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This is a holistic, trauma-informed recovery guide to address emotional/mental health and addiction challenges simultaneously. Surrounding these significant challenges is often a crisis of identity where the self has felt or become fragmented. Identifying and reintegrating forgotten, dismissed, and/or disowned aspects of self, The Integrated Dual Recovery Workbook teaches how recovery from co-occurring disorders entails working toward reclaiming your identity to feel more whole. The Integrated Dual Recovery Workbook is illustrated with vivid, colorful images throughout to enhance your interest and learning along your recovery journey! The following are just some of the evidenced-based approaches and best practices used in this guide: Relapse Prevention and Sobriety Enhancement, Motivational Interviewing and Stages of Change, the Enhanced Recovery Model, Perceptual Adjustment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), education in the latest neuroscience research. This workbook is also a broad assessment tool and the following scales, screens, and inventories are included: experential substance use inventory using color coding, the Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST), Scale of Seven Key Holistic Recovery Areas, the Dissociative Experiences Scale II (DES), timeline of emotional/mental health and addiction challenges, family history assessment and genogram, Positive Intents and States of Addiction Assessment, Cost Benefits Assessment (CBA), Vulnerability to Stress Scale, Life Events and Stress Scale, Early Warning Signs Assessment (for both mental health and addiction challenges), Past Relapse and Triggers Assesment. The Integrated Dual Recovery Workbook is used by Full Circle Counseling and Wellness (fullcirclewnc.org), and Recovering Self Counseling (recoveringselfcounseling.com). It is not in becoming someone different but only when identifying and embracing who we are, the process of recovery seems to unfold. - Matt Bram

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Matt Bram is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (LPCS), Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist (LCAS), and Master Addiction Counselor (MAC) with over 20 years experience working with adolescents and adults. He has worked with a variety of challenges and specializes in integrated dual diagnosis treatment (working with co-occurring emotional/mental health and addiction issues). Matt also specializes in working with marriage, family, separation and divorce issues (Gottman Model). He is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) a trauma focused therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Adlerian Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for trauma, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), the Enhanced Recovery Model, Impact Therapy, and Perceptual Adjustment Therapy. Matt draws on his own lived recovery experience as well. His therapeutic approach entails a recovery and nurturance model. Ultimately his approach centers around integrating and reclaiming aspects of self.

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