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