Managing Your Substance Use Disorder: Client Workbook - Paperback

by Dennis C. Daley (Author), Antoine B. Douaihy (Author)

Managing Your Substance Use Disorder: Client Workbook is an interactive recovery guide that engages readers who have a substance use disorder in an active process of learning strategies to manage the daily challenges of sobriety and recovery and to reduce the risk of lapse and relapse. Designed to accompany Managing Substance Use Disorder: Practitioner Guide, this Workbook provides detailed information about substances of use, reader-friendly checklists, and engaging activities in order to personalize the reader's recovery plan. The book then reviews current trends in substance use and disorders, causes and effects of these disorders, substance related disorders, treatment approaches (medications and psychosocial), mutual support programs, and the impact of substance use on the family and concerned significant others, and integrates the best scientifically-supported interventions with the authors' extensive experiences as scientist-clinicians. This Workbook addresses the most common challenges faced by individuals with substance use disorders, such as managing cravings, resisting social pressures to use, coping with negative emotions and moods, building a social support network, involving family or concerned significant others, and reducing lapse and relapse risk.

Author Biography

Dennis C. Daley, PhD, is Senior Clinical Director of Substance Use Services in the Behavioral Health Integration Division at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Insurance Division. He is also a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Daley has been involved in clinical care, research, and teaching about addiction for nearly 40 years, and has been an investigator, consultant and trainer on numerous local and national studies funded by NIDA or NIAAA. One of the first experts in the US to publish interactive workbooks on recovery from addiction or co-occurring psychiatric disorders, Dr. Daley has advocated for decades for recovery for individuals and families affected by addiction, or co-occurring disorders. He also shares personal experiences dealing with addiction in his own family.

Antoine Douaihy, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, Senior Academic Director of Addiction Medicine Services and Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Western Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), and Co-Director of the Tobacco Treatment Service of UPMC. His areas of clinical and research expertise are substance use disorders (SUDs) and SUDs co-occurring with psychiatric disorders in adults and adolescents, psychosocial interventions for the treatment of SUDs, smoking cessation, psychology of behavior change, and motivational interviewing. His research has been funded by NIAAA, NIDA, NIMH, SAMHSA, HRSA, and pharmaceutical companies.