Integrating the 12 Steps into Addiction Therapy or Your Pregnancy Companion

Integrating the 12 Steps into Addiction Therapy: A Resource Collection and Guide for Promoting Recovery with CD-ROM

Author: James R Finley

All the resources needed to fully integrate a 12-step approach as part of your overall treatment program

Millions of Americans have at some time in their lives participated in a 12-step program for treatment of a chemical or non-chemical addiction. Clinicians recognize that these grass-roots efforts have a very high cure rate. However, little has been written on how to integrate these programs into a traditional therapy setting.

Integrating the 12 Steps into Addiction Therapy serves as an indispensable resource for clinicians treating addiction patients who are simultaneously enrolled in 12-step programs. This valuable text:

• Contains eight lesson plans and twenty-seven assignments

• Integrates in-depth discussion of 12-step programs with hands-on resources like homework assignments, treatment plan examples, and patient handouts

• Will also benefit 12-step program peer counselors

• Includes companion CD-ROM with fully customizable homework assignments, lesson plans, and presentations

Treating addictions–whether chemical or non-chemical–can be one of the most difficult challenges faced by mental health professionals. For many people, 12-step programs have played a critical role in helping them to manage their addictive behaviors. Integrating the 12 Steps into Addiction Therapy gives psychologists, therapists, counselors, social workers, and clinicians the tools and resources they need to fully utilize these peer therapy program techniques in treating a wide variety of addictions.

Table of Contents:

Sect. I	What to do and expect (and what not to do)	1
	Why integrate 12-step work into addiction treatment?	2
	Anonymity and confidentiality	8
	Ensuring that clients are participating effectively in 12-step activities	9
	Helping clients benefit from their 12-step programs	10
	Positions of 12-step programs on psychotherapy and medications	22
	Things 12-step programs can and can't do for clients	24
	Incorporating 12-step work into treatment planning	25
Sect. II	Homework assignments	27
	Understanding spirituality in 12-step programs	30
	Finding a home group	36
	Learning from recovery role models	42
	Finding and working with a 12-step sponsor	48
	12-steps meeting review/critique form	55
	Step 1 : understanding powerlessness	58
	Step 2 : finding hope	66
	Step 3 : deciding to turn it over	72
	Step 4 : personal inventory	82
	Step 5 : sharing the step-4 inventory	92
	Step 6 : becoming willing to change	96
	Step 7 : asking for change	100
	Step 8 : listing people harmed	104
	Step 9 : making amends	110
	Step 10 : continued inventory	114
	Step 11 : improving conscious contact	118
	Step 12 : carrying the message	122
	Special-occasion relapse prevention in 12-step recovery	126
	Using 12-step literature	132
	12-step recovery issues for young people	138
	12-step recovery issues for women	144
	12-step recovery issues for gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgendered people	150
	12-step recovery issues for people of non-Christian faiths	154
	12-step recovery issues for members of minorities	158
	12-step recovery issues in jail or prison	162
	12-step recovery issues for people with co-occurring mental/emotional and/or physical illnesses	167
	Understanding 12-step recovery for loved ones of people with addictions	174
Sect. III	Lesson plans	179
	What to expect in a 12-step group	181
	12-step meeting review and analysis	191
	Problems and solutions in early 12-step recovery	197
	The 12 steps, relationships, and work	209
	The 12 steps and financial self-management	217
	The 12 steps and emotional and mental problems	225
	The 12 steps and social life	233
	12-step relapse-prevention tools	241
App. A	Useful books and films related to 12-step work	249
App. B	The 12 steps and 12 traditions	255

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Your Pregnancy Companion: A Month-By-Month Guide to All You Need to Know Before, During and After Pregnancy

Author: Janis Graham

From choosing an obstetrician or a certified nurse-midwife, to essential techniques for successful feeding, 'Your Pregnancy Companion' is the most complete and up-to-date guide to this very special time you can find.

Library Journal

In this month-by-month account of pregnancy's progress, the author addresses pregnancy's impact on such key dimensions of a woman's life as her body, diet, workouts, feelings, and lifestyle, including worklife. Within this framework, she covers a diverse series of common concerns ranging from normal fetal development, prenatal tests, and RH factor to calf cramps, maternity leave, and premature labor. The result is a delight to read, as the material presented is remarkably well organized, thoroughly researched, and presented in a no-nonsense factual manner that never is condescending or oversimplified. Additional readings are suggested. Recommended for popular medical collections.-- Kathryn H. Car penter, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago