A picture book to help children understand the loss of a loved one to drug overdose. Often, children who lose a loved one to overdose are not truthfully told what happened to the person who died, because of the stigma associated with this type of death. They often assume that the death was their fault (rather than that it was the symptom of a ......
A life-changing book for anyone caught in the whirlpool of a behavioral addiction.
At some point in our lives, we all engage in behaviors that are risky, irrational, or unwise. We might find it exciting and temporarily rewarding to gamble on the lottery or impulsively buy an expensive gadget. But just as ......
Substance Abuse Counselors: A Practical Career Guide will help you determine if this is the right career for you and what skills and educational background you need to succeed in this field, and it includes interviews with substance abuse counselors currently working in the field.
At some point in our lives, we all engage in behaviors that are risky, irrational, or unwise. We might find it exciting and temporarily rewarding to gamble on the lottery or impulsively buy an expensive gadget. But just as substances like alcohol and narcotics have the potential to become addictive, so do certain behaviors. A person addicted ......
Jay Haley begins with a brief overview of Erickson's ideas on alcoholics followed by a discussion with Erickson on a number of cases highlighting his interventions. Erickson describes one case where he helped an alcoholic's wife feel less helpless by instructing her to take a sum of money equal to the amount her husband spent on liquor and using ......
Pathways to Self-Discovery and Change: A Guide for Responsible Living - The Participant's Workbook, Second Edition provides a written and richly illustrated format through which clients can better understand and reflect on each of 32 (approxi-mately 90 to 120 minutes in length) youth-focused CBT treatment sessions. Pathways to Self-Discovery and Change supplies clients with a visual and written record of all treatment objectives, content information, modeling and role-plays, discus-sion points, interactive exercises, and reflective assign-ments and a place to record their ideas, insights, short- and long-term goals, and progress during the entire treatment episode. The Participant's Workbook is geared to a broad range of reading and conceptual abilities. Using comic strip illustrations and gripping stories (presented through the narrative voice of teen-agers who experience a variety of problems with sub-stance abuse, criminal conduct, and mental health issues), clients are engaged in active discussion about the situations, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that have become embroidered in their patterns of sub-stance abuse and criminal conduct.
