Substance Abuse and Recovery Workbook: Self-Assessments, Exercises and Educational Handouts (Mental Health & Life Skills Workbook Series) - Softcover

The Substance Abuse & Recovery Workbook contains self-assessments, exploratory activities, reflective journaling exercises and educational handouts to help participants discover their habitual and ineffective methods of managing substance abuse, and to explore new ways for bringing about healing. The book contains five sections that help individuals: determine the level of their addiction, examine personality traits that predispose them to various addictions, measure codependency characteristics, understand relapse warning signs, and identify excuses they may be using to continue their abuse of substances.

Dr John Liptak, EdD, is a nationally-recognized author of career and counseling assessments, journal activities, and books. His extensive experience over the past twenty years working with students, mental health patients, job search clients,a and offenders, has led to the publication of 22 assessment instruments, four books, and numerous journal articles. Ester Leutenberg, co-founder of Wellness Reproductions & Publishing, has a strong committment to the mental health projession. She continues to have a passion for developing therapeutic products that help facilitators help their clients in a multitude of mental health issues.