Counselling a Recovering Drug User: A Person-Centered Dialogue

by Bryant-Jefferies; Richard

• ISBN13: 9781857758504
• ISBN10: 1857758501
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-11-05
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

A new title in the Living Therapy Series. "This book is well timed and critically needed because it is a unique focus specifically working with the individual drug abuser which is written within the Carl Rogers' person-centered approach. This book is matchless and deeply insightful. Bryant-Jefferies offers critical wisdom from his many years of counseling persons with substance abuse problems and brings into the text the guidance and skill of an experienced supervisor. No doubt this book will remain a reference for a long time to come for all of us working in the field of counseling persons with drug abuse problems." Dana Murphy Parker, Professor of Nursing, Arizona Western College, Board of Directors, The International Nurses Society on Addictions, in her Foreword.

Table of Contents

Forewords	p. v
Preface	p. ix
About the author	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
The person-centred approach	p. 2
Drug use	p. 6
Setting the scene	p. 9
A new beginning	p. 11
	p. 11
	p. 20
Painful memories and the struggle to identify feelings	p. 27
	p. 27
	p. 32
Supervision 1	p. 43
Panic attack and using on top	p. 49
	p. 49
	p. 55
Making sense of the lapse	p. 61
	p. 61
	p. 67
Supervision 2	p. 77
'Parts' of Dan begin to emerge as he connects with his past	p. 85
	p. 85
	p. 92
Further 'parts' emerge and the metaphor of a jigsaw of self arises	p. 99
	p. 99
	p. 107
The Jigsaw of Self	p. 119
Supervision 3	p. 125
A month later	p. 131
	p. 131
	p. 136
The past relived; attempting to stop the methadone	p. 139
	p. 139
	p. 146
Supervision 4	p. 155
Dan reflects on his goals for the future	p. 161
	p. 161
Author's comments	p. 171
References	p. 173
Further reading	p. 175
Useful contacts	p. 177
Drugs	p. 177
Person-centred	p. 178
Index	p. 179
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