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Status:Available Inhalant Prevention Resource Guide
Published: 2001
An inhalant abuse prevention cirriculum for grades K-12. Covers the scope of abuse, abusable products, chemical ingredients in inhalants, policy approaches to prevention, school drug policy, reasons for abuse, methods of abuse, effects, signs, symptoms, a.. Details >>
Status:Available Addictions Counseling
Published: 1992
A counselor's handbook which is both readable and comprehensive. Significantly, the recovery methods of AA and rational emotive therapy are shown to be complementary, an approach the author has used successfully in her own practice... Details >>
Status:Available Another Chance: Hope and Health for the Alcoholic
Published: 1981
This helpful guide for physicians, counselors, lawyers, ministers, and other helping professionals who must deal with the difficult problems of alcoholics and their families is easy enough to be read by a layperson... Details >>
Status:Available Kids' Power
Published: 1989
Healing games for children of alcoholics which have been kid-tested with young (ages 6-12) children. Helps kids to step back and look at situations with safety and provide the means to express things they wouldn't feel safe expressing any other way... Details >>
Status:Available Parenting for Prevention: How to Raise a Child to Say No to Alcohol/Drugs
Published: 1988
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Status:Available Turning Troubled Kids Around: The Complete Student Assistance Program for Secondary Schools
Published: 1998
Step 1-The Problem: students' relationships w/ alcohol & other drugs. Step 2-Answers to problems that stem from these relationships: Mainly, the SAP. Steps 3 thru 9-How to get an SAP up & running, including tips for evaluating the program... Details >>
Status:Available Treating Adolescent Substance Abuse: Understanding the Fundamental Elements
Published: 1994
Dr. Ross outlines screening assessment & diagnostic procedures that accurately reflect the most important pathologic psychoemotional & behavioral features of substance abusing adolescents. He also shows the need for parents to be at the core of treatment... Details >>
Status:Available Understanding and Treating Adolescent Substance Abuse
Published: 1994
The author uses a biopsychosocial model to address adolescent psychological development as it pertains to substance abuse, family & peer relationships, stages of recovery, & treating adolescents w/ phsychological disorders or victims of child abuse... Details >>
Status:Available Handbook of Alcoholism Treatment Approaches: Effective Alternatives
Published: 1989
Acquaints treatment personell with a wide range of diverse treatment regimens & includes comparisons of treatment efficacy across diverse treatment regimens & clients. Emphasizes that alcoholism is not the same experience for each client, and treatments m.. Details >>
Status:Available Preventing Workplace Substance Abuse: Beyond Drug Testing to Wellness
Published: 2003
Sheds light on the limitations of drug testing & demonstrates how individual & organizational wellness efforts can more effectively cut employee alcohol & drug use. Describes interventions, holistic wellness, prevention programs, and harm reduction... Details >>
Status:Available Put Yourself in Their Shoes: Understanding Teenagers with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Published: 1999
Covers characteristics & causes of ADHD in adolescents, how to get a good assessment, medications, controversial treatments, how to build positive communications at home, ADHD & the military, preventing & handling delinquency and substance abuse, and prep.. Details >>
Status:Available High Risk: Children Without a Conscience
Published: 1987
Learn to recognize character-disturbed children & adults, prevent the development of antisocial behavior, find the best help if your child is at risk, and minimize the trauma of adoption & foster care... Details >>
Status:Available Training Families To Do a Successful Intervention
Published: 1996
Properly planned & carried out with respect, intervention is highly effective. This book provides the keys that can save lives, restore careers and bring families together. Based on the Johnson Institute intervention framework. Helpful for family & friend.. Details >>
Status:Available Brief Intervention: A Clinician's Manual
Published: 2004
Brief interventions are an effective way to reach clients who experience mild to moderate substance abuse. Ken Winters outlines the principles & applications of BI, including motivational interviewing techniques, benefits of harm reduction & risk assessme.. Details >>
Status:Available Training New Mentors
Published: 2001
National Mentoring Center: Technical Assistance Packet #5.. Details >>
Status:Available Get Things Going: 50 Asset-Building Activities for Workshops, Presentations, and Meetings
Published: 2000
A resource for meetings, workshops, and presentations with ice-breakers and team-building activities... Details >>
