Alcohol and Drug Treatment
in Ontario: A Guide for Helping Professionals
This booklet is designed to help health and social service professionals who are
not addiction specialists get clients started on the road to treatment. The guide
summarizes the options available in Ontario's treatment system, including assessment
and referral services and self-help groups.
44 pages
Package of 25: $35.75
Product Code PZZ93
The Hidden Majority
A Guidebook on Alcohol and Other Drug Issues for Counsellors Who Work with Women
The Hidden Majority is a practical guidebook that helps professional counsellors,
social workers, therapists, shelter workers and physicians better understand the
context of women's substance use and intervene effectively on issues related to women's
use.
Topics include:
- how alcohol and other drugs specifically affect women's bodies, and why these
effects are more pronounced in older women
- the three factors that most influence women's substance use, and an in-depth
discussion of each
- the connection between substance use and eating disorders such as anorexia.
Published 1996
219 pages * $29.95
ISBN 0-88868-256-5
Product Code: P567
Asking the Right Questions: Talking
about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity during Assessment for Drug and Alcohol
Concerns
Angela M. Barbara, Gloria Chaim and Farzana Doctor
To provide effective substance use treatment, therapists need to be aware of issues
surrounding sexual orientation and/or gender identity that may be related to their
clients' substance use behaviours. Asking the Right Questions will help therapists
create an environment where all clients feel comfortable talking about their sexual
orientation and gender identity.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and transsexual (LGBT) people have specific
life factors that relate to substance use, factors that include the "coming
out" process, societal oppression, loss of family support, and the predominance
of bars in LGBT communities. To help therapists explore these concerns with clients,
the manual includes interview items that can be used to facilitate discussion during
assessment or early in treatment planning.
Asking the Right Questions includes:
- an assessment questionnaire to be used with a standard substance use (or other
service) assessment
- a guide to help therapists use the assessment instrument
- a glossary of concepts and terms.
Published 2002
48 pages
$9.95
ISBN 0-88868-418-5
Product Code: P166
Cooling Out
This two-part video is designed to help anyone who deals with the public and faces
disruptive behaviour such as threats, sexual harassment, destruction of property,
assault or other behaviour that could pose a threat to personal safety.
Using realistic scenes, Part 1 explains how to identify triggers that could provoke
disruptive behaviour. Part 2 illustrates the techniques that can be used to prevent
a situation from escalating, and also looks at the relationship between substance
use and disruptive behaviour. An informative training video for anyone working with
the public.
Released 1994
Video (30 minutes)
$39.95 t Ontario
$49.95 outside Ontario
Product Code: PV195
Everybody's Business
A How-To Guide for Establishing a Withdrawal Management Service in Your Community
Dennis Bernardi and Joanne Bezzubetz
Everybody's Business is a practical tool to help you implement or develop
a cost-effective withdrawal management service tailored to the needs, resources and
services in your community -- regardless of your location.
The guide is divided into four sections: Getting Started; Designing a Community-Based
Withdrawal Management Service; Getting Ready to Deliver Your Service; and After Your
Service Is Operating.
Well-organized and clearly written, Everybody's Business is an essential
tool for addiction service providers and planners, and concerned members of the community
who are interested in mobilizing and organizing local withdrawal management groups.
Published 1999
159 pages * $34.95 Ontario
$39.95 outside Ontario
ISBN 0-88868-336-7
Product Code: PG071
Choosing to Change: A Client-Centred
Approach to Alcohol and Medication Use by Older Adults
Choosing to Change is a practical handbook for staff of health and social
service agencies, people working in addiction treatment programs and anyone who comes
into contact with older adults experiencing problems related to their use of alcohol
and/or psychoactive medications. The book uses brief case histories to illustrate
the distinct nature of alcohol and medication use among people in this age group,
includes a monitoring form that can help people keep track of their drinking and
provides answers to questions such as:
- How can the signs of problems with alcohol or medication use be distinguished
from the signs of age-related illnesses?
- How does alcohol interact with commonly prescribed medications?
- Which strategies work best to overcome an older person's resistance to change?
Choosing to Change takes a holistic approach that accepts harm reduction,
or reduced substance use, as a goal of treatment.
Published 1998
116 pages
$24.95 Ontario
$29.95 outside Ontario
ISBN 0-88868-309-X
Product Code: PG096
Dealing with Drinking
This pamphlet defines and explains problem drinking, and suggests steps to drinking
more sensibly. Dealing With Drinking is an aid to those concerned by their
own or someone else's drinking habits.
Package of 25: $21.25t
Product Code: P391
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
As a recovering alcoholic, Mary Atkins fears that drinking during her pregnancy
has hurt her children. Now an alcoholism counsellor, Mary shares her story in this
video. The video examines the dangers of drinking during pregnancy and explains fetal
alcohol syndrome. An excellent resource for prenatal-class teachers, public health
nurses and libraries.
Released 1992
Video (13 minutes)
$49.95 Ontario
$59.95 outside Ontario
Product Code: PV102
First Contact
A Brief Treatment for Young Substance Users
Curtis Breslin, Kathy Sdao-Jarvie, Elsbeth Tupker and Shelly Pearlman
Most young people tend to drop out early from extended outpatient treatment for
substance use. First Contact is a brief treatment program designed for counsellors
working with adolescents and young adults who have substance use problems. Designed
to strengthen clients' motivation and commitment to change, this outpatient program
combines elements of cognitive-behavioural and motivational interviewing approaches.
The program can be a "first-step" for youth with substance use problems,
fostering motivation for change before addressing more specialized or long-term needs.
The program includes exercises on topics such as:
- costs and benefits of changing
- setting goals and monitoring results
- identifying high-risk situations for alcohol or drug use
- learning about the change process and how to sustain change over time
- coping with relapse
Published 1999
67 pages
$24.95 Ontario * $29.95 outside Ontario
ISBN 0-88868-355-3
Product code: PG100
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