Practicing Alcohol Moderation A Comprehensive Workbook

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.

1: Recovery, Harm Reduction, and Alcohol Moderation; 2: What is Alcohol Moderation?; 3: Self-Assessment; 4: Alcohol’s Effect on Body, Mind, and Health; 5: Am I Ready to Make Changes?; 6: Why Four Months; 7: How to Achieve Four Months of Abstinence; 8: Taking the Alcohol Moderation Assessment; 9: Alcohol Moderation Tools; 10: Developing an Alcohol Moderation Plan; 11: Monitoring Your Alcohol Moderation Plan; 12: Alcohol Moderation Resources; References

Cyndi Turner, LCSW, LSATP, MAC, is the Co-Founder and Clinical Director of Insight Into Action Therapy and Insight Recovery Centers. She is a harm reduction therapist who has been in the addiction treatment field for almost three decades. Cyndi co-developed and facilitates the Dual Diagnosis Recovery Program©, is a clinical supervisor for licensure, expert witness, topic expert contributor for GoodTherapy, therapist for players involved with the NFL Program for Substances of Abuse, and is a nationally recognized trainer on alcohol moderation.