcoholics and their structure is based on the 12 traditions of AA, which emphasize democratic group processes with shared and rotated leadership and a minimal hierarchy. Cost effectiveness data suggest that residential social model programs average approximately $2,700 per stay versus $4,400 for other residential approaches, yet may offer similar outcomes in terms of substance use and improvement employment or family function.

Alcoholics Anonymous↗