Choice Awareness: Logotherapy and Mindfulness Training for Addictions Treatment
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Table of Contents
1: From Psychology of Disease to Psychology of Choice
2: The Change Equation
3: Freedom to Change: Conceptual Differentiation
4: Cultivating Strategic Freedom to Change (Choice Awareness Training Part I)
5: Cultivating Tactical Freedom to Change (Choice Awareness Training Part II)
6: Recovery Autopilot
7: Choice Awareness Check
8: Chess as a Choice Awareness Practice
9: Evaluation: Clients’ Reactions to Choice Awareness Training
Choice Awareness: Logotherapy and Mindfulness Training for Addictions Treatment
Copyright © 2008 by Pavel Georgievich Somov, Ph.D.
All rights reserved.
ISBN 978-0-557-02611-1
INTRODUCTION
Modern psychology has not paid much attention to how much complicated action may be performed automatically.
Ellen J. Langer (Mindfulness, 1989)
The book introduces a tri-partite change equation consisting of the following three change variables: freedom-to-change, reason-to-change, and method-to-change. The freedom-to-change construct is conceptually differentiated from the construct of self-efficacy, and is operationalized through Choice Awareness Training.
Choice Awareness Training, which involves a combination of Logotherapy and modified Mindfulness training, is introduced as an element of the overall clinical curriculum for substance use and compulsive spectrum clinical presentations. The book reviews a curriculum of discussions and exercises designed to challenge cognitive-behavioral automaticity and freedom-restricting belief schemas that constitute phenomenological barriers to one’s perceived freedom-to-change.
The book concludes with a sample of qualitative evaluative data from client participants obtained from a 2002-2003 pilot of Choice Awareness Training in the context of a residential, correctional drug and alcohol treatment program in an American jail.