Pathways to Self-Discovery and Change: A Guide for Responsible Living: The Participant's Workbook

Pathways to Self-Discovery and Change: A Guide for Responsible Living - The Participant’s Workbook, Second Edition provides a written and richly illustrated format through which clients can better understand and reflect on each of 32 (approxi­mately 90 to 120 minutes in length) youth-focused CBT treatment sessions.   Pathways to Self-Discovery and Change supplies clients with a visual and written record of all treatment objectives, content information, modeling and role-plays, discus­sion points, interactive exercises, and reflective assign­ments and a place to record their ideas, insights, short- and long-term goals, and progress during the entire treatment episode.   The Participant’s Workbook is geared to a broad range of reading and conceptual abilities. Using comic strip illustrations and gripping stories (presented through the narrative voice of teen­agers who experience a variety of problems with sub­stance abuse, criminal conduct, and mental health issues), clients are engaged in active discussion about the situations, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that have become embroidered in their patterns of sub­stance abuse and criminal conduct.

Table of Contents:
Welcome Phase I: What?- Challenge to Change 1. Building Trust and Motivation to Change 2. Building a Knowledge Base 3. Talking About Yourself and Listening to What Others Say 4. Backsliding to Drugs and Crime 5. Making a Commitment to Change Phase II: How?- Commitment to Change 6. Basic Communication Skills 7. Avoiding Trouble and Playing Fair 8. Responsibility to Others and the Community 9. Zeroing in on Harm-Directing Thoughts 10. Handling Anger, Guilt and Depression Phase III: Now!- Ownership of Change and Calling the Shots 11. Overcoming Prejudice 12. Exploring Individual Intimacy 13. Problem Solving and Decision Making 14. Lifestyle Balance 15. Stability and Growth

About the Author :
Harvey B. Milkman, PhD received his baccalaureate degree from City College of New York and his doctorate from Michigan State University. He is currently professor of psychology at Metropolitan State College of Denver. His doctoral research was conducted with William Frosch, MD, at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in New York City, on the User’s Drug of Choice. From 1980–1981, he completed a sabbatical exploration of addictive behavior in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia; in 1985 he was recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Lectureship award at the National University of Malaysia. He has represented the United States Information Agency as a consultant and featured speaker in Australia, Brazil, Iceland, The Netherlands, Peru, Turkey, and Yugoslavia. He is principle author with Stanley Sunderwirth of “The Chemistry of Craving,” and author of “Better than Dope,” featured articles in Psychology Today, October, 1983 and April, 2001 respectively. From September 1992–June 2002, he was author, principal investigator, and director of Project Self-Discovery: Artistic Alternatives for High-Risk Youth, a national demonstration model funded by The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and the Edward Byrne Foundation. Kenneth W. Wanberg, ThD, PhD, has worked as a clinician and researcher in the field of alcohol and drug abuse for more than four decades, specializing in the intersection of criminal conduct and substance abuse.