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Driving With CARE®:  Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Impaired Driving Therapy and Treatment Strategies for Responsible Living and Change: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach
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Driving With CARE®: Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Impaired Driving Therapy and Treatment Strategies for Responsible Living and Change: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach
The Participant's Workbook, Therapy and Treatment

Second Edition


December 2019 | 248 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Driving With Care by Anjali Nandi, Kenneth W. Wanberg, David. S. Timken, and Harvey B. Milkman  is a three-level education / treatment program targets judicial clients who have been convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. This second edition includes the following components:

  • Provider's Guide: Offers guidelines for developing individualized treatment plans and implementing appropriate education and treatment curriculum protocol
  • Participant's Workbook: Level I Education: Six-session, 12-hour DWI education program designed for first-time offenders
  • Participant's Workbook: Level II Therapy: 21-session, 42-hour program designed for clients with higher levels of AOD disruption and psychosocial problems who need intervention over longer periods of time
  • Participant's Workbook: Level II Education: 12-session, 24-hour education program for impaired driving offenders who have at least minimal indicators of past problems associated with AOD use or misuse and whose arrest blood-alcohol-content was at the impaired driving level

About the Program 

What Do Mental Health Providers Get With the DWC Program?

  1. Comprehensive overview of cognitive behavioral treatment for impaired driving offenders
  2. Thorough review of theory and practice related to client evaluation
  3. Legal and cultural considerations
  4. Operational procedures for assessing and matching DWI offenders to appropriate levels of education and treatment services
  5. Guidelines for developing individualized treatment plans

What Will DWC Participants Learn?

  • Change in behavior is made by changing their thoughts, attitudes and beliefs
  • How to take an active part in the process with exercises, worksheets and group discussion
  • Self-control over thinking and actions, responsible behavior towards others and the community

 
Introduction: Welcome to Driving With Care
 
Session 1. Program Orientation: Understanding and Engaging the Process of Change
 
Session 2. Program Orientation: Tools and Targets for Change
 
Session 3. Pathways to Alcohol and Other Drug Use Problem Outcomes and Addiction
 
Session 4. AOD Problem Outcomes and Patterns
 
Session 5. Managing Cravings and Urges
 
Session 6. Skills in Cognitive Self-Control: Recognizing and Changing Negative Thoughts and Negative Thinking
 
Session 7. Skills in Cognitive Self-Control: Recognizing and Changing Errors in Thinking
 
Session 8. Skills in Cognitive Self-Control: Managing Emotions, Stress, and Depression
 
Session 9. Skills in Cognitive Self-Control: Recognizing and Managing Anger
 
Session 10. Social and