SMART Recovery of Silicon Valley - Self Help and Local Meetings for Alcoholism and Addiction - Recommended Reading

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About our Lending Library

The 3 south bay SMART Recovery Meetings in the South Bay (San Jose Monday & Wednesday, and Los Gatos Friday), run a Netflix-style lending library out of the meetings. It basically works like this:

A number of the books to the right are a part of our lending library. If you are interested in borrowing one, come to any of the above-mentioned meetings on Mon-Weds-Fri. Ask any meeting facilitator about the book you are interested in, and we will procure it from our lending library, and bring it to the next meeting. Just give us a small cash deposit for the book, and keep it as long as you need to read it. Whenever you want you can swap it out with any facilitator for another book in our lending library. When you're done using our library we will refund you your deposit.

We feel this is a very useful service to offer and encourage our local SMART Recovery member to take advantage of this.

Books that are not listed as "Available in Lending Library" are still good reads and we recommend them, all books have links to online booksellers for purchase.

SMART Recovery Handbook

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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.

A Guide to Rational Living

A Guide to Rational Living
Albert Ellis

This classic book by Albert Ellis introduces Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT), and can teach any intelligent person how to stop feeling miserable about practically anything.

Changing for Good

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Changing for Good
James Prochaska Ph.D., John Norcross Ph.D. & Carlo DiClemente Ph.D.

This groundbreaking book offers simple self-assessments, informative case histories, and concrete examples to help clarify each stage and process. Whether your goal is to start saving money, to stop drinking, or to end other self-defeating or addictive behaviors, this revolutionary program will help you implement positive personal change...for life.

Heart of Addiction

Heart of Addiction: A New Approach to Understanding and Managing Alcoholism and Other Addictive Behaviors
Lance M. Dodes

Dodes argues that human emotions, not genetics or disease, is the central driver of addictive behavior. He presents a self-help guide that uses descriptions of case studies to demonstrate that addictive behavior is primarily about gaining a (false) sense of empowerment over feelings of helplessness.

Alcohol: How to Give It up

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Alcohol: How to Give It up and Be Glad You Did
Philip Tate, Albert Ellis (Introduction)

Written by a cognitive-behavioral psychologist, this book includes chapters on overcoming low self-esteem, depression, stress, attending self-help groups, and living a better life after quitting. Each chapter contains specific self-help techniques.

When AA Doesn't Work For You

When AA Doesn't Work For You: Rational Steps to Quitting Alcohol
Albert Ellis

This highly effective book deals with the thoughts and emotions of the problem drinker and provides step-by-step formula to discover, understand, and change them.

Recovery Options: The Complete Guide

Recovery Options: The Complete Guide
Joseph Volpicelli, Maia Szalavitz

In Recovery Options: The Complete Guide, you will learn what addiction is—and what it isn’t. You will examine both the mechanism of addiction and how you can make the best treatment choices . . . why some people are particularly prone to substance problems . . . and the genetic and learning mechanisms that help create these conditions.

Resisting 12-Step Coercion

Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment
Stanton Peele, Charles Bufe, Archie Brodsky

This book is a guide for the one million-plus Americans per year who face coerced religious indoctrination in the guise of alcohol or drug treatment.

Sober for Good: New Solutions for Drinking Problems

Sober for Good: New Solutions for Drinking Problems -- Advice from Those Who Have Succeeded
Anne M. Fletcher M.S. R.D.

The best-selling author Anne M. Fletcher asked hundreds of successfully sober men and women a simple question: how did you do it? The result is the first completely unbiased guide for problem drinkers.

Truth About Addiction and Recovery

Truth About Addiction and Recovery
Stanton Peele

In this revolutionary analysis of addiction, Peele and Brodsky draw on years of research to refute the contention that addictions are biologically based diseases that last a lifetime.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Changing Old Habits for Good

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Changing Old Habits for Good
Ph.D., G. Alan Marlatt

Written from a high-level perspective using current examples, this one-of-a-kind guide helps readers separate good habits from bad, evaluate the risks and benefits, prepare themselves for change, and make the change—for good.

Relapse Prevention, Second Edition

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Relapse Prevention, Second Edition: Maintenance Strategies in the Treatment of Addictive Behaviors
G. Alan Marlatt PhD

This important work elucidates why relapse is so common for people recovering from addictive behavior problems--and what can be done to keep treatment on track. It provides an empirically supported framework for helping people with addictive behavior problems develop the skills to maintain their treatment goals, even in high-risk situations, and deal effectively with setbacks that occur.

Get Your Loved One Sober

Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening.
Robert J. Meyers Ph. D., Brenda L. Wolfe Ph.D.

The first general consumer book ever on the powerful, award-winning, scientifically proven new system of intervention that is turning the recovery field on its head.

Handbook of Alcoholism Treatment Approaches

Handbook of Alcoholism Treatment Approaches (3rd Edition) Handbook of Alcoholism Treatment Approaches (3rd Edition)
Reid K. Hester, William R. Miller

The Handbook of Alcoholism Treatment Approaches is a comprehensive, results-based guide to alcohol treatment methods. This handbook surveys the various models that have been used to define alcoholism, ending with a discussion of what the authors call "an informed eclecticism."

Managing Addictions: Cognitive, Emotive, And Behavioral Techniques

Managing Addictions: Cognitive, Emotive, And Behavioral Techniques
F. Michler Bishop

Addressing not only substance abuse, but also shopping, eating, gambling, and sexual behaviors, the book considers such issues as assessment, denial, dual diagnosis, anxiety, shame and guilt.

Motivational Interviewing, Second Edition

Motivational Interviewing, Second Edition: Preparing People for Change
William R. Miller Phd, Stephen Rollnick PhD, William R. Miller, Stephen Rollnick

This revised and expanded second edition now brings MI practitioners and trainees fully up to date. William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick explain how to work through ambivalence to facilitate change, present detailed guidelines for using their approach, and reflect on the process of learning MI.

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