It Takes A Family: A Cooperative Approach to Lasting Sobriety
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.51 (940 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1616495340 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 260 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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More importantly, this book empowers families and addicts to do it themselves."- Jason Schwartz, addiction & recovery news. "invaluable for clinicians who are looking for ways to extend support and monitoring
the best book ever written on how families can support their La Farge Without a doubt, the best book ever written on how families can support their loved ones through addiction to recovery. This work is groundbreaking should become new model for the way we treat the whole system in addiction.. Excellent information Amazon Customer I have a ton of respect for this author. I actually got a chance to meet her once after a lecture she gave to a Masters Level addiction class. She's very insightful and experienced.. Great book for professionals and families Bill White was one of the first people I heard challenge our failure to distinguish between treatment and recovery. Jay picks up this theme and details the limitations of treatment–that treatment is good at stabilization, but in most cases it’s not designed to provide long term recovery support and monitoring. Where White’s focus is challenging treatment providers to develop systems and services to provide long term recovery monitoring and support, Jay’s focus is on giving families and addicts the information and tools to develop their own systems of long-term recovery monitor
Counselor and interventionist Debra Jay shows alcoholics, other addicts, and their loved ones how to work collaboratively and as individuals to take on the roles and responsibilities that support long-term sobrietyMost books on recovery from addiction focus either on the addict or the family. In It Takes a Family, Debra Jay takes a fresh approach to the recovery process by making family members and friends part of the recovery team, beginning in the early stages of sobriety.In straightforward, compassionate language, she outlines a structured model that shows family members both how to take personal responsibility and to build a circle of support to meet the obstacles common to the first year of recovery. While most alcoholics and addicts coming out of treatment have a recovery plan, families are often left to figure things out for themselves. With this invaluable guide, family members work together as they reinvent their relationships without the all-consuming dysfunction of active addiction.. Together, family members address the challenges of enabling, denial, and pain while developing their communication skills through practical, easy-to-follow strategies and exercises designed to create transparency and accountability