Repeat After Me offers those who were raised in dysfunctional families characterized by abuse, addiction, other compulsive behaviors, or mental illness. This remarkable self-help workbook, takes the reader through a process of letting go of hurtful beliefs and behaviors. While insight is often the precursor to change, people need to develop skills that make change occur. Adults children tend to repeat the life scripts of their challenged, troubled families as a result of internalized beliefs and behaviors that were either modeled for them or were a part of their survival strategy. Dr. Claudia Black, world renown expert on dysfunctional families, articulates a four step process for readers to heal the wounds of their past: 1. Explore their past, for the purpose of owning the losses and grieving the pain associated with past history. 2. Connect the past history to present day life. 3. Identify and challenge internalized beliefs, differentiating between beliefs that are healthy and those useful that are self-defeating and need to be let go. 4. Learn and practice skills, focusing on the basics such as learning to listen, identifying needs and options, identifying and expressing feelings, defining successes, establishing healthy boundaries, recognizing intrusive behavior, creating healthy rituals, identifying strengths, and developing realistic expectations. This is an excellent resource to aid therapists, counselors, and other helping professionals in their work with clients to help them become aware of how their family system affected them and grow beyond it.

Repeat After Me

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Claudia Black

Addiction & Recovery

Central Recovery Press

This book is a valuable aid to counselors, mental health practitioners and health care providers who are working with clients whose anger is causing difficulties in significant areas of their lives. These difficulties may range from how they view and feel about themselves, to parenting skills, partner relationships, job performance, legal issues and overall health. With the foundation of good client assessment and intervention, Anger Strategies will be of great assistance in working with these clients. Some clients may be participating in an anger management group as a consequence of domestic violence or other illegal behaviors that have arisen from their inappropriate expression of anger. Others may be in individual, couples, or family therapy and their anger becomes identified as a crucial clinical issue. Irrespective of the manner in which clients have come to you, their anger has become distorted and twisted and is conveyed in ways that create shame and blame. While some clients are more motivated to change than others, the strategies in this book will assist in both motivation and change. This workbook is composed of seven sections with 42 sessions containing didactic information, reproducible handouts and audio CD. Section titles are: Anger History Strategies Cognitive Strategies Behavioral Strategies Addiction Strategies Affective Strategies Spiritual Strategies Closing Strategies A sampling of the sessions included are: Anger's Many Faces - Roles of Anger - Family Gift- Distorted Thinking Styles - Respecting Others - Triggers - Outside Influences - Substances &amp; Anger - Relapse Connection - Hidden Feelings - Practicing Spirituality - Healing &amp; Recovery Tools - Moving On with New Skills. In many of the strategies sections, ideas and formats are presented for structured interventions. The use of handouts in the form of written exercises, checklists, sentence stems, structured dialogues and/or art activities is an integral part of this therapeutic technique. All handouts are designed for clinicians to reproduce and use without restriction as to copyright permission. The audio CD, Imageries, offers structured meditations for recovery. The disc contains four imageries: Relaxation Exercise, Inner Child Affirmation, Inner Source of Wisdom, and Letting Go and Receiving. It can be used in a group or individual setting.

Anger Strategies: Practical Tools for Professionals Treating Anger

Written specifically for children ages 4 to 8, this brightly illustrated book candidly tackles the confusion and fear children face when a parent enters treatment. With vibrant illustrations by Mike Motz and a parent guide page included, parents now have a helpful tool to ease children's apprehension when someone they love must confront reality.

Mommy's Gone to Treatment

Crosson, Denise D.

Beautifully written reflective narratives address assets that help build character as the old way of living is shed.

Of Character: Building Assets in Recovery

Alternative Medicine

In this sequel to Mommy's Gone To Treatment, Janey learns to face some of the challenges a family must confront when a parent returns from addiction treatment as the whole family adjusts to a new way of life. Includes a parent guide to help talk with children about addiction and treatment and what happens after a parent/loved one returns.

Mommy's Coming Home from Treatment

Poignant and moving stories from recovering addicts about how the unconditional love of their pets brought them from the horrors of active addiction to a life filled with hope and healing. Includes information on the disease of addiction with supporting medical research data throughout.

Tails of Recovery: Addicts and the Pets That Love Them

Schenck, Nancy A.

Religion & Spirituality

Through a combination of recovery-oriented writing prompts and motivational quotes pulled from CRP's most successful self-help titles, this specialized journal promotes healing by offering those with chronic pain the perfect space to express their thoughts and feelings about the pain recovery process.

My Pain Recovery Journal

Editors of Central Recovery Press, The

Diseases & Physical Ailments

A thoughtful and practical guide based on the author's experiences of building her spirituality by examining (and changing) her own motives and actions in daily life in order to get and stay spiritually fit in twelve-step recovery. Those interested in becoming more spiritually fit can utilize this book and the easy-to-perform actions it presents in their everyday lives.

The Soul Workout: Getting and Staying Spiritually Fit

Moore, Helen H.

Written by a distinguished team of authors experienced in various areas of chronic pain management and addiction treatment, this comprehensive workbook was developed for anyone struggling with chronic pain and dependence on opioids or other painkillers. Based on a program that has proven highly successful in a treatment setting.

Pain Recovery: How to Find Balance and Reduce Suffering from Chronic Pain

Pohl, Mel

Szabo Jr., Frank J.

Shiode, Daniel

Hunter, Ph.D. Robert

Likeable Gabe makes the journey from being an almost friendless, unhappy, and skeptical young boy reeling from mistreatment at the hands of his addicted father and the effects the disease of addiction have had on his family, to a hopeful, happy youngster who takes pride in his dad's greatest accomplishment: recovery.

The Secret of Willow Ridge: Gabe's Dad Finds Recovery

Parenting & Relationships

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