1. AODA Providers: Personal-vs-AODA Providers: Personal-vs-
Professional ValuesProfessional Values
 Personal experience often influences interest in the field
 Benefits
 First hand experience
 Understand treatment system
 Drawbacks
 “My way” is best
 Refusal to support other approaches
 Focus too much on own issues; self-disclosure
 Having recovering and non-recovering providers
 Key factor: maintaining professional values in the field,
supporting the client & ethics in the workplace
 Key factor: scope of practice