Family Support Resources for Addiction and Mental Health Conditions

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Getting as complete an understanding as possible of your loved one’s substance abuse and mental health disorder helps give you and your family practical insights and understanding of their treatment and recovery. Well-supported scientific research has repeatedly shown that reading and studying books and articles, like these, to get as complete an understanding as possible of your loved one’s addiction and or mental health disorder helps your family in on-going recovery. Finding detox centers, addiction treatment centers and rehabs “near me” is just a click away on these website. We hope the following self help resources will prove helpful in your and your loved one’s on going recovery.

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Websites

National Institute of Mental Health

National Alliance on Mental Illness

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Mental Health America

Partnership to End Addiction Call 1-855-378-4373 to be connected with the Parent Helpline specialist

National Institute on Drug Abuse

Parent CRAFT by Cadence Online, An online video course that teaches parents the skills they need to meet the risks of substance abuse.

American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Faces & Voices of Recovery

American Board of Addiction Medicine

American Society of Addiction Medicine

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism,

Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Index to Drug-Specific Information

National Institute of Mental Health (NIH) database about FDA-approved drugs

National Domestic Violence Hotline, Call 1-800-799-7233 and TTY 1-800-787-3224.

Love is Respect National Dating Abuse Helpline, Call 1-866-331-9474 or TTY 1-866-331-8453

National Resource Center on Domestic Violence

Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network’s (RAINN) National Sexual Assault Hotline, Call 800-656-HOPE (4673) to be connected with a trained staff member from a sexual assault service provider in your area.

Books

Foote, J., Wilkens, C., et all, 2014, Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change, Scribner, New York, NY, 320 p.

Meyers, R. J. and Wolfe, B. L., 2004, Get Your Loved One Sober Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading and Threatening, Hazelden, Center City, MN, 273 p.

Meyers, R. J. and Wolfe, B. L., 2008, Motivating Substance Abusers to Enter Treatment, Guilford, New York, NY, 289 p.

Sheff, D., 2008, Beautiful Boy, Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY, 326 p.

Scheff, D., 2013, Clean, Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY, 378 p.

Pipher, M., 1996, The Shelter of Each Other, Rebuilding Our Families, Random House, New York, NY, 282 p.

Fletcher, A., 2013, Inside Rehab: The Surprising Truth About Addiction Treatment- How to Get Help That Works, Penguin Group, New York, NY, 448 p.

Miller, W. and Rollnick, S. Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, Guilford Press, New York, NY, 482 p.

Frankl, Viktor, 1959, Man’s Search for Meaning, Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 165 p.

Jerole, Kreisman, J. J., Strauss, H., 2010, I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me, Understanding the Borderline Personality, Penguin Random House, New York, NY,

Miller, W.R., Forcehimes, A., Zweben, A., 2011, Treating Addiction, Guilford Press, New York, NY, 464 p

American Psychiatric Association (APA), 2013, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.), APA, Philadelphia, PA, 947 p.

Dunn, H. L., 1961, High-Level Wellness: A Collection of Twenty-Nine Short Talks on Different Aspects of the Theme “High-Level Wellness for Man and Society, Arlington, VA: Beatty.

Linehan, M. M., 2015, DBT Skills Training Manual, Guilford Press, New York, NY, 504 p.

Linehan, M. M., 1993, Coginitive Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder, Guilford Press, New York, NY, 558 p.

W., Bill., S., Dr. Bob, 1953, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Alcoholics Anonymous Worldwide Services, New York, NY, 192 p.