Guide to the First Five Steps of Chemical Dependency Recovery for Adults - Softcover

Jaffe, Steven L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1882103025 ISBN 13: 9781882103027

Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 1993

Synopsis

This workbook provides a solid, familiar format for adults being treated for chemical dependency to write down their thoughts and express their conflicts.

Step Workbook for Adult Chemical Dependency Recovery is designed to encourage patients not only to answer questions, but to ask them as well. It enables patients to examine their addiction in the context of their entire life structure. ; Step 1 helps the chemically dependent patient identify the seriousness of his or her problem by writing it down. Step 2 helps the patient examine his or her irrational and self-destructive behavior. Step 3 aids the patient in creating new ways of thinking, enabling the realization that there are aspects of one's life that are out of his or her control. Step 4 encourages reflection on the positive and negative experiences in the patient's life. Step 5 helps the patient verbalize what he or she has written in Step 4.

Step Workbook for Adult Chemical Dependency Recovery is an essential tool for every program providing treatment services for chemically dependent adults. This is a package of 5.

About this title

About the Author

Steven L. Jaffe, M.D., received his psychiatry training at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and his child psychiatry training at Emory University. He has been Editor of the Newsletter of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and President of the Georgia Council for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Jaffe if currently the Director of Adolescent Programs, Psychiatric and Chemical Dependency, at CPC-Parkwood Hospital and Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

From the Back Cover

This workbook provides a solid, familiar format for adults being treated for chemical dependency to write down their thoughts and express their conflicts.

Step Workbook for Adult Chemical Dependency Recovery is designed to encourage patients not only to answer questions, but to ask them as well. It enables patients to examine their addiction in the context of their entire life structure. - Step 1 helps the chemically dependent patient identify the seriousness of his or her problem by writing it down. - Step 2 helps the patient examine his or her irrational and self-destructive behavior. - Step 3 aids the patient in creating new ways of thinking, enabling the realization that there are aspects of one's life that are out of his or her control.- Step 4 encourages reflection on the positive and negative experiences in the patient's life.- Step 5 helps the patient verbalize what he or she has written in Step 4.

Step Workbook for Adult Chemical Dependency Recovery is an essential tool for every program providing treatment services for chemically dependent adults. This is a package of 5.

From the Inside Flap

This workbook provides a solid, familiar format for adults being treated for chemical dependency to write down their thoughts and express their conflicts.

Step Workbook for Adult Chemical Dependency Recovery is designed to encourage patients not only to answer questions, but to ask them as well. It enables patients to examine their addiction in the context of their entire life structure. Step 1 helps the chemically dependent patient identify the seriousness of his or her problem by writing it down. Step 2 helps the patient examine his or her irrational and self-destructive behavior. Step 3 aids the patient in creating new ways of thinking, enabling the realization that there are aspects of one's life that are out of his or her control. Step 4 encourages reflection on the positive and negative experiences in the patient's life. Step 5 helps the patient verbalize what he or she has written in Step 4.

Step Workbook for Adult Chemical Dependency Recovery is an essential tool for every program providing treatment services for chemically dependent adults. This is a package of 5.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1882103025
• ISBN 13: 9781882103027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 68