Full Description
Learn how to get soberand stay that way
Getting and staying sober provides a special set of challenges for professional peoplephysicians, lawyers, corporate CEOs, accountants, and otherswho drive themselves to achieve and succeed in high-pressure surroundings. Managing Your Recovery from Addiction applies business approaches and ideas to the process of planning, implementing, and carrying out programs that really work for professionals in their first year of recovery. This unique self-help book provides guidance to impaired executives and professionals seeking recovery through inpatient and outpatient care, setting strategies for managing conflict, dealing with changing emotions and moods, and developing a solid spiritual program.
Managing Your Recovery from Addiction helps professionals develop both short- and long-term programs for dealing with the challenges of maintaining sobriety. The book is based on the authors' extensive experience treating impaired business personnel in a variety of settings, including the Caron Treatment Centers and Lifeworks of London, England, an internationally recognized addictions treatment center. Their rational, scientific approach complements ongoing counseling and other treatment approaches to help keep the professional's career on track, saving the recovering individualand his or her employersignificant time and money due to lower productivity, arrested organizational development, absenteeism, and other problems associated with professional level addiction.
Topics examined in Managing Your Recovery from Addiction include:
a unique view of the 12 Steps for business personnel
the dynamics of managerial addiction
essential information to prevent relapse to active addiction
coping with relapse
basic tasks and fundamental recovery steps
setting and tracking recovery goals
recovery stages
10 tasks to recovery
conflict management strategies
spiritual development
addictions treatment
and much more!
Managing Your Recovery from Addiction concludes with the O'Connell Dysfunctional Attitude Survey (ODAS). This book is vital for recovering executives and professionals and is an important resource for addictions and mental health treatment agencies that serve a professional population. It's equally helpful for employee assistance program (EAP) personnel who regularly refer professionals for addictions treatment.
Contents
Preface
A Message to the Reader
Lesson 1. Creating and Implementing a Strategic Recovery Plan
Introduction
Goal Setting in Recovery
Analyzing Your Environment and Personal Circumstances
Developing Action Steps
Implementing Your Strategic Plan
Monitoring Progress
Conclusion
Lesson 2. Relapse Prevention and Recovery Maintenance
Understanding Relapse
High-Risk Relapse Situations
Dysfunctional Beliefs in Relapse
Disadvantages of Returning to Alcohol and Drug Use
Coping with Lapses and Relapses
Lesson 3. Dealing with Conflict in Recovery
Understanding Conflict
Conflict-Management Strategies
Determining Your Personal Conflict Resolution Style
Understanding the Roots of Problems with Conflict
Lesson 4. Managing Feelings and Moods
Understanding Feelings and Moods
Recognizing, Experiencing, and Disclosing Feelings
Examining and Modifying Mistaken Beliefs
Lesson 5. Managing Spirituality
Understanding Spirituality
The Twelve Steps and Spirituality
Scientific Research on Spirituality and Meditation
Experiencing Meditation
Overcoming Obstacles to Spiritual Development
Lesson 6. The Twelve Steps and the Business of Recovery
Working the Twelve Steps
Conclusion
Lesson 7. A Refresher Course in Addictions Treatment
Working Steps One, Two, and Three
Psychological Defenses and Chemical Dependency
Family Dysfunction and Its Impact on Emotional Health and Recovery
Understanding and Addressing the Process of Relapse
Addiction Education: Selected Lessons
Conclusion
Appendix. The O'Connell Dysfunctional Attitude Survey (ODAS)
Introduction
The Survey
Scoring Directions
Interpretation
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Reference Notes Included
