Steven L. Jaffe

This workbook is intended for teenagers who use drugs and alcohol but for whom the amounts, frequency, and negative consequences are unrecognized. This workbook is an initial approach for helping teenagers become aware, both cognitively and emotionally, of the negative consequences of their drug and/or alcohol use. It is hoped that by seeing for themselves how not using can make their life better, teenagers will become motivated toward beginning treatment. This intervention workbook corresponds to the First Step of a 12-Step Program. It helps teenagers move from precontemplation to contemplation to determination according to the stages of change framework. The workbook should be used as part of a therapeutic relationship or program, with sensitivity to issues of confidentiality. Background about the workbook and suggestions for its use are provided in the accompanying Staff Manual. This is a package of 5.

A staff manual to accompany Adolescent Substance Abuse Intervention Workbook. It considers adolescent development and diagnosis, and provides a developmental model of recovery and change, 12-step programme principles, cognitive behavioural therapy, and psychodynamic theory.

This workbook provides a solid, familiar format for adults being treated for chemical dependency to write down their thoughts and express their conflicts. The book is designed to encourage patients not only to answer questions, but to ask them as well. It enables patients to examine their addiction in the context of their entire life structure. Step One helps the chemically dependent patient to identify the seriousness of his or her problem by writing it down. Step Two helps the patient to examine his or her irrational and self-destructive behaviour. Step Three aids the patient in creating new ways of thinking, enabling the realisation that there are aspects of their life that are out of control. The fourth step encourages reflection on the positive and negative experiences in the patient's life, and the fifth and final step helps the patient to verbalise what he or she has written in step four.

Problems with substance abuse and chemical dependency are epidemic in our adolescent population. This workbook provides a concrete structure that enables the chemically dependent adolescent to go through the first 5 of the 12 steps toward recovery. By encouraging the adolescent to answer the questions, write down his or her thoughts, and discuss his or her conflicts contained in this useful workbook, the cognitive-emotional process can begin. Step Workbook for Adolescent Chemical Dependency Recovery: A Guide to the First Five Steps is written at a relatively simple reading level so that it may be used by adolescents with chemical dependency as well as learning disabilities. This is a package of 5.