Status:Available Empowerment Evaluation Principles in Practice
Published: 2005
Presents the most current formulation of the ten principles of empowerment evaluation & provides the tool to put them into practice. Includes how to balance program improvement w/ accountability, how EE can be used to guide standards- based work, & differ.. Details >>
Status:Available Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research
Published: 2000
Characteristics of successful focus groups, from planning to data reporting. This book is considered the standard in the field- easy to use w/ checklists of important tips, cautions, and examples for each chapter. Helps you get exactly the information you.. Details >>
Status:Available Teacher's Guidebook to Inhalant Abuse
Published: 1992
Cirriculum for inhalant abuse prevention for grades K-6; includes lesson plans and activities that focus on health, how our bodies work, life skills like decision-making, refusal, self-worth, personal strengths & weaknesses and self-concept, as well as th.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: September 2003
Published: 2003
Articles include: An Alderian-Based Method of Treating Addictions; Assisting Gay & Lesbian Clients; The Professional in Recovery: Be Sensitive to Professional Culture; Helping Clients Overcome 'Family Culture of Pain'; Multiple Tools to Treat Pathological.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: November 2003
Published: 2003
Articles include: Harm Reduction: Where Should Professionals Stand?; Beware of Your Clients' Medicine Cabinet; Making the Most of Training Opportunities; Addressing The Aging Face of Addiction; Gambling; Workplace Issues... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: March 2004
Published: 2004
Articles include: Better Aftercare for the Dually Diagnosed; Do School & Recovery Mix?; Addiction & Child Welfare Professionals; Who Should Speak for the Cause?; Dialectical Behavioral Therapy; The Public Health Case for Needle Exchange; Opiate Addiction;.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: July 2004
Published: 2004
Articles include: Treating the Couple When One is Addicted; Improving Intervention: Two Better than One?; Counselors Must Help Plan Clients' Aftercare; Addiction Summit Group Begins to Build Strategy for Elevating the Field.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: November 2004
Published: 2004
Articles include: The Future & Science of Addiction Services; 'Weighty' Matters During Recovery; Healing Emotional Wounds: Substance Abuse & Feelings; Clergy & Sexual Boundaries: Addiction & Sexual Orientation; Managing Pain with Coexisting Addictive Diso.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: January 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: Clients in Gangs; Compensation Trends in Behavioral Healthcare; Group Psychotherapy; Gambling; 'Treatment Works!': Is it Time for a New Slogan?'; New Hope for Treating Alcoholism: Will Professionals Embrace the Latest Medication Options?.. Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: March 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: Attracting Medical Specialist to the Addiction Field; Your Clients' Support Groups; Prevention Program Guidance; Trends in Counseling; Understanding Gambling's Addictive Process; Using Dreams in Treatment; The Kubler-Ross Grief Model... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: May 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: Complexities of Culture; Eating Disorders; Gambling Screening Tools; Defining Success with Treatment of Adolescents; Six Skills for Loved Ones; Impulsivity, Risk & Recovery; Using Motivational Interviewing to Overcome Ambivalence... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: July 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: New Medication for Opiate Addiction; Harm Reduction; Workforce Development Strategies; Body Image in Adolescent Girls; Teens with Addicted Parents; Treating a Gambling Disorder; Do I Want to Be a SAP?... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: September 2005
Published: 2005
Articles include: Dealing With Client Reluctance; Women's Treatment that Addresses Trauma; Hope for Youths with Learning Problems; Motivational Interviewing & Stages of Change; Recovery & Tobacco Use... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: Jan/Feb 2006
Published: 2006
Articles include: Meth Use & Risk in Gay Men; Challenges in Treating Asian-Americans; Who Will Lead the Profession?; Depression 101 for Addiction Counselors... Details >>
Status:Available Addiction Professional: March/April 2006
Published: 2006
Articles include: Counseling on Campus; Trials With Buprehorphine; Can Your Work Be Done Online?; Maximizing the Usefullness of Clinical Staffings; Assessing Nutritional Status; Telephone Recovery Support; Using Myers- Briggs Type Indicator... Details >>
Status:Available Alcoholic Women in Treatment: Issues & Strategies
Taped seminar on treatment female alcoholics. Addressed are society's views/stereotypes of women who drink, similarities & differences between the way men & women metabolize alcohol, and reasons women don't enter treatment... Details >>
