20-Aug-2010
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An in-depth look at the relevance of religious and spiritual issues to alcohol and drug use and abuse throughout the lifespan
Spiritual issues and forgiveness are oft-neglected topics in treatment programs for substance abusers. This unique book brings those underrated components of recovery to the forefront through current research, case studies, and the insight of experts in the field of spirituality as well as drug/alcohol treatment. It illustrates the important interrelationship among religiousness, spirituality, forgiveness, and alcohol and drug use and abuse throughout the lifespan. The contributors examine the effects of religiousness and spirituality on recovery in relation to more widely recognized supports. Each chapter is extensively referenced, and most include tables and/or figures that make difficult information easy to understand and work with.
Spirituality and Religiousness and Alcohol/Other Drug Problems: Treatment and Recovery Perspectives draws clear, important distinctions between religiosity and spirituality. It provides you with a clearly laid out conceptual framework for examining the relationship among spirituality/religiousness and alcohol/drug problems, and a theoretical model of forgiveness in regard to alcohol/drug abuse. This informative book also examines:
- the existing literature on the intersection of spirituality/religiousness and alcohol/drug issues
- addiction recovery across the lifespan
- connections among stress, quality of life, social support, spirituality and religiosity, and recovery
- how social supports, spirituality, religiousness, life meaning, and affiliation with 12-step fellowships affect the quality of life for people in recovery
- evidence-based forgiveness treatment
- alcohol abusers’ traits and how abusers function in the context of family
- Christian perspectives on alcohol/drug use and abusewith a chapter devoted to Protestant perspectives and treatment implications
- predictors of rehospitalization for homeless substance abusers, including spiritual well-being
- various dimensions of religious involvement and mental health outcomes among addicted women
- whether religiousness, as opposed to church attendance, is related to alcohol/drug consumption and delinquency
- the ties between religious variables and mental health in a high-risk population (chemically dependent pregnant or parenting women in a residential treatment program)
- . . . and a great deal more
This book is designed to be immediately useful to practitioners (social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, and ministers) who work with substance users and abusers, as well as to academicians and researchers involved with these topics. Please consider adding it to your professional, research, or teaching collection today!
Spirituality And Religiousness And Alcohol/other Drug Problems: Treatment and Recovery Perspectives
18-Aug-2010
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The Little Red Book evolved from a series of notes originally prepared as Twelve Step suggestions for AA beginners. It aids in the study of the book Alcoholics Anonymous and contains many helpful topics for discussion meetings. Its distribution is prompted by a desire to “carry the message to alcoholics” in gratitude of our daily reprieve from insanity or alcoholic death. Many groups, in meeting the AA need for instruction of new members, have adopted this brief summarization of the AA recovery program expounded in the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous, as an outline for study of that book. Worthwhile results have followed the inauguration of weekly classes devoted to guidance of new members in their quest for a better understanding of the Twelve Steps as a way of life for recovery from alcoholism. These classes, directed by qualified members, have created solidarity of understanding within our fellowship. They have brought a closer adherence to the Big Book, better understanding and application of its philosophy, more effective sponsorship and a much higher ratio of sobriety among our members. We hope The Little Red Book for Women opens new avenues of thought and helps the AA member arrive at his or her successful interpretation of the program. The Little Red Book for Women makes frequent reference to basic matter in Alcoholics Anonymous, fourth edition.
The Little Red Book For Women
11-Aug-2010
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A standard-setting book on intervention, Love First has helped tens of thousands of families, friends, and professionals create a loving and effective plan for helping those who suffer from addiction. This revised and expanded edition adds to the core material in this classic book with the most up-to-date scientific information and new intervention techniques for alcohol and other drug addictions–and an array of disorders.
Love First 2nd Edition
15-Jul-2010
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In Intervention: How To Help Someone Who Doesn’t Want Help, Dr. Vernon Johnson describes the process that has successfully motivated thousands of chemically dependent people to accept help. In simple terms, this book shows how chemical dependency affects those around the addicted person, and teaches concerned people how to help and how to do it right.
Intervention
08-Jul-2010
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The first in a series of three recovery guides for the first three years of sobriety, First-Year Sobriety uses the voices of many women and men who are struggling in the often baffling territory of their first year of sobriety to show that despite their differing experiences, all are united in the process of giving life without alcohol or other drugs a chance.These are people who are alternately amazed, appalled, delighted, depressed, illuminated, disturbed, or simply thrown by their first days, weeks, and months of sobriety. Kettelhack explores the challenges all seem to face: learning to break through loneliness, isolation, and fear; finding ways to deal with anger, depression, and resentment; and learning how to deal with a new and sometimes overwhelming happiness.
