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Higher Power: Seeking God in 12-Step Recovery
Par Douglas D. Himes. 2012
Recalling the Christian roots of Alcoholics Anonymous, Higher Power connects classic biblical teaching with contemporary 12-step practice. Each chapter draws…
inspiration from the Old and New Testaments and the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. Higher Powered is an excellent resource for anyone in recover trying to work through each step, from admitting our brokenness to surrendering to God - and through God's help becoming higher powered.Practicing Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: An Alternative Approach to Addictions
Par Patt Denning. 2004
A clinical psychologist argues for a new model for the treatment of clients with alcohol and substance abuse problems. Inviting…
clinicians to reexamine their beliefs about substance use as a disease or a moral failing, she states that drugs are used for many different reasons and with different outcomes. Emphasizing treatment of the whole person rather than the drug use alone, she offers concrete treatment strategies based on the idea of reducing harm done by drug use while respecting each client's life choices. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Harm Reduction: Pragmatic Strategies for Managing High-Risk Behaviors
Par G. Alan Marlatt. 2002
Harm reduction principles and strategies are designed to minimize the destructive consequences of illicit drug use and other behaviors that…
may pose serious health risks. The first major harm reduction text, this provocative and timely volume examines a wide range of current applications, from needle exchange and methadone maintenance programs, to alternative alcohol interventions and HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns. Insight is also offered into the often contentious philosophical and policy-related debates surrounding this growing movement.Treating Substance Abuse (2nd Edition)
Par Scott T. Walters, Jonathan Morgenstern, Frederick Rotgers. 2003
Presented to aid non-physicians in substance abuse treatment, 12 revised chapters offer discussions of theory and clinical practice in six…
major approaches to treatment: Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step, psychodynamic, marital/family, cognitive-behavioral, contingency management, and motivational approaches. After the paired theoretical/clinical chapters, two final contributions discuss pharmacotherapy and issues of integrating theory, research, and practice. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice
Par Maureen Mccormick. 2008
Substance Use Disorders In The U.S. Armed Forces
Par Committee on Prevention, Treatment, Diagnosis, Management of Substance Use Disorders in the U.S. Armed Forces. 2013
Problems stemming from the misuse and abuse of alcohol and other drugs are by no means a new phenomenon, although…
the face of the issues has changed in recent years. National trends indicate substantial increases in the abuse of prescription medications. These increases are particularly prominent within the military, a population that also continues to experience long-standing issues with alcohol abuse. The problem of substance abuse within the military has come under new scrutiny in the context of the two concurrent wars in which the United States has been engaged during the past decade--in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom) and Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn). Increasing rates of alcohol and other drug misuse adversely affect military readiness, family readiness, and safety, thereby posing a significant public health problem for the Department of Defense (DoD). To better understand this problem, DoD requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) assess the adequacy of current protocols in place across DoD and the different branches of the military pertaining to the prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of substance use disorders (SUDs). Substance Use Disorders in the U. S. Armed Forces reviews the IOM's task of assessing access to SUD care for service members, members of the National Guard and Reserves, and military dependents, as well as the education and credentialing of SUD care providers, and offers specific recommendations to DoD on where and how improvements in these areas could be made.The Mental Health and Substance Use Workforce for Older Adults
Par Jill Eden. 2012
At least 5. 6 million to 8 million--nearly one in five--older adults in America have one or more mental health…