Status:Available Spirituality of Recovery
Videotaped conference w/ Father William Rutledge.. Details >>
Status:Available The Physician Does Make a Difference: Recognizing the Faces of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
Published: 1991
Physicians discuss ways to diagnosie D&A abuse in hospitalized & emergency room patients, & to take an active role in the education of their patients. Covers barriers to diagnosis, signs to look for, interviewing techniques, info on FAS, & importance of.. Details >>
Status:Available Identification and Referral of Children of Alcoholics
For use as self-instruction or as curriculum material. Program Implementation Guide available... Details >>
Status:Available Using the ASI to Assess Client Needs and Treatment Planning - A Training Videotape: Part I
ASI training video... Details >>
Status:Available Using the ASI to Assess Client Needs and Treatment Planning - A Training Videotape: Part II
ASI training video... Details >>
Status:Available Legal Issues Relating to Student Assistance Programs
Discusses legal issues regarding Student Assistance Program... Details >>
Status:Available Family Disease
David Bender of the Council on Drug & Alcohol Abuse explains in detail the concept of family disease... Details >>
Status:Available Staff Development: Working with Hostile and Resistant Teens
Effective anger management strategies are modeled by an experienced counselor as he meets w/ youth with problems ranging from fighting and being pregnant to reporting a friend who may kill herself. Two tape set with video guide... Details >>
Status:Available We Card - The Workshop
This video was created by the Coalition for Responsible Tobacco Retailing in order to train retailers on how to sell tobacco and how not to sell it and to whom... Details >>
Status:Available A Guide to Conducting Tobacco Compliance Checks
For training inspectors on how to conduct tobacco sale compliance checks. Developed for State & local agencies responsible for monitoring sales to minors, as mandated by the Synar Regulation. Federal agencies, local tobacco enforcement officials & resear.. Details >>
Status:Available PA Client Placement Criteria Linking Paper to Practice: Part I
This video introduces the state client placement criteria for adults, developed through a co-operative effort that brought together addiction treatment, researchers, single county authorities, managed care organization and others... Details >>
Status:Available PA Client Placement Criteria Linking Paper to Practice Part II
This video introduces the state client placement criteria for adults they developed the criteria through a co-operative effort that brought together addiction treatment, researchers, single county authorities, managed care organization and others. The cri.. Details >>
Status:Available Teaching Children Affected by Substance Abuse
Published: 1994
6 practices are described: Creating a Nurturing Classroom, Encouraging Cooperative Learning, Facilitating Transitions, Help Manage Behavior, Assessing for Progress, and Building School-Home Connections. Ideas and activities included, as is a Teacher Guide.. Details >>
Status:Available Risk & Reality: Teaching Preschool Children Affected By Substance Abuse
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Status:Available Nation's Challenge: A Guide for Educators of Children Affected by AOD- Part 1
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Status:Available Nation's Challenge: A Guide for Educators of Children Affected by AOD- Part 2
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Status:Available The Road to Recovery: Alcohol & Drug Use Screening, Intervention & Referral
Published: 2004
This video looks at changing the process of screening, intervention, & referral to get more people the addiction treatment they need. Successful points of intervention are emergency rooms, primary care physicians, pediatricians, military doctors, and othe.. Details >>
Status:Available The Road to Recovery: Alcohol & Drug Use Screening, Intervention & Referral
Published: 2004
This video looks at changing the process of screening, intervention, & referral to get more people the addiction treatment they need. Successful points of intervention are emergency rooms, primary care physicians, pediatricians, military doctors, and othe.. Details >>
Status:Available End Broken Promises, Mend Broken Hearts
Published: 2003
For educators, parents, clergy, & criminal justice, treatment & medical professionals who want info on the needs of children w/ chemically dependent parents. Features noted authorities Claudia Black and Jerry Moe... Details >>
Status:Available Brief Intervention
Published: 2004
**DVD** Brief interventions are an effective way to reach clients who experience mild to moderate substance abuse. Ken Winters outlines the principles & applications of BI, including motivational interviewing techniques, benefits of harm reduction and ris.. Details >>