The Mental Health and Substance Use Recovery Workbook (An Integrated Approach to Overcome Co-Occurring Challenges and Take Back Your Life)

Dual recovery from mental illness and addiction is possible. Discover powerful skills and strategies for creating an effective, personalized recovery program with this workbook.

If you are struggling with addiction and a co-occurring mental health challenge such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress (PTSD), or bipolar disorders, you should know that you are not alone, and there is hope for a lasting, dual recovery. This evidence-based workbook can help you—or someone you love—find inner strength, address the addiction and mental health issues simultaneously, and acquire the skills and supports needed to build an enduring recovery program.

Written by national experts in treating co-occurring disorders, this workbook offers powerful, step-by-step guidance and skills to help you work through multiple challenges at once, strengthen your motivation for positive change, build on your successes—however small—to make continuing progress, and experience lasting personal growth. Using a combination of empathic wisdom, behavior skills training, engaging exercises, and real-world examples, this workbook will empower you to create your own personalized recovery plan, one that you can turn to again and again, whenever you need it.

Develop a dual, integrated recovery plan to help you:

• Embrace yourself as you are
• Harness the power of hope
• Focus on your strengths and build self-confidence
• Develop your own “integrated support team”
• Learn the skills you need to succeed