The Quick-Reference Guide to Addictions and Recovery Counseling: 40 Topics, Spiritual Insights, and Easy-to-Use Action Steps
Overview
We live in an addictive age, and many people are suffering silently. For anyone who is called to counsel those with addictions, The Quick-Reference Guide to Addictions and Recovery Counseling will be a welcome guide to bring hope, life, and freedom.
This A-Z guide gives pastors, professional counselors, and lay helpers the information they need to help recovering church members, clients, and friends work through the spiritual and emotional issues connected to addiction. The many types of substance abuse and behavioral addictions addressed include:
- alcohol
- caffeine
- depressants
- narcotics
- prescription drugs
- cutting and self-harm
- eating disorders
- gambling
- hoarding
- internet use and gaming
- shopping
- social networking
Each of the forty topics covered follows a helpful eight-part outline and identifies typical symptoms and patterns, definitions and key thoughts, questions to ask, directions for the conversation, action steps, biblical insights, prayer starters, and recommended resources.
- Includes chapters on forty of the most prevalent counseling issues
- Provides action steps, prayer starters, and biblical insights
- Guides readers in planning and delivering the best care from beginning to end
- Addictions and Recovery Overview
- Substance Abuse Addictions
- Behavioral Addictions
- Process Addictions
Top Highlights
“Anger becomes rage in a variety of settings and for different reasons” (Page 265)
“While knowing various factors are involved in the development of addiction—as we have reviewed above—we cannot, in an isolated way, simply allow the counselee to blame others (for example, family members) or circumstances (peer pressure, the environment one was raised in, traumatic events, and so on) for his or her addiction. This would not lead to intervention and change. It is most important in the recovery process that the addict recognize the problem and own the responsibility for change. Without this awareness and a sense of ownership (where choices are made), the recovery process would not be initiated. The counselor’s role is to help the client come to this point.” (Page 32)
“In the 2 Kings passage above, a progression can be seen that begins with a choice and ends with a generational impact.” (Page 14)
“used to avoid and suppress such things as guilt, abandonment, fear, anxiety, embarrassment, and insecurity” (Page 265)
“— Step 6: We commit ourselves to obedience to God, desiring that He remove patterns of sin from our lives” (Page 54)
With the plague of addictions found in the church today, those called to a ministry of hope and healing must be prepared for the plethora of struggles that will come their way. This in-depth guide should be at the top of your list as you pour grace into hurting lives and lead people toward recovery.
—Mark Laaser, cofounder of Faithful and True and bestselling author of Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction
An excellent and invaluable resource for pastors, lay leaders, and counselors dealing with ministry for those trapped in addiction--especially for those inside the church doors. Addiction knows no boundaries, and those in leadership in the church need this kind of educational tool.
—David Stoop, psychologist, coauthor of the Life Recovery Bible and cohost of Christian radio talk show New Life Live!
The tool you hold in your hand is much-needed in today's broken world. The pages contain a broad and yet in-depth spectrum of advice and guidance to help you impact those struggling in addictions.
—John Baker, founder of Celebrate Recovery
- Title: The Quick-Reference Guide to Addictions and Recovery Counseling: 40 Topics, Spiritual Insights, and Easy-to-Use Action Steps
- Authors: Tim Clinton, Eric Scalise
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Counseling › Handbooks, manuals, etc; Drug addition › Treatment--Religious aspects
- ISBNs: 9781441259288, 9781441244604, 9780801072321, 1441259287, 1441244603, 0801072328
- Resource ID: LLS:9781441244604
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T05:46:26Z
Tim Clinton is president of the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC), executive director of the Center for Counseling and Family Studies, professor of counseling and pastoral care at Liberty University and Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, and a licensed professional counselor.
Eric Scalise is an author, speaker, and vice president for professional development at AACC and the former department chair for counseling programs at Regent University.