First Year Sobriety
29-Jun-2010
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With 12 Stupid Things that Mess Up Recovery, Dr. Allen Berger provides the means for targeting behaviors and attitudes that sabotage sobriety. It sounds so simple: Just stop drinking (or drugging, or binging, or gambling), and everything will be fine. The truth is, getting in touch with the destructive beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that sabotage recovery requires focus and willingness. In 12 Stupid Things that Mess Up Recovery, Dr. Berger will help you examine four culprits that underlie relapse: the nature of addiction, ignorance about one’s vulnerabilities, unreasonable expectations, and self-hate. Any or all of these factors can sabotage recovery, but through basic self-awareness you can move forward in building a life of contentment and fulfillment.
12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery
24-Jun-2010
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Two of today’s top addiction consultants guide families devastated by a loved one’s addiction. As countless families can attest, addiction is a disease that destroys families, not just individuals. Secrecy, depression, anger, and confusion are hallmark traits of addicted families. Addiction wrecks the family’s home life, consumes the family’s financial resources, and depletes the family’s emotional reserves. Now, having helped thousands of families confront addiction, two of the nation’s leading interventionists, Robert Poznanovich and Andrew T. Wainwright, have created a survival guide for families. With compelling case histories and real-life scenarios, the authors set forth a practical course of action for families to break free from the grip of addiction, a process that culminates with an intervention for the addict. The process liberates and forever changes the family. Even if the addict refuses treatment, truth about addiction has been spoken during the intervention and the family is free to move ahead with or without the addict.
It’s Not Okay to Be a Cannibal
22-Jun-2010
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Today’s top addiction consultants guide families devastated by a loved one’s addiction.
As countless families can attest, addiction is a disease that destroys families, not just individuals. Secrecy, depression, anger, and confusion are hallmark traits of addicted families. Addiction wrecks the family’s home life, consumes the family’s financial resources, and depletes the family’s emotional reserves. Now, having helped thousands of families confront addiction, two of the nation’s leading interventionists, Robert Poznanovich and Andrew T. Wainwright, have created a survival guide for families. With compelling case histories and real-life scenarios, the authors set forth a practical course ofaction for families to break free from the grip of addiction, a process that culminates with an intervention for the addict. The process liberates and forever changes the family. Even if the addict refuses treatment, truth about addiction has been spoken during the intervention and the family is free to move ahead— with or without the addict.
It’s Not Okay to Be a Cannibal: How to Keep Addiction from Eating Your Family Alive
22-Jun-2010
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What happens to the “we” of a family when one member opts for the blind and single-minded “me” of addiction? In an instructive, reassuring way, Craig Nakken explains just how families and couples who have spent years building a life together can lose their cohesive identity and meaning in the wake of addiction. The perfect starting point in the healing process, this book Reclaim Your Family From Addiction–also reminds us that recovery is possible–for individuals, couples, and whole families–if only we know what to do. With histories, personal stories, and the latest research, the book helps readers chart their own way out of the hell of addiction and back to the fullness of family by using principles that restore the “we” of lasting, loving relationships.
Reclaim Your Family From Addiction
12-Jun-2010
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About this Addiction Book:
Addiction Recovery and Cure – The Ultimate Tip Collection for Addiction Treatment and Regaining a Healthy Lifestyle…
This book if for people dealing with addiction and family members who wish to learn more about this condition.
Addiction is an issue affects all types of people from all walks of life. Not only is the addict affected, those people close to the addict will feel the destruction of addictive behavior. This book includes over 100 tips that have been compiled to give you information about different addictions and how you can begin your recovery or help someone who needs to be in recvovery.
Some of the tips included in this book include:
• The importance of understanding what addiction is all about.
• Understanding the stages of addiction and the stages of recovery.
• Information about the detox process.
• Information about treatment programs.
• How you can get the most out of treatment programs.
• The importance of personal goals.
• The importance of finding balance in your life.
• Dealing with denial.
• Getting fit both physically and mentally.
• The importance of finding your own personal power.
You will find these and many more tips in this well written, easy to follow book on addiction and recovery. A must read for anyone fighting addiction or seeking to help someone with addiction.
Addiction Recovery and Cure – The Ultimate Tip Collection for Addiction Treatment and Regaining a Healthy Lifestyle…
