Terence T Gorski: 12 books

Terence T. Gorski is president of The CENAPS Corporation (The Center for Applied Sciences). CENAPS is a research, training, and consultation organization that specializes in the treatment of addictive and co-addictive disease. In his nearly twenty years of experience with the recovery process, Terry...

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO LEARN HOW TO LOVE When you fall in love you may be repeating bad relationship habits that you learned growing up or in a previous unhealthy relationship. No matter what your history, Getting Love Right can explain how to build and maintain healthy intimacy, including: *...

Passages through Recovery presents an action plan for preventing relapse, one that can help us understand how recovery works and what is needed to move from active addiction to sobriety. "Abstinence from alcohol and other drugs is only the beginning of sobriety. It's the ticket to get into...

Welcome to Brief Strategic Problem-Solving Group Therapy. If you're reading this book because you've decided to join a problem-solving group, congratulations! You've found the most advanced, most effective technique available. Don't worry, though: It may be advanced, but it's very easy to use, with clear...

Relapse prevention support groups are an innovative approach to recovery. The concept grew out of the desperate need of relapse-prone people to recover. Relapse support groups are self-help groups designed to support the growing number of recovering people who are using relapse prevention therapy as...

Suicide is a major problem in the United States. The goal of this book is to explain, in simple, no-nonsense language how to recognize people who may be suicidal, take action to prevent suicide attempts, and effectively manage suicide attempts should they occur. It is written for the person who is thinking...

This book will show you how to run problem-solving group therapy sessions. It focuses it focuses on practical techniques rather than theory. The problem-solving group format does several things. It rapidly established an effective group atmosphere that allows individual group members to work on different...

This work addresses the special problems of craving that nearly all addicts struggle with throughout their recovery. In developing the model of craving presented in this work, the author has drawn extensively from The CENAPS (The Center for Applied Sciences) Model of Relapse Prevention and from the work...

Depression is a significant complicating factor in recovery from substance use disorders. Nearly all substance abusers show significant depression in the first several weeks of recovery. In most cases, the depression quickly subsides. Others, however, suffer from serious bouts of depression throughout...

This book is for recovering people, their families, and addiction professionals who want to understand psychological and spiritual thinking about addiction on a deep level. I have been working on this book for a long time. There are complex psychological and spiritual issues that need to be addressed...

We all have mistaken notions and dangerous attitudes about many things. Mistaken beliefs about relapse can have destructive consequences. The first step in preventing relapse is to understand what it is and what it is not. The second step is to challenge your own beliefs about it. If you are relapse...

Whether you know it or not, accurate information is your most important recovery tool. You cannot recover from something that you do not understand. Therefore, my primary goal is to help you understand what addiction is, how to recognize it when you see it, and what you can do about it when you do see...