Welcome
Phase I: What?- Challenge to Change
1. Building Trust and Motivation to Change
2. Building a Knowledge Base
3. Talking About Yourself and Listening to What Others Say
4. Backsliding to Drugs and Crime
5. Making a Commitment to Change
Phase II: How?- Commitment to Change
6. Basic Communication Skills
7. Avoiding Trouble and Playing Fair
8. Responsibility to Others and the Community
9. Zeroing in on Harm-Directing Thoughts
10. Handling Anger, Guilt and Depression
Phase III: Now!- Ownership of Change and Calling the Shots
11. Overcoming Prejudice
12. Exploring Individual Intimacy
13. Problem Solving and Decision Making
14. Lifestyle Balance
15. Stability and Growth
Harvey B. Milkman, PhD received his baccalaureate degree from City
College of New York and his doctorate from Michigan State
University. He is currently professor of psychology at Metropolitan
State College of Denver. His doctoral research was conducted with
William Frosch, MD, at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in New York
City, on the User’s Drug of Choice. From 1980–1981, he completed a
sabbatical exploration of addictive behavior in Africa, India, and
Southeast Asia; in 1985 he was recipient of a Fulbright-Hays
Lectureship award at the National University of Malaysia. He has
represented the United States Information Agency as a consultant
and featured speaker in Australia, Brazil, Iceland, The
Netherlands, Peru, Turkey, and Yugoslavia. He is principle author
with Stanley Sunderwirth of “The Chemistry of Craving,” and author
of “Better than Dope,” featured articles in Psychology Today,
October, 1983 and April, 2001 respectively. From September
1992–June 2002, he was author, principal investigator, and director
of Project Self-Discovery: Artistic Alternatives for High-Risk
Youth, a national demonstration model funded by The Center for
Substance Abuse Prevention and the Edward Byrne Foundation.
Kenneth W. Wanberg, ThD, PhD, has worked as a clinician and
researcher in the field of alcohol and drug abuse for more than
four decades, specializing in the intersection of criminal
conduct and substance abuse.
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