The Twelve-Step Facilitation Handbook: A Systematic Approach to Early Recovery from Alcoholism and Addiction - Hardcover

Nowinski, Joseph; Baker, Stuart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0029232252 ISBN 13: 9780029232255

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1992

Synopsis

Tap into the power of twelve-step programs

This book provides the information, advice, and tools needed to encourage chemically depAndent clients to take advantage of the healing power of twelve-step programs. Filled with illustrative examples, the book maps out effective techniques that help clients develop a sense of acceptance and incorporate the twelve-step philosophy into action.

This updated paperback edition also includes information on the clinical effectiveness of twelve-step facilitation and its success with Project MATCH and the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism?a nationwide collaborative study of treatment for alcoholism and alcohol abuse.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

The Twelve-Step Facilitation Handbook provides clinicians with the information, advice, and tools they need to encourage chemically depAndent clients to take advantage of the healing power of twelve-step programs, the proven most-effective treatment for addictive behavior of all kinds. Filled with illustrative examples, the book maps out effective techniques that help clients develop a sense of acceptance and incorporate the twelve-step philosophy into action. In addition, the authors show clinicians how to integrate these time-tested principles into their work and help their clients with issues of denial, enabling, surrAnder, and codepAndency.This updated paperback edition also includes information on the clinical effectiveness of twelve-step facilitation and its success with Project MATCH and the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism?a nationwide collaborative study of treatment for alcoholism and alcohol abuse.

From the Back Cover:

A handbook for all clinicians who need to tap into the power of twelve-step programs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0029232252
• ISBN 13: 9780029232255
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240