The DBT Workbook for Alcohol and Drug Addiction
Skills and Strategies for Emotional Regulation, Recovery, and Relapse Prevention
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published:21st Feb '23
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This workbook offers DBT strategies tailored for individuals facing addiction and co-occurring mental health issues, promoting emotional regulation and recovery.
Written by clinical psychologist Laura Petracek, The DBT Workbook for Alcohol and Drug Addiction applies the principles of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to popular recovery programs for addiction. This workbook is particularly beneficial for individuals who are managing a mental illness alongside their addiction. It provides essential tools for regulating emotions, reducing anxiety and stress, maintaining sobriety, and ultimately rediscovering a sense of self.
Recovery from addiction can often feel overwhelming, especially when compounded by mental health challenges. By integrating DBT principles with the 12 Steps of addiction recovery, The DBT Workbook for Alcohol and Drug Addiction offers practical strategies for emotional regulation and self-management. This resource is designed to empower individuals to navigate their recovery journey with greater ease and confidence.
DBT combines elements of cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and distress tolerance skills, making it particularly suitable for those who experience intense emotions. The workbook explores various skills and strategies that align with traditional recovery programs, providing a fresh perspective on managing emotional distress and supporting both sobriety and mental well-being. Drawing from her professional and personal experiences with addiction recovery and bipolar disorder, Laura Petracek delivers a compassionate and insightful guide for those seeking to improve their lives.
The connection between mental health challenges and addiction is strong, complicates recovery, and is regrettably still associated with much stigma. In The DBT Workbook for Alcohol and Drug Addiction, Dr. Petracek helps readers to understand their struggles with mental illness and addiction, and to address those struggles through a combination of AA/NA and DBT skills. Drawing on her own personal experience, Petracek's warmth and compassion will make these ideas and skills more approachable for those in recovery and will remind people that they are not alone on their difficult journey. -- Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW, Psychotherapist, international speaker, and author of several DBT books, including The DBT Workbook for Emotional Relief
Dr. Petracek provides a step-by-step guide to DBT for anyone struggling with alcohol or drug addiction. This book is accessible, comprehensive and practical. A truly valuable resource! -- Elaine Beale, author of Write for Wellness: Write Your Way to Health, Happiness and Healing
Laura Petracek, Ph.D.'s work on connecting the evidence based, effective psychotherapy treatment of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) to the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous is a great addition for extra tools for people recovering from addiction. The 12 Steps are predicated on giving oneself over the process and following the program, and adding in DBT skills can help provide additional tools for supporting one's work through the 12 steps and deepening one's understanding of the Steps. The author's use of her own experience and how DBT added to her recovery is a great use of the values of AA/NA of being open, honest, vulnerable and using one's own process to allow others to take what they need and leave the rest in finding their ways through the 12 Steps. -- W. Keith Sutton, Psy.D. - Psychologist - Director of the Institute for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
ISBN: 9781839972522
Dimensions: 244mm x 172mm x 10mm
Weight: 351g
176 pages