Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for Addictive Behaviors: A Clinician's Guide

This authoritative book presents an innovative relapse prevention program that integrates mindfulness practices with evidence-based cognitive and behavioral strategies. Clinicians get essential information and materials for implementing the approach with their clients. Eight carefully structured group sessions help participants gain awareness of their own inner experiences, step out of habitual patterns of thought and behavior that can trigger relapse, and acquire concrete skills to meet the day-to-day challenges of recovery. In a convenient large-size format, the book includes detailed guidelines for facilitating each session, scripted examples of guided meditations, and more than 20 reproducible handouts. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Part I. Conducting Mindfulness-Based Relapse PreventionPart II. Facilitator’s Guide Session 1: Automatic Pilot and Relapse Session 2: Awareness of Triggers and Craving Session 3: Mindfulness in Daily Life Session 4: Mindfulness in High-Risk Situations Session 5: Acceptance and Skillful Action Session 6: Seeing Thoughts as Thoughts Session 7: Self-Care and Lifestyle Balance Session 8: Social Support and Continuing Practice

About the Author :
Sarah Bowen, PhD, Neha Chawla, PhD, and G. Alan Marlatt, PhD, all at the Addictive Behaviors Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Review :
"Here is a book that contains both an evidence-based program and an invitation to explore a wholly new way of dealing with addictive feelings and behaviors. It is based on many years of painstaking research on the factors that help or hinder the long journey to recovery after addiction. It explains in helpful detail the demands and huge potential of the mindfulness approach for clinicians and clients. This book will be an inspiration to all who read it, and transformative for those who practice it." - Mark Williams, University of Oxford, UK "I'm very impressed by the systematic approach to recovery that Marlatt et al. offer. This book gives clear guidance on how to blend mindfulness, a sometimes vague topic, with addiction treatment, a notoriously slippery enterprise. The result is an invaluable resource, well researched and practically oriented. I'll be using this book in my own teaching." - Kevin Griffin, author of One Breath at a Time "Mindfulness is the single most powerful tool available for those seeking freedom from addiction. Drawing on their notable wealth of research and clinical experience, Marlatt et al. have created a groundbreaking relapse prevention program. For any therapist drawn to the practice of mindfulness, this guide provides a clear, accessible, and sensitive way to engage clients in a process of deep transformation and healing." - Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance