Group Exercises for Substance Use Disorders Counseling - Softcover

Miller, Geri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 139428005X ISBN 13: 9781394280056

Publisher: Wiley, 2025

Synopsis

An expertly curated collection of effective group exercises for patients with addictions

In the newly revised second edition of Group Exercises for Substance Use Disorders Counseling, experienced addiction counselor, Geri Miller, delivers a practical collection of group therapy exercises for patients struggling with substance addictions. The author has drawn on over four decades of frontline experience treating addicted patients, as well as the latest research, evidence, and best practices, to curate a selection of group exercises that improve health outcomes among a wide variety of patient populations.

You’ll find useful group exercises accompanied by easy-to-understand instructions in an intuitively organized format. These exercises assist patients in the development of self-awareness of harmful behaviors and patterns and realistic strategies they can apply immediately to help address them.

They also help patients identify stressors and triggers and offer techniques to avoid or resist them. Inside the book:

• Practical group counseling exercises that work with patients from myriad backgrounds, including those belonging to especially vulnerable groups
• Easy-to-follow instructions for clinical practitioners, counselors, social workers, and other professionals conducting group therapy for addiction
• Complimentary PowerPoint resources to help educators in a classroom setting, as well as counselor supervisors conducting training

An essential and updated resource for mental health and addiction counselors, Group Exercises for Substance Use Disorders Counseling is an invaluable book for anyone involved in or studying substance abuse counseling and treatment.

About this title

About the Author

Geri Miller, Ph.D., ABPP, LP (NC), LCAS (NC), CCS (NC), MAC (NCCAP) is a Human Relations Trainer/Consultant. She taught in higher education from 1990 until she retired as Professor in 2022. Dr. Miller has worked in the mental health counseling field since 1976 and the SUD counseling field since 1979. In both fields she has been a counselor, educator, trainer, and researcher. She worked as a volunteer psychologist at the Watauga County Health Department for 25 years through December 2020. Since 2001, she has a history of working as a volunteer with the American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Services. Dr. Miller has published and presented research on counseling. She has published 8 books with Wiley, Inc.: “Incorporating Spirituality in Counseling and Psychotherapy” (2003), “Fundamentals of Crisis Counseling” (2011), “Group Exercises for Addiction Counseling” (2012), and “Learning the Language of Addiction Counseling (5th Edition)” (2021). She is a member of the American Counseling Association’s divisions of the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC) and the International Association of Addictions and Offender Counselors (IAAOC). Dr. Miller has served on the North Carolina Addictions Specialist Professional Practice Board.

From the Back Cover

A current collection of in-person, online, and hybrid group exercises for use by practicing substance use disorder practitioners

Now in its second edition, Group Exercises for Substance Use Disorders Counseling, is an up-to-date resource for prospective and practicing practitioners who work with clinical populations that struggle with substance use disorders (SUD) in a group setting. As an experienced mental health and SUD clinician, Geri Miller, Ph.D., presents a collection of tried-and-true group exercises in an easy-to-understand language and an easily accessible format.

The exercises address many of the common issues encountered by practitioners working with the diverse SUD population. The exercises enhance the SUD population’s self-awareness of their behaviors, conditions, and triggers as well as the stressors they experience. The exercises also assist the SUD population in their management of these areas thereby enhancing their recovery from the SUD.

Group Exercises for Substance Use Disorders Counseling offers:

• Practical, effective SUD group counseling exercises that work with a variety of individuals including especially vulnerable populations.
• Easy-to-follow instructions for clinical practitioners (including counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and social workers), engaged in working with the SUD population in the context of group therapy.
• Complimentary Instructor Website Teacher Resources [PowerPoints, Test banks, Considerations for Professors] as well as Student Website Resources [Cartoon Graphic Handout, Videos, Podcast] assist educators in a classroom setting as well as practitioners and their supervisors in a clinical setting.

Group Exercises for Substance Use Disorders Counseling is an excellent match for the work of mental health and SUD professionals who want to provide effective SUD treatment. It is also an excellent resource for students and trainees with an interest in working with the SUD population.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 139428005X
• ISBN 13: 9781394280056
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 144