and substance use conditions, which present unique challenges for their care. With the number of adults age 65 and older projected to soar from 40. 3 million in 2010 to 72. 1 million by 2030, the aging of America holds profound consequences for the nation. For decades, policymakers have been warned that the nation's health care workforce is ill-equipped to care for a rapidly growing and increasingly diverse population. In the specific disciplines of mental health and substance use, there have been similar warnings about serious workforce shortages, insufficient workforce diversity, and lack of basic competence and core knowledge in key areas. Following its 2008 report highlighting the urgency of expanding and strengthening the geriatric health care workforce, the IOM was asked by the Department of Health and Human Services to undertake a complementary study on the geriatric mental health and substance use workforce. The Mental Health and Substance Use Workforce for Older Adults: In Whose Hands? assesses the needs of this population and the workforce that serves it. The breadth and magnitude of inadequate workforce training and personnel shortages have grown to such proportions, says the committee, that no single approach, nor a few isolated changes in disparate federal agencies or programs, can adequately address the issue. Overcoming these challenges will require focused and coordinated action by all.The Everything Guide to Codependency: Learn to recognize and change codependent behavior
Par Jennifer Sowle. 2014
Break free of codependency and embrace your true self!Are you codependent? Do you make other people's problems your own? Do…
you find it hard to set boundaries and take care of your own needs? In this reassuring guide, Dr. Jennifer Sowle helps you learn how to identify your own destructive behavior, regain self-esteem, and set healthy boundaries in all types of relationships. Inside, you'll learn how to move beyond codependency by:Discovering patterns in yourself and others.Developing noncodependent language and communication skills.Learning to journal and practice new skills at home.Engaging your partner in change.Breaking the spell of codependency and discovering the real you. With The Everything Guide to Codependency, you can break the cycle of codependency and enabling. Dr. Sowle offers expert advice and practical techniques to help transform codependent relationships into healthy, fulfilling ones.The Verbally Abusive Relationship, Expanded Third Edition: How to recognize it and how to respond
Par Patricia Evans. 2010
In this fully expanded and updated third edition of the bestselling classic, you learn why verbal abuse is more widespread…
than ever, and how you can deal with it. You'll get more of the answers you need to recognize abuse when it happens, respond to abusers safely and appropriately, and most important, lead a happier, healthier life.In two all-new chapters, Evans reveals the Outside Stresses driving the rise in verbal abuse - and shows you how you can mitigate the devastating effects on your relationships. She also outlines the Levels of Abuse that characterize this kind of behavior - from subtle, insidious put-downs that can erode your self-esteem to full-out tantrums of name-calling, screaming, and threatening that can escalate into physical abuse.Drawing from hundreds of real situations suffered by real people just like you, Evans offers strategies, sample scripts, and action plans designed to help you deal with the abuse - and the abuser.This timely new edition of The Verbally Abusive Relationship puts you on the road to recognizing and responding to verbal abuse, one crucial step at a time!The Fear that Stalks: Gender-based Violence in Public Spaces
Par Lora Prabhu, Edited by Sara Pilot. 2014
This book is an attempt to understand the causes, nature and consequences of gender-based violence in public spaces. It provides…
a framework that locates gender based violence within the politics and dynamics of public space, and helps us to understand the commonality between these diverse forms of violence, ranging from sexual harassment, sexual assault, moral policing, 'honour' killing, acid throwing, witch hunting, parading naked, tonsuring, rape and homicide. The writers unpack and examine the idea of a 'public' space: although by and large a notional space, they begin by identifying it as the geographical space between the home and the workplace and then, go beyong this to look at the violation faced by homeless women and girls who live on the streets, as well as those who work in public spaces in the unorganised sector.Schedule Effects: Drugs, Drinking, and Aggression
Par J D Keehn, R M Gilbert. 1972
In Toronto in 1970 the Addiction Research Foundation held a symposium on schedule-induced and schedule-dependent phenomena. The Foundation's main concerns…
with drug-behaviour-environment interactions, but because it is difficult to consider these interactions in isolation from general behavioural phenomena, the symposium was arranged around topics that are not specific to drug effects. This book contains those contributions to the symposium that focused on phenomena associated with schedules of reinforcement. Most of the papers have been extensively revised for the purpose of this publication. Three kinds of schedule effect are examined in the book. Schedule dependent phenomena arise when the effect on behaviour of an operation, such as the administration of a drug, depends on the schedule of reinforcement maintaining the behaviour. Two aspects of these phenomena are treated in detail by J.W. McKearney, who emphasizes drug effects, and by D.E. Blackman, who concentrates on the intrusion of stimuli that signal electric shock. A second kind of schedule effect is discussed by T. Thompson and R. Pickens, who show that reinforcing drugs are subject to scheduling variables, in common with other reinforcements. The remaining chapters focus on schedule-induced phenomena, although other schedule effects are also considered. Behaviour is schedule-induced when it occurs as the result of the application of a reinforcement schedule to other behaviour without being specified in that schedule. J.D. Keehn discusses these phenomena in the context of behaviour that cannot be accounted for in terms of the simple reinforcement model. T.D. Hawkins and his collaborators report a series of hitherto unpublished experiments, including work on alcohol intoxication as a schedule-induced phenomenon. J.L. Falk reviews the studies of schedule induced behaviour, which he labels adjunctive, and provides an account that recognizes ethological analyses of related phenomena, a feature too of the chapter by W. Wuttke and N.K. Innis. The two final chapters are concerned with aggression induced by scheduling and other factors. R.R. Hutchinson and G. Emley examine the temporal relationships of the different kinds of behaviour that can occur when electric shock is delivered at frequent intervals, and describes the effects of various drugs on these relationships. R. Ulrich and his colleagues provide a comprehensive review of shock-induced aggression and its controlling variables. The book will be of interest to advanced students and professionals in psychology, pharmacology, and related disciplines.Out-Patient Treatment of Alcoholism: A Study of Outcome and Its Determinants
Par Gerhart Saenger, Donald L Gerard. 1966
This book reports the findings of a study of the treatment of alcoholism in the out-patient clinics and the related…
in-patient facilities of state-supported alcoholism programmes in the United States. The authors compared a number of clinics simultaneously, and were thus able to investigate the influence of a variety of treatment programmes on a variety of patients. They show that clinics play a valuable role in assisting patients who have retained social stability despite their problem by maintaining contact with such patients, but that they are rarely useful for modifying either drinking habits or other aspects of malfunctioning in the case of patients whose social stability has crumbled. The study further shows that improvement in drinking habits (either by abstinence or by controlled drinking) is related to what the clinic does and to changes in the patient's social and interpersonal environment outside the clinic.Chronic Alcoholism and Alcohol Addiction
Par R. J. Gibbins, B. W. Henheffer, A. Raison. 1953
This book is a survey of current literature on chronic alcoholism and alcohol addiction. The authors are interested, however, not…
only in those individuals who are unable to give up alcohol (i.e. the addicts), but also in the more numerous abnormal drinkers all of whom are potential secondary addicts, who have developed a physiological and ultimately also a psychological need in the proceed of habituation, but in whose management of life alcohol has not played an essentially dominant role.While You Quit: A Smoker's Guide to Reducing the Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke
Par William Dafoe, Theodore Fenske. 2009
Smoking doesn’t have to leave you at a dead end. This unique book provides insight, whether you are a current…
or past smoker, on how to reduce your risk for heart attack and stroke before it’s too late. Rather than asking you to quit smoking, Dr. Fenske instead asks you to make changes in your life while you quit, by focusing on how the cardiovascular system is susceptible to disease, and how its healthy function can be optimized independent of smoking. Humorous and informative, While You Quit asks you to take a series of small, intentional steps toward vascular health. Armed with a state-of-the-art perspective on vascular biology, you follow Peter, an overweight, cigarette-addicted patient, as he takes these small strides. You will see clearly how each improvement directly impacts his vital statistics - just as they will for you, even if quitting isn’t on your road map yet.The Mindful Path to Addiction Recovery: A Practical Guide to Regaining Control over Life
Par Lawrence Peltz. 2013
Mindfulness, the quality of attention that combines full awareness with acceptance of each moment, just as it is, is gaining…
broad acceptance among mental health professionals as an adjunct to treatment. Because at the heart of addiction is the fear of painful emotional states, addicts compulsively seek drugs and alcohol to avoid or escape emotional pain. Mindfulness, on the other hand, helps us develop greater acceptance and ease with life's challenges, as well as greater self-compassion. Here, Dr. Lawrence Peltz, who has worked as an addiction psychiatrist for more than two decades, draws from his clinical experience and on the techniques of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) to explain the fundamental dynamics of addiction and the stages of the recovery process, and also gives us specific mindfulness exercises to support recovery.Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Guidance and Reflections on Recovery from Eating Disorders
Par Judith D Banker, Aimee Liu. 2011
Full recovery from an eating disorder is possible. Despite what you may have been led to believe, most people with…
anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating disorder are able to completely restore their health and well-being. But how does this happen? Author Aimee Liu has woven together dozens of first-person accounts of recovery to create a break-through roadmap for healing from an eating disorder. Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives answers key questions including: How does healing begin? What does it feel like? What supports and accelerates it? Will I ever be free of worry about a relapse? Throughout the book are informative sidebars written by leading professionals in the field, addressing essential topics such as finding the right therapist, the use of medications, exploring complementary treatments, and how family members can help. Learn more at the author's website: www.aimeeliu.net.How to Be an Adult in Love: Letting Love in Safely and Showing It Recklessly
Par David Richo. 2013
We were made to love and be loved. Loving ourselves and others is in our genetic code. It's nothing other…
than the purpose of our lives--but knowing that doesn't make it easy to do. We may find it a challenge to love ourselves. We may have a hard time letting love in from others. We're often afraid of getting hurt. It is also sometimes scary for us to share love with those around us--and love that isn't shared leaves us feeling flat and unfulfilled. David Richo provides the tools here for learning how to love in evolved adult ways--beginning with getting past the barriers that keep us from loving ourselves, then showing how we can learn to open to love others. He provides wisdom from Buddhism, psychology, and a range of spiritual traditions, along with a wealth of practices both for avoiding the pitfalls that can occur in love relationships and for enhancing the way love shows up in our lives. He then leads us on to love's inevitable outcome: developing a heart that loves universally and indiscriminately. This transcendent and unconditional love isn't just for a heroic few, Dave shows, it's everyone's magnificent calling.Substance Abuse
Par Richard D. Urman, Nalini Vadivelu, Alan David Kaye. 2015
This book is written for any clinician who encounters substance abuse in a patient and wonders what to do. Experts…
from a cross-section of specialties and health professions provide up-to-date, evidence-based guidance on how non-expert clinicians can recognize, understand, and approach the management of substance abuse in their patients. They detail the range of treatments available and whether and how they work. The central importance of using a carefully selected multimodal approach that is tailored to the individual patient is emphasized throughout and illustrated in case scenarios from actual clinical practice.Reimagining Advocacy: Rhetorical Education in the Legal Clinic (RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric #8)
Par Elizabeth C. Britt. 2018
Domestic violence accounts for approximately one-fifth of all violent crime in the United States and is among the most difficult…
issues confronting professionals in the legal and criminal justice systems. In this volume, Elizabeth Britt argues that learning embodied advocacy—a practice that results from an expanded understanding of expertise based on lived experience—and adopting it in legal settings can directly and tangibly help victims of abuse.Focusing on clinical legal education at the Domestic Violence Institute at the Northeastern University School of Law, Britt takes a case-study approach to illuminate how challenging the context, aims, and forms of advocacy traditionally embraced in the U.S. legal system produces better support for victims of domestic violence. She analyzes a wide range of materials and practices, including the pedagogy of law school training programs, interviews with advocates, and narratives written by students in the emergency department, and looks closely at the forms of rhetorical education through which students assimilate advocacy practices. By examining how students learn to listen actively to clients and to recognize that clients have the right and ability to make decisions for themselves, Britt shows that rhetorical education can succeed in producing legal professionals with the inclination and capacity to engage others whose values and experiences diverge from their own.By investigating the deep relationship between legal education and rhetorical education, Reimagining Advocacy calls for conversations and action that will improve advocacy for others, especially for victims of domestic violence seeking assistance from legal professionals.Ordinary Recovery: Mindfulness, Addiction, and the Path of Lifelong Sobriety
Par William Alexander, Kevin Griffin. 2010
The key to ongoing freedom from alcoholism or any other kind of addiction is right before us, here and now,…
in the ordinary and perfect present moment. The problem is that addictions are often the result of our efforts to escape living in the present in the first place. Bill Alexander's unique approach uses mindfulness, story, and meditation to help alcoholics and others learn to come back to the present moment and find healing there.Emerging scientific research suggests that mindfulness (a nonjudgmental awareness of our moment-to-moment experience) can help prevent addiction relapse. Ordinary Recovery is a revised edition of Alexander's book Cool Water, with a new foreword, a new preface by the author, updates throughout the book, and a new resources section.