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The Beyond Addiction Workbook for Family and Friends

Cordelia Kraus

by Dr. Jeff Foote, Dr. Carrie Wilkens, and Dr. Ken Carpenter

The Beyond Addiction Workbook for Family and Friends: Evidence-Based Skills to Help a Loved One Make Positive Change, is the first full-length publication on the Invitation to Change Approach (ITC).

From Dr. Carrie Wilkens, Dr. Jeff Foote, and Dr. Ken Carpenter (authors of Beyond Addiction), this book provides a thorough, compassionate guide through the Invitation to Change Approach, a helping model based in science and compassion that is built to teach both family members and professionals the most effective strategies for supporting someone who is struggling with substance use and change.

This healing and supportive workbook offers practical, evidence-based skills to help you address substance use or other compulsive behaviors with your loved one in a productive way—without creating conflict. You’ll also gain a greater understanding for their struggle, and learn essential strategies for improving communication and coping with your own feelings. Whether your loved one seems reluctant to change, or is actively seeking support, this workbook will give you the tools needed to help them on their journey.

Using the authors’ Invitation to Change approach, you’ll discover:

  • How to understand substance-using behaviors from a new perspective

  • How to approach the problem without judgment

  • How to open lines of communication

  • How to set respectful limits

  • How to live with pain and still stay connected

  • How compassion is key to helping your loved one—and you!

Note from the authors: What’s the difference between The Beyond Addiction Workbook and The Invitation to Change: A Short Guide?

The Beyond Addiction Workbook is our newest workbook, and offers a fuller description of the Invitation to Change Approach, as well as additional exercises and learning tools that are not available in the Short Guide. We view the Beyond Addiction Workbook as the definitive guide to the Invitation to Change model.

The Invitation to Change: A Short Guide is also a great primer for the ideas and tools in the Invitation to Change Approach. In our groups for communities and families, group leaders use the Short Guide as the basic text for participants, as it is smaller and more manageable. For this reason, we have also developed a companion text, The Short Guide: Group Leader’s Edition, for group leaders running ITC-based support groups. The Group Leader’s Edition includes additional information on running and maintaining groups, as well as instructions and guidance for every session in the Short Guide. 

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