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

by Sarah W. Bowen, Neha Chawla, G. Alan Marlatt

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. In eight carefully structured group sessions, 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. User-friendly features include detailed guidelines for facilitating each session, scripted examples of guided meditations, and more than 20 reproducible handouts and forms.

Genres: Addiction, Psychology

179 pages, Paperback

First published November 9, 2010

Reviews

[Durwin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a great resource for clinical counselors who want to assist people in recovery using mindfulness as a key tool for that purpose. The book provides structured exercises and practices specifically for a group format. However, I have found them to also be readily adaptable for use with individuals.

[Jake · Rating 3 out of 5]

“As stated by Viktor Frankl (1946), ‘Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our responses lies our growth and freedom.’ Mindfulness practices increase awareness of this space and create opportunity to respond skillfully rather than to react automatically and habitually.”

A solid guide! Wish I worked with groups to try this out - but helpful frameworks on mindfulness regardless. I also like a bunch of the meditations, worksheets, and poems included.

[James Stewart · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

Everyone in the chemical dependency field should read this and integrate mindfulness into their
practice. This could revolutionize and improve the way we do treatment.

[Andres Salgado · Rating 3 out of 5]

Muy interesante. Desde mi perspectiva como practicante mindfulness, y profesional de la salud mental, me parece muy adecuado poder complementar este libro con otros autores como Andrew Tatarsky toman mucho de estos postulados (los de Alan Marlatt), con su terapia de reducción de daños. Como digo, esto va muy a la mano.
Podríamos colocar a este libro como una extensión del tratamiento de reducción de daños, o simplemente del tratamiento en general del consumo de sustancias.
Muy buen libro, y muy específico, dando los pasos sesión a sesión.
Uno en teoría podría establecer un semestre entero de sesiones basadas en mindfulness con este libro. Me gusta lo estructurado, recordándome a la estructura que poseen la TDC (Terapia Dialéctica Conductual).

Recomendado si le interesa: tratamiento abuso de sustancias; Mindfulness; Terapia de Reducción de Daños.