Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Managing Your Substance Use Disorder provides clients with practical information and skills to help them understand and change their problems with alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs, such as marijuana, cocaine or methamphetamine, heroin or fentanyl, or non-prescribed addictive medications. The workbook is designed to be used in therapy or counseling and will help to focus on specific issues involved in stopping substance use and in changing behaviors that keep substance use problems active. The information presented is derived from research, clinical and recovery literature, and the authors many years of experience working with clients who have alcohol, tobacco, and other drug problems. It discusses the most effective and helpful recovery issues and change strategies from studies of cognitive-behavioral treatment, coping skills training, 12-step counseling, and relapse prevention. These treatment approaches focus on the importance of changing beliefs, thinking, relationships, and behaviors and learning skills to help clients stay sober and change their lives. The goals of this workbook are to help clients reach maximum treatment benefit by motivating then to develop and implement a personal change plan and to provide them with practical strategies and skills to cope with the most common problems and challenges encountered when substance use is stopped.
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The third edition of Managing Your Substance Use Disorder provides the reader with practical information and skills to help them understand and change a drug or alcohol problem.
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Managing Your Substance Use Disorder: Client Workbook is an interactive recovery guide that engages readers who have a substance use disorder in an active process of learning strategies to manage the daily challenges of sobriety and recovery and to reduce the risk of lapse and relapse. Designed to accompany Managing Substance Use Disorder: Practitioner Guide, this Workbook provides detailed information about substances of use, reader-friendly checklists, and engaging activities in order to personalize the reader's recovery plan. The book then reviews current trends in substance use and disorders, causes and effects of these disorders, substance related disorders, treatment approaches (medications and psychosocial), mutual support programs, and the impact of substance use on the family and concerned significant others, and integrates the best scientifically-supported interventions with the authors' extensive experiences as scientist-clinicians. This Workbook addresses the most common challenges faced by individuals with substance use disorders, such as managing cravings, resisting social pressures to use, coping with negative emotions and moods, building a social support network, involving family or concerned significant others, and reducing lapse and relapse risk.