A Compassionate Approach for Helping People with Trauma, Addiction, or Both Explore Their Past

Creating Change: A Past-Focused Treatment for Trauma and Addiction by Lisa M. Najavits offers counselors a gentle, compassionate approach to help people with trauma, addiction, or both explore their past. Dr. Najavits guides clients to understand how trauma and addiction arose over time, grieve losses and regrets, create a new perspective on their life story, and take pride in their survival. The manual has 23 topics that can be implemented in any order with individuals or groups. The book has a convenient large-size format and includes 83 reproducible handouts and clinical tools, many of which can be downloaded and printed at the companion website.

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