Practicing Alcohol Moderation
eBook - ePub

Practicing Alcohol Moderation

A Comprehensive Workbook

  1. 106 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Practicing Alcohol Moderation

A Comprehensive Workbook

About this book

Practicing Alcohol Moderation is designed to be used by clients of behavioral health care providers who have utilized The Clinician's Guide to Alcohol Moderation.

This groundbreaking workbook can be used on its own or in conjunction with therapy, and additionally as a resource for family members whose loved ones are struggling with alcohol. It gives transparent, easy-to-follow, research-based explanations with questionnaires, checklists, quizzes, and worksheets. Each chapter begins with a brief overview and is interspersed with exercises and client experiences, combining research-based information with practical self-assessments, tools, and questions to answer to practice alcohol moderation. Readers can take the Alcohol Moderation Assessment to determine their likelihood of success in practicing alcohol moderation.

The book provides the resources to create a personalized Alcohol Moderation Plan and suggests ways to manage its success for clinicians and general audiences alike.

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Index

Page numbers in italic type indicate figures.
AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) 3–4, 7, 42
abstinence: achieving four months of 45–55; rationale for four months of 39–43; Spectrum of Alcohol Use and 15; sufficiency of 4; will to go through 68
accidents 28
accountability 68, 85
Action Stage 33
addiction treatment industry 6–7
adenosine 28
adolescents 64, 67
adult children of alcoholics (ACOA) 65
age, as negative predictor 67
alcohol dependence, defined 14–15
alcohol effects: accidents and injuries 28; brain and 26–27, 97; cardiovascular system 27; central nervous system (CNS) 26; driving 28; immune system 27; liver and pancreas 27, 66; pregnancy 27–28; safe levels and 25; sleep 28–29, 42; weight 29, 97
alcohol-free outlets 68
alcoholic and alcoholism, use of terms 20
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 3–4, 7, 42–43
Alcohol in Moderation 9
alcohol misuse, defined 14
alcohol moderation: achieving four months of abstinence 45–55; addiction treatment industry and 6–7; Alcohol Moderation Assessment and 57–68; avoidance of help and 11–12; binge drinking and 16; client examples 5–6, 12; defined 9–10; developing plan for 81–86; education and 7; Four to One 10–11; harm reduction and 5; monitoring plan for 87–94; rationale for four months of abstinence and 39–43; reasons for drinking and 12; res...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction
  9. ONE Recovery, Harm Reduction, and Alcohol Moderation
  10. TWO What Is Alcohol Moderation?
  11. THREE Self-Assessment
  12. FOUR Alcohol’s Effect on Body, Mind, and Health
  13. FIVE Am I Ready to Make Changes?
  14. SIX Why Four Months
  15. SEVEN How to Achieve Four Months of Abstinence
  16. EIGHT Taking the Alcohol Moderation Assessment
  17. NINE Alcohol Moderation Tools
  18. TEN Developing an Alcohol Moderation Plan
  19. ELEVEN Monitoring Your Alcohol Moderation Plan
  20. TWELVE Alcohol Moderation Resources
  21. References
  22. Index