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We strive to deliver information and resources that will help you to provide high-quality, cutting edge treatment services, prevention programming, recovery support, maintenance, and other behavioral health-related services.

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CASAT Conversations Podcast

The CASAT Conversations podcast is a resource for exploring behavioral health topics. These topics explore the complex connection between how our environment, behaviors and actions impact our health and wellbeing. With a wide-range of timely topics, CASAT Conversations is geared towards having meaningful conversations with people sharing their capacity for personal growth and change, along with expert educational insights.

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Learning Labs

Our Learning Labs are collections of curated references for each behavioral health topic to help increase subject literacy, knowledge, skills, and overall competence in providing high-quality, cutting-edge services.

The Catalyst Blog

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Resources

We share, re-purpose them, or create original information, resources, or tools that you can use right away. For that to work, we hope you will become part of the network that gives us input and feedback so you get what you need.

Recent Posts

Bidding Farewell: Grateful for the Journey and Love

After a distinguished 50-year clinical career, the author is stepping down from his role with CASAT Learning to embrace a “legacy stage” of life necessitated by aging and health. Throughout his journey, he became a champion for those often dismissed by the system, operating under the firm belief that “there are no throwaway clients” and specializing in reaching individuals deemed “impossible” or “difficult.” By rejecting client-blaming and focusing on authentic, collaborative engagement, he successfully empowered mandated and hopeless clients to find their own paths to change. While he is bidding an emotional farewell to his colleagues and the professional camaraderie he treasures, he leaves behind a wealth of resources—including his 2023 book and various educational media—as a final gift to the field, crediting his success to his mentors, his supportive family, and the resilient clients who served as his greatest teachers.

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More Than Just Saying “No”: Building a Life You Don’t Want to Escape From

This post explores a major shift in how we understand addiction: moving away from the “moral failure” and “rock bottom” mentalities of the past toward a model called Recovery Capital (RC).
Rather than focusing on what is “wrong” with a person, RC focuses on the strengths and resources they can build to sustain sobriety. The blog highlights three key takeaways from recent research. Ultimately, recovery is viewed not just as the absence of drugs or alcohol, but as the active presence of a healthy, supported, and purposeful life.

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The Anti-Resolution: Why We’re Ditching the “New Year, New Me” Checklist

This blog proposes the “Anti-Resolution” approach, a gentler alternative to the toxic “New Year, New Me” pressure that often harms those in recovery or navigating mental health challenges. Instead of setting rigid, binary goals that invite shame and failure, the post advocates for choosing broad “intentions” or themes that act as a compassionate compass rather than a strict map. It introduces the concept of the “Un-Resolution”—improving life by subtracting stressors and bad habits rather than adding overwhelming new tasks—and emphasizes applying the “One Day at a Time” principle to avoid the anxiety of year-long commitments. Ultimately, the piece encourages readers to prioritize protecting their peace over “fixing” themselves, reminding them that the version of themselves that survived the last year is already worthy.

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