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Raffaella McAllister, LSW, LCADC
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Title:
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Clinician - Full Time
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Since:
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2008
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Experience:
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Raffaella attended Monmouth University Undergraduate School of Social Work in West Long Branch, NJ and graduated, with
honors, with a Bachelor in Social Work. She was hired one month prior to graduating at Discovery Institute for Addictive
Disorders after completing her internship with them. She attended Fordham University Graduate School of Social Services in
Bronx, NY full-time while working at Discovery full-time, where she graduated with a Masters in Social Work. After Graduate
school, she obtained her (LSW) and is a became a Licensed Social Worker. She came to HDAP in 2008 and obtained her LCADC
in January 2010 and is now also a Licensed Clinical Alcohol & Drug Counselor. She continues to work on obtaining her LCSW.
When not at HDAP, she also teaches as an Adjunct Professor in the Monmouth University Graduate School of Social Work.
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Theory:
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Raffaella’s prefers Cognitive Behavioral with just a bit of Client-Centered in order to help her listen and try to
understand how things are from the client's point of view. Raffaella believes that in order for clients to make changes
in their life and to address their addictions, they must first recognize their consequences, belief systems, irrational
thought process/negative feelings, and patterns of behavior responses that keep them stuck in the addiction/relapse
process. She feels that positive behavior change stems from changing the way one thinks and perceives events that happen
to them. The more one continues to be rewarded for positive behavior, the more it promotes self- efficacy and a desire to
continue positive behavior.
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Hobbies:
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Raffaella enjoys hanging out and having fun with friends and her husband, Nick. She also enjoys sightseeing and traveling
in her locality, USA, and abroad. Her favorite vacations have been to Honolulu/Waikiki, Hawaii and to
Naples, Rome, Pompeii, Capri, Amalfi Coast, Italy where she visited family she had not seen in over 20 years.
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