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March Towards Sobriety by Delbert Boone VIDEO
In this video, Boone literally details the March Towards Sobriety. He shows the view through illustrative examples the positive and negative areas many encounter when going into treatment.  He defines many of the enemies of sobriety, such as feelings of anxiousness, agitation, boredom, frustration, depression, and loneliness  Delbert also details these common enemies of sobriety and reinforces the message that "the only way to get acceptance is through compliance" He explains why "recovery is a process not an event."

Motivating Chemically Dependent Adolescents to Recover  AUDIO
his presentation addresses the frustrations many counselors, teachers, and parents experience when trying to enlist the adolescent''s cooperation in treatment. Bell shares a treatment model that involves providing pretreatment programming before enrolling adolescents into early recovery programs.

Process of Recovery VIDEO
Michael Johnson takes the viewer through the process of self-discovery as they enter into and continue a life of recovery. He leads the viewer through the process of reflecting on their life, and the consequences of their behavior. He discusses how alcohol, drugs and criminal behavior can lead them to jail, death, or insanity. Johnson explains why "recovery and abstinence from alcohol, drugs, and criminal activity must be a permanent commitment." He discusses some of the changes that take place during the process of recovery and addresses getting back time, lack of determination, feeling bored, lost and abandoned. Family issues are also addressed, as well as how many addicts new in recovery use recovery as a bargaining chip with family members to make deals and promises.

Recovery: A Family Affair  VIDEO
Featuring Rosetta Oliver, this video focuses on family issues related to addiction, recovery and returning to the community after treatment. Ms. Oliver takes the audience through several stages of recovery. Discussions are focused on the behaviors and expectations of the alcoholic or addict and their family prior to and after release from treatment and/or incarceration. She explores the first danger area. . . the homecoming celebration!   Areas addressed in this video include:   clarifying the terms relapse and recovery; identifying stressors that often frustrate families when an active addict settles down to abstinence; building support systems, positive relationships and healthy boundaries.

Recovery: A Developmental Model 3 Video Set    VIDEO
This three-tape series presents the most recent research on what people do to successfully recover from addiction.This series is designed to guide viewers through a process that allows them to understand the recovery process, build a foundation for successful recovery, and create a quality recovery that will support sober and responsible living in all stages of life development. It is produced in training blocks that are eight-to-twelve minute in length. A counselor can pause the tape and facilitate a discussion of how that information applies to each person viewing the video.

Part 1: The Recovery Process
Part 2: Building a Foundation for Recovery
Part 3: Creating Quality Recovery

Recovery: A Developmental Model Part 1: The Recovery Process  VIDEO
Part 1 of the series gives an overview of what happens when people successfully recover. It reviews the six major goals of addiction recovery and presents the stages of the developmental model. It is designed to guide viewers through a process that allows them to understand the recovery process, build a foundation for successful recovery, and create a quality recovery that will support sober and responsible living in all stages of life development.

Recovery: A Developmental Model Part 2: Building a Foundation for Recovery   VIDEO
Part 2 reviews the first three stages of the recovery process. During the Transition Stage people recognize they are addicted and become willing to recover. During the Stabilization Stage people stop using alcohol and other drugs and recover from withdrawal. They develop a structured recovery program. During the Early Recovery Stage people identify and change their addictive ways of thinking, their addictive ways of managing feelings, emotions, and addictive behaviors.

Recovery: A Developmental Model : Part 3: Creating Quality Recovery    VIDEO
Part 3 reviews the last three stages of the recovery process. During the Middle Recovery Stage people repair the lifestyle damage done by addiction. They then build a new and more effective lifestyle. During the Late Recovery Stage people identify the self-limiting beliefs that make them miserable in sobriety. They also learn to identify and grow beyond mistaken childhood beliefs. During the Maintenance Stage people learn how to maintain their sobriety and avoid relapse. They learn how to responsibly cope with ongoing changes in their lives in a sober and responsible way.

Recovery and Relapse - 4  part video cassette set

Relapse - Part 1: Basic Principles   VIDEO
In this tape, Terry Gorski reviews eight basic principles of relapse prevention. These principles provide a basic understanding of the problem of relapse and the general steps that are necessary to manage it should it occur. This video is designed to be used with recovering patients and to orient clinical staff to the basic principles of relapse prevention and management. Each tape is approxaimtley 30-40 minutes in length and is broken down into 8 - 12 minute segments. The tape can be stopped at the end of each segment

Relapse - Part 2: Relapse Warning Signs  VIDEO
This videotape describes the basic progression of relapse warning signs that lead from stable recovery back to addicted use. In the early 1970s, Mr. Gorski discovered these warning signs through in-depth interviews with 117 relapse-prone addicts. Since that time, these basic warning signs have been organized into categories and clarified in ways that make them a powerful tool for relapse.

Relapse: Part 3: Managing Relapse Warning Signs   VIDEO
Terry Gorski explains how to review the relapse warning sign list and how to select and personalize warning signs that are of personal importance. He then shows how to map out common situations in which these warning signs occur and to manage these situations in new, more effective ways.

Resistance and Recovery:   VIDEO
Delbert Boone outlines how addiction affects the addict’s life socially, psychologically, spiritually and physically while creating a barrier for resistance to treatment. He explains why the longer an addict uses, the more resistant he becomes to recovery. He details effective exercises for overcoming resistance.

The Road to Recovery Women and Alcohol:
This video observes a group of women who have turned their lives away from drugs and alcohol, as they discuss alcoholism, drug abuse, and recovery. Several of the women explain how consuming large quantities of alcohol during their pregnancies led to complications such as premature births and seizures suffered by their newborns. This video effectively enforces that sobriety can and will bring out strength hidden inside.

The Rules of Recovery   VIDEO
Delbert Boone outlines the "rules of recovery" emphasizing the importance of getting dry so that you can begin to realize what addiction has taken away from your life and you can start to focus your attention on your physical and safety needs. He emphasizes that getting dry is an event and sobriety is a process. He discusses that process and how there is no magic in recovery, that all a person needs to do is learn to comply, because sobriety is about complying and learning to follow the laws, rules and regulations of life. He also addresses the importance of focusing on making today just a little bit better than yesterday.

Set-Up For Relapse   VIDEO
In this new video, Michael Johnson addresses the relapse dynamics of the addicted offender. He explains the role of family and peer relationships in association with relapse. How boredom and a lack of activities can serve as a set-up. He will explain how many in recovery have looked at sobriety as a "temporary" experience, only to be engaged in while incarcerated, or on probation and parole. This open, in your face presentation also addresses numerous other pitfalls associated with relapse.

Sobriety Straight Up:  VIDEO
Filmed at the Gateway Free & Clean Program in St. Louis with a group of recovering addicts, Delbert Boone addresses addiction, recovery and sobriety. He emphasizes that an important part of recovery and sobriety is to recognize and understand that not everything that has happened in their life is bad. He explains how most addicts have developed some very positive qualities such as creativity, consistency, diligence, determination and being able to deal with adversity. He illustrates how addicts engage these qualities while actively pursuing their drug of choice, and outlines how these same positive qualities can be used during recovery to help them stay straight and maintain healthy sobriety. Sobriety: Straight Up will assist clinicians in identifying positive personal attributes and cognitively isolate the positive and negative behavior patterns in their clients to help motivate them towards seeking to remain sober.

Two oustanding documanetaries dealing with the realities of living with addiction and fighting for recovery  by Wildcat Media

Upside Down DOCUMENTARY
A documentary about people living with addiction and fighting for recovery. This unique documentary follows one addict who recovers from heroin and cocaine addiction. The camera follows his journey through three distinct periods of his addiction, in jail, out of jail, and interacting with other addicts all struggling to live while overcoming addiction. This tape deals with the reality of addiction.

Heroin: DOCUMENTARY
A documentary about the struggle with addiction. This video weaves the story of the addict, Greg Belosic, together with commentary by internationally renowned psychiatrist Dr. Ron Leifer. In this powerful documentary we see Greg struggle with addiction from the inside and gain insight from Dr. Leifer on methods to overcome addiction to face the pain of life from the outside. This video deals with the reality of addiction.

BOOKS ON RECOVERY

Clean Start: An Outpatient Program for Cocaine Recovery  BOOK
“Practitioners of varying experience will find the usefulness of this “how to” manual unsurpassed in the addicted client and facilitating group process.

Facing the Shadow: Starting Sexual & Relationship Recovery   BOOK
Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery is the first to take techniques used by thousands of recovering sex addicts and show readers, step by step, how to break free of problematic sexual behaviors and live a healthier, more fulfilling life. A task-centered, competency-based, effective approach to recovery from compulsive behaviors

Denial Management Counseling Professional Guide : Advanced Clinical Skills for Motivating Substance Abusers to Recover BOOK
This book can help therapists succeed with clients who are locked into patterns of severe denial and treatment resistance. It will show you how to integrate this denial management system into your personal clinical style and treatment program.

Denial Management Counseling Workbook : Practical Exercises for Motivating Substance Abusers to Recover  BOOK
Denial is a normal and natural response for coping with painful and overwhelming problems. This workbook describes the twelve most common denial patterns and guides the reader through a series of exercises that help them identify and more effectively manage their own denial.

Dual Diagnosis Workbook : Recovery Strategies for Substance Use and Mental Health   BOOK
This recovery workbook will give you information about psychiatric disorders and alcohol or drug abuse. This condition is referred to as dual disorders. It also provides information about the recovery process and relapse prevention issues.

Group Psychotherapy and Recovery from Addiction: Carrying the Message  BOOK
Group Psychotherapy and Recovery from Addiction: Carrying the Message is NOT a self-help book. Instead, it’s a rare opportunity to sit in on a virtual therapy group and take part in a virtual Twelve Step meeting. The book’s unique perspective lets you compare and contrast the experience of participating in a psychotherapy group and a Twelve Step group, including an examination of the Twelve Steps and The Twelve Traditions.

Learning to Live Again: A Guide for Recovery from Chemical Dependency  BOOK
earning to Live Again has taken a complex disease process and presented it in a simple format that is a pleasure to read. This very popular and useful book includes all forms of chemical dependency. It can be used individually by recovering people or as a basis for patient education programs to ensure a comprehensive understanding of the disease and recovery process.

Treating the Alcoholic: A Developmental Model of Recovery  BOOK
Challenging conventional psychotherapeutic approaches, this book offers a major re-examination of our beliefs, values, and theories about alcoholism. It offers a dynamic process oriented “continuum of recovery” principle.

Understanding the Twelve Steps : A Guide for Counselors, Therapists, and Recovering People BOOK
This book presents the principles that underlie the single most effective program for treatment of chemical addictions. That program, of course, is Alcoholics Anonymous, better known as AA. Millions of people use the Twelve Steps to transform their lives.