Managing Your Substance Use Disorder

Managing Your Substance Use Disorder: Client Workbook is an interactive recovery guide that engages readers who have a substance use disorder in an active process of learning strategies to manage the daily challenges of sobriety and recovery and to reduce the risk of lapse and relapse. Designed to accompany Managing Substance Use Disorder: Practitioner Guide, this Workbook provides detailed information about substances of use, reader-friendly checklists, and engaging activities in order to personalize the reader's recovery plan. The book then reviews current trends in substance use and disorders, causes and effects of these disorders, substance related disorders, treatment approaches (medications and psychosocial), mutual support programs, and the impact of substance use on the family and concerned significant others, and integrates the best scientifically-supported interventions with the authors' extensive experiences as scientist-clinicians. This Workbook addresses the most common challenges faced by individuals with substance use disorders, such as managing cravings, resisting social pressures to use, coping with negative emotions and moods, building a social support network, involving family or concerned significant others, and reducing lapse and relapse risk.

Table of Contents

Overview of Substance Use Problems and Assessment
Chapter 1: Introduction and Plan for This Workbook
Chapter 2: Recognizing Your Substance Use Problem
Chapter 3: Recognizing Consequences of Your Substance Use
Change Issues and Strategies
Chapter 4: Treatment Settings for Substance Use Problems
Chapter 5: Stages of Change
Chapter 6: How to Use Therapy or Counseling
Chapter 7: Overview of Goal Planning
Chapter 8: Managing Cravings and Urges to Use Substances
Chapter 9: Managing Thoughts of Using Substances
Chapter 10: Managing Emotions
Chapter 11: Refusing Offers to Use Substances
Chapter 12: Dealing With Family and Interpersonal Problems
Chapter 13: Building a Recovery Support System
Chapter 14: Mutual Support Programs and Recovery Clubs
Chapter 15: Medications for Substance Use Disorders
Relapse Prevention, Progress Measurement, and Co-occurring Psychiatric Disorders
Chapter 16: Relapse Prevention: Reducing the Risk of Relapse
Chapter 17: Relapse Management: What to Do if You Lapse or Relapse
Chapter 18: Strategies for Balanced Living
Chapter 19: Measuring Your Progress
Chapter 20: Managing a Co-occurring Psychiatric Disorder
Appendix
References and Suggested Readings
About the Authors