In addition to the importance of the community as a primary agent of change, a second fundamental TC principle is self-help.. Self-help implies that the individuals in treatment are the main contributors to the change process. Mutual self-help means that individuals also assume partial responsibility for the recovery of their peers -- an important aspect of an individual's own treatment.
Regulation Z protects people when they use consumer credit. Weâre working on incorporating amendments to this regulation. In the meantime, please review CFPB rules recently published in the Federal Register.
Normalization usually means transforming the data you are working with to a common frame of reference. I can give you a good example of data normalization for one of the areas I work in a lot. It is a function called the Z-Score. What it does is allows you to convert and data that is a Normal Distribution into a frame of reference where the Mean is Zero and the variation is expressed in standard deviations. The reason that data is usually normalized is that it takes out the matter of scale in the data and allows as much as possible an âapples to applesâ comparison of data.