The Relapse Prevention Workbook For Youth In Treatment

"Chemically dependent adolescents have a tendency to relapse because of problems they experience at home, school, and with their friends. These problems activate urges and cravings to use alcohol and drugs. The 'Adolescent Relapse Prevention Workbook' first reviews a list of common adolescent Relapse Warning Signs. The adolescent then selects and personalizes a warning sign that is likely to increase the risk of relapse and describes specific situations in which this warning sign might occur. The adolescent learns to identify the irrational thoughts, unmanageable feelings, self-destructive urges, and self-defeating behavior that leads to alcohol and drug use. New ways of thinking, feeling, managing urges, and behaving are learned that promote recovery and present relapse."--Publisher description.

This guide is for anyone who has stopped using alcohol or other drugs and wants to stay sober and drug free. Successful sobriety involves more than just the desire not to drink or use "" it also involves hard work. Here you'll find the tools you need to begin. This workbook is designed to help you stay sober. It is not meant to take the place of a Twelve Step group, counseling, or an aftercare program. It is to be used in conjunction with them. Whether you were addicted to cocaine, heroin, marijuana, alcohol, prescription drugs, or any other mind-altering chemical, the tools offered in this guide are meant to help you avoid relapse.

Working through your addiction recovery process? This book will work as your personal addiction treatment planner. It is not just one of the regular recovery books, it is a relapse prevention workbook that you can use together with your recovery bible. Because of the manner in which you will use it, it is essentially a relapse prevention therapy workbook even though it offers no therapy. This relapse prevention practice uses a simple strategy that will help you to develop a specific plan of action and be aware of your high relapse risk situations. If you are going through relapse prevention therapy, relapse prevention counseling or addiction counseling, this workbook has daily practical exercises that can be used in group counseling or individual setting. You will learn gain new coping skills used cognitive behavioral therapy for staying sober and for relapse prevention. This Relapse Prevention Practice Workbook is designed for people in recovery from alcohol or other drug addiction who have a history of relapse, or fear they might relapse. This is a simple workbook for addiction recovery, a guide to coping with triggers that lead back to addictive behaviors. This book will lead you to: Freedom from your addictions, a new approach to addiction and recovery, a strategy to help you to overcome addiction; and a guide for relapse prevention. If you are going through cognitive behavioral therapy, this workbook will be your guide to staying sober. Use it as a relapse prevention therapy workbook for addiction counseling and addiction recovery. Although this workbook was designed to help men and women who are in their fourth quarter or fourth 90 days of their first year of recovery from substance abuse and other compulsive lifestyles who have a desire to prevent relapse in their lives, it will work for you no matter what phase of addiction recovery you are in. If you relapsed last time, here is the antidote for preventing relapse and promoting you addiction recovery. Relapse Prevention Workbook: Your Third Quarter Sobriety Inventory. For those in recovery, it will be the perfect addiction recovery gift. If you are an adolescent or working with adolescents, this will be a perfect adolescent relapse prevention workbook. Substance abuse is indeed a problem in society, particularly among adolescents who are at risk. This Relapse Prevention Practice will guide you towards whole person sobriety. Please note: This book is part of the Relapse Prevention Practice Sequential. All the books in this sequential have basically the same text, provided for your convenience, to ease your transition from one 90 day phase to another. The sequential is as follows: Relapse Prevention Practice: A Sobriety Workbook for the first 90 Days Relapse Prevention Practice: The Second Quarter Sobriety Workbook Relapse Prevention Workbook: The Third Quarter Sobriety Inventory Relapse Prevention Workbook: The Fourth Quarter Sobriety Inventory

*2013 International Book Awards Winner in Psychology/Mental Health (http://www.prweb.com/) Substance abuse continues to be a problem in society, particularly among adolescents, who are exposed at younger ages to new and stronger drugs with higher addictive potential and greater availability. In response, award-winning teen addictions clinician and research expert Dr. Jennifer Bruha has created an insightful and innovative new workbook that helps counselors, parents and adolescents themselves deal with the challenges of teen addiction and craft a realistic plan for change. The Adolescent Relapse Prevention Planner contains a variety of educational information, discussion topics and exercises around substance abuse that can be used both for individuals and groups. The writing tone, as well as the structure of the exercises, are geared to the teen level; the entire process is designed to be intriguing, thought-provoking, psycho-educational and even fun - making treatment and the recovery process more personally empowering, manageable and more achievable. Bruha addresses recovery from addiction through the stages of change, from overcoming denial and acknowledging that they have a problem with substance abuse; learning more about drugs and exploring the short- and long-term consequences; examining ways to quit, and how to set up structures to prevent relapse; and maintaining a healthy lifestyle every day, then every week and every month. The Adolescent Relapse Prevention Planner offers several unique components not available in other recovery literature, including: Exercises and discussion topics at the end of each section that can be adapted for individuals or groups Drug education, including the short- and long-term health effects of stimulants, depressants and hallucinogens The Adolescent Relapse Prevention Examples and stories using real-life teen situations such as peer pressure, relationships, emotions, impulsiveness and honest communication Family and genetics issues in substance abuse and addiction, including a section on making a family tree to identify family system patterns in substance abuse, mental health problems and trauma Graphic of the cycle of addiction which clearly illustrates the need to step out of self-defeating behaviors and relationships Self-care, they key to creating real change; including discussions and exercises on mindfulness (a burgeoning topic in psychology and addiction research) "In this high-stress world, where temptations are everywhere. . . adolescents search for that quick fix to escape from reality," Bruha writes in the book's introduction. "Unfortunately for many, that desire for a quick fix leads to substance abuse and even addiction, which impacts puberty and adolescent development physically, psychologically and emotionally. This presents unique challenges in treatment and recovery. This workbook addresses the challenges adolescents face in their own recovery, regardless of where they fit in the stages of change process."