The Substance Abuse & Recovery Workbook - Self-Assessments, Exercises & Educational Handouts (Mental Health & Life Skills Workbook Series) - Softcover

John J. Liptak; Ester R.A. Leutenberg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570252254 ISBN 13: 9781570252259

Publisher: Whole Person Associates, Inc, 2008

Synopsis

Reproducible Self-Assessments, Substance Abuse Worksheets, Exercises and Educational Handouts

The Substance Abuse and Recovery Workbook contains self-assessments, substance abuse worksheets, exploratory mental health group activities, reflective journaling exercises and educational handouts all reproducible to help participants discover their habitual and ineffective methods of managing substance abuse, and to explore new ways for bringing about healing.

The book contains five sections:

• Substance abuse helps individuals to determine the level of their addiction.
• Addictive personality helps individuals examine personality traits that predispose them to various addictions.
• Codependency characteristics helps individuals measure how well they fulfill the normal responsibilities of adult life, how they can identify their feelings of inadequacy, and leads them to explore things that are lacking in their life.
• Relapse warning signs helps individuals identify the changes in thinking, feeling, and behavior that accompany relapse.
• Substance abuse cessation helps individuals get a clearer picture of the excuses they may be using to continue their abuse of substances.

An excellent resource for mental health group activities, including substance abuse worksheets.

Addictions come in many shapes and forms. The assessments, substance abuse worksheets, and mental health group activities help participants deal with a wide variety of addictions including:

• Drug and alcohol
• Caffeine
• Tobacco products
• Computers
• Gambling
• And more

There are many other types of addictions including sexual, eating, and shopping, to name a few. Although The Substance Abuse and Recovery Workbook is geared toward people suffering from substance abuse issues, many of the pages might be applicable to populations suffering from some of the other addictions.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. John J. Liptak, EdD is a nationally-recognized author of career and counseling assessments, journal articles, and books. His extensive experience over the past twenty years working with mental health patients and offenders has led to the publication of 22 assessment instruments, four books, and numerous journal articles.

Ester R. A. Leutenberg, co-founder and former vice-president of Wellness Reproductions & Publishing, has a strong commitment to the mental health profession. She continues to have a passion for developing therapeutic products that help facilitators help their clients.

Edition details

• Publisher: Whole Person Associates, Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570252254
• ISBN 13: 9781570252259
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Illustrator: Amy Brodsky
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 122