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SMART Recovery® Handbook
SMART Recovery®
The enclosed materials will provide you with a number of tools and ideas to help you grow and develop toward your ultimate goal of recovery.
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UK Guardian article: US expert says positive thinking is the smart way to recover from alcoholism |
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SMART Recovery was featured in an article at guardian.co.uk. Read below for an excerpt, and click 'read more' for a link to the original article.
Excerpt:
Smart is a positive philosophy. "We believe that addiction is a very human condition that can be corrected, and that it's the people themselves who do that through natural recovery," he says. "We don't think people are hopelessly taken over by addiction. Other people use books, medicines, help from family or professionals, whatever works for them. But with Smart Recovery, people do it on their own. That belief that human beings have the capacity within themselves to overcome even severe addictions and go on to lead a meaningful life is vital."
Where AA has its Big Book, Smart has four key points and a "toolbox" – a set of ways in which problem drinkers can change their behaviour. For instance, if someone is feeling stressed at the end of their working day, they may choose to use the ABC tool. That is: A for the Activating Event, the walking out of work; B for the Belief, that the person needs a drink now to relax; and C for Consequences, that someone ends up drinking because of their stress.
Smart teaches participants ways to disrupt this irrational belief system by helping them understand why they act as they do – damaging their lives and relationships in the process – and to then challenge that thinking.
Full article available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/mar/10/alcoholism-treatment-smart-recovery-programme |
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