Program Profile: TCU Mapping-Enhanced Counseling for Substance Users

This program consists of a cognitive technique for incorporating graphic visualization tools into the counseling process for substance users.

Evidence Rating: Promising | One study

Date:

This program consists of a cognitive technique for incorporating graphic visualization tools into the counseling process for substance users. The program is rated Promising. The mapping-enhanced counseling group showed a statistically significant reduction in positive drug tests for opiates and cocaine at the 6-month posttest, compared with the control group.

A Promising rating implies that implementing the program may result in the intended outcome(s).

This program's rating is based on evidence that includes at least one high-quality randomized controlled trial.

Date Modified: March 4, 2021

In 2011, the TCU Mapping-Enhanced Counseling intervention received a final program evidence rating of Promising based on a review of a study by Joe and colleagues (1997). In 2018, a review of the Dansereau and colleagues study (1996), using the updated Program Scoring Instrument, resulted in the same final program evidence rating of Promising.

Date Created: July 17, 2024
Program Snapshot

Age: 18+

Gender: Male, Female

Race/Ethnicity: White, Black, Hispanic

Geography: Suburban Urban Rural

Setting (Delivery): Other Community Setting, Inpatient/Outpatient

Program Type: Alcohol and Drug Therapy/Treatment, Residential Treatment Center

Targeted Population: Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Offenders

Current Program Status: Active

Program Developer:
Donald Dansereau
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Associate Director
Institute of Behavioral Research, Texas Christian University

P.O. Box 298740
Fort Worth, TX 76129
United States

Phone: 817.257.7226
Website(link is external)
Email

Researcher:
George W. Joe
Senior Research Scientist
Institute of Behavioral Research, Texas Christian University

TCU Box 298740
Fort Worth, TX 76129
United States

Phone: 817.257.7226
Website(link is external)
Email

Norma Bartholomew
Clinical Training Coordinator
Institute of Behavioral Research, Texas Christian University

P.O. Box 298740
Fort Worth, TX 76129
United States

Phone: 817.257.6476
Website(link is external)
Email