Product Description

Help clients suffering from chemical and nonchemical addictions develop the skills they need to work through problems

The Addiction Treatment Homework Planner, Third Edition provides you with an array of ready-to-use, between-session assignments designed to fit virtually every therapeutic mode. This easy-to-use sourcebook features:

• Updated assignments, 10 new assignments in five new problem areas, and new secondary exercises for many problems
• 88 ready-to-copy exercises covering the most common issues encountered by clients suffering from chemical and nonchemical addictions
• A quick-reference format—the interactive assignments are grouped by behavioral problems including alcoholism, nicotine dependence, and substance abuse, as well as those problems that do not involve psychoactive substances, such as problem gambling, eating disorders, and sexual addictions
• Expert guidance on how and when to make the most efficient use of the exercises
• Assignments that are cross-referenced to the The Addiction Treatment Planner, Third Edition—so you can quickly identify the right exercise for a given situation or behavioral problem
• A CD-ROM that contains all the exercises in Microsoft Word® format—allowing you to customize them to suit you and your clients' unique styles and needs

Additional resources in the PracticePlanners® series:

Treatment Planners cover all the necessary elements for developing formal treatment plans, including detailed problem definitions, long-term goals, short-term objectives, therapeutic interventions, and DSM diagnoses.

Progress Notes Planners contain complete, prewritten progress notes for each presenting problem in the companion Treatment Planners.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55648 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-14
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

Book Info
Text provides new therapeutic homework exercises for clients with a variety of addictions. Includes 78 copier-ready exercises covering the most common issues encountered by clients. CD-ROM contains all the exercises in a word-processing format. For psychologists. Previous edition not cited. Softcover.

About the Author
JAMES R. FINLEY, MA, is a practicing substance abuse and mental health psychotherapist currently working in a prison mental hospital. He is author of Integrating the 12 Steps into Addiction Therapy and coauthor of The Addiction Counselor's Documentation Sourcebook, Second Edition and Addiction Treatment Homework Planner, Second Edition, all from Wiley.

BRENDA S. LENZ, MS, is an educator and licensed counselor specializing in treating addictions in women and adolescents. She is the coauthor, with James Finley, of The Addiction Counselor's Documentation Sourcebook, Second Edition and Addiction Treatment Homework Planner, Second Edition (both from Wiley). She is currently a substance abuse counselor at Marquette University.

Customer Reviews

A Life Saver
This has saved me many times when I sudddenly find out I have to run a group minutes before it starts. It also has been a great supplement for indivdual needs that go beyond our curriculum.