Staying Sober: A Guide for Relapse Prevention

by Terence T. Gorski

Book Overview

Staying Sober: A Guide for Relapse Prevention- Based Upon the CENAPS Model of Treatment (Paperback). This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 083090459X
• ISBN13: 9780830904594
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: Herald Publishing House
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Gain the understanding of addiction that you will need to stay sober

This book offers easily understood explanations of addiction and the relapse process. The book was offered to me through an out-patient rehabilitation program and has been an invaluable tool on countless occasions since. The book offers examples that you can apply to your own experiences. By fully understanding the cycle of addiction can the addict most successfully break the cycle. I strongly recommend this book to anyone suffering from the disease of addiction, the sober family coping with a drug addicted member, or those offering education on the subject.

For anyone who wants to stay sober

While I was in Inpatient Rehab I was given this book to read. It is like a bible to me now. Everything you need to know about staying clean and sober is in this book. Along with AA, sponsors, numbers, support groups, this book gives you some soild tools to stay sober. I highly suggest it!

THESE FOLKS REALLY UNDERSTAND THE RELAPSE SYNDROME

This book is just a MUST for anyone with a chronic relapse problem. It is simply written and very straightforward. These authors have also published a workbook and manual to help with relapse prevention. These materials help one to put the principles advanced in "Staying Sober" to work. I sometimes think that I may never have finally gotten a grip on sobriety had I not discovered this book.

The Bible on Relapse and Recovery from Substance Abuse.

Until this book, the technology to treat repeated relapse into alcoholism and drug addiction did not exist at worst, and was haphazard at best. What the authors did was study relapsers and notice patterns of relapse. These patterns could then be codified and used in a program to identify 'triggers' or situation that lent themselves to relapse, and could thus be avoided in the future. In addition, some tools can be developed to help recovering persons deal with unexpected triggers if and when they arose in the future.It is a lot of work, both for the counselor and for the client, but the payoff is long term sobriety.

A *Very* Good Resource

As someone who has worked with substance abusing individuals (and, as a master's student, having comoderated a DUI therapy group), STAYING SOBER is an invaluable resource for therapists and clients alike. Basically, Gorski & Miller outline a way in which the addicted individual can learn to avoid relapsing in the future - basically, by examining the "triggers" (usually emotional & situational) which can potentially lead to relapse. By examining these triggers, and then creating a "relapse prevention plan", the addicted individual can usually find a way to avoid relapse. However, my summary does not do the book justice. I _strongly_ urge everyone who can to pick up this book. It is one of the best books I have read about the subject of relapse prevention