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Twelve Step Sponsorship: How It Works
: :Passing it on is a key concept in the Twelve Step community and many of the traditions and knowledge of the Twelve Step recovery program have been passed down by word-of-mouth from one generation of sponsors to the next. Twelve Step Sponsorship effectively takes this knowledge and tradition and applies it to a working manual for sponsors, guiding them through their role in reaching out and helping new program members. Designed as a 'how-to' program for sponsors, Twelve Step Sponsorship offers: reading assignments common ...
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From the First Bite: A Complete Guide to Recovery from Food Addiction
: :Renowned therapist, eating disorder specialist and recovering food addict Kay Sheppard helps countless individuals win their battles over food addiction-people for whom diets, pills and purging have become a way of life. In 1993, her groundbreaking book, Food Addiction: The Body Knows, explained the illness of food addiction from the physiological origins through recovery. Today, obesity is on the rise. In addition to the 300,000 overweight people in this country, millions more who may not look overweight are unable to control their eating. Sheppard's ...
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Getting Them Sober: You Can Help! (Getting Them Sober)
: :Toby Rice Drews draws upon long experience as a therapist to explore the day-by-day practicalities of getting loved ones sober. In the process she maintains professionalism without sacrificing warmth or human sympathy. Forty-one chapters are filled with practical suggestions for coping including being gentle with yourself; don't pour out the booze; use tough love. This book is a blessing for anyone who has to live with an alcoholic.
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Drugs in American Society
: :Goode's Drugs in American Society 7/e is a well-respected, brief investigation of the full range of psychoactive drug use; from legal, medical and perscription use to criminal, recreational use and from casual use to addiction. Objective pro and con accounts on important issues like treatment, education, rehabilitation, and legalization give students a thorough understanding of the topics. The new seventh edition continues to provide the most balanced and up-to-date coverage in an accessible, engaging style.
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Substance Abuse: Information for School Counselors, Social Workers, Therapists, and Counselors
: : Substance Abuse, Second Edition continues to provide counselors, social workers, and students with a detailed overview of the alcohol-and-other-drug field. The new edition provides updated coverage and clinical examples to reflect the rapid changes in this area. New information includes the discussions of the latest edition of the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory, co-occurring disorders, and a section on the effect of managed care on professional ethics. The authors present balanced coverage of different treatment models as well as objective discussions of the ...
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Addiction Treatment Homework Planner (Practice Planners)
: :Help clients suffering from chemical and nonchemical addictions develop the skills they need to work through problems The Addiction Treatment Homework Planner, Third Edition provides you with an array of ready-to-use, between-session assignments designed to fit virtually every therapeutic mode. This easy-to-use sourcebook features: * Updated assignments, 10 new assignments in five new problem areas, and new secondary exercises for many problems * 88 ready-to-copy exercises covering the most common issues encountered by clients suffering from chemical and nonchemical addictions * A quick-reference format--the ...
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The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul
: :'Letting go is the bottom-line key to happiness,' states Hugh Prather. And in The Little Book of Letting Go, he offers a simple three-step process for shedding prejudices, preconceptions, and prejudgments and facing each moment with openness and enthusiasm. Prather first explains why it is essential to learn to let go and then outlines a 30-day plan for spiritual renewal. Finally, he offers specific techniques for getting a grip on habitual reactions, the need to control, and the addiction to conflict. Review:Bestselling author ...
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Love to Eat, Hate to Eat: Breaking the Bondage of Destructive Eating Habits
: :More than 80 percent of all Americans have been on a diet at some point in their lives. Low fat, low carb, high protein—you name it—they’ve tried it. Isn’t there a better way to break the cycle in the battle of the bulge? After years of futile dieting, readers know there’s more to weight control than what they eat. Having discovered the power that food has over their lives, counselor Elyse Fitzpatrick, author of Overcoming Fear, Worry, and Anxiety, helps them: identify destructive eating ...
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders
: :This book provides the first comprehensive guide to the practice of 'enhanced' cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E), the latest version of the leading empirically supported treatment for eating disorders. Written with the practitioner in mind, the book demonstrates how this transdiagnostic approach can be used with the full range of eating disorders seen in clinical practice. Christopher Fairburn and colleagues describe in detail how to tailor CBT-E to the needs of individual patients, and how to adapt it for adolescents and patients who require hospitalization. ...
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Letting Go: A 12-Week Personal Action Program to Overcome a Broken Heart
: :Are you crying over sad songs? Seeing his or her face in every crowd? Aching with loneliness and hoping the phone will ring? Feeling that no one else can give your life meaning? Losing a loved one is the most devastating crisis of intimate living. It can jeopardize your health... even your life. You might think only passing time will ease your pain, but now you can begin to end the hurt today. Within three months you can erase painful memories, regain control of ...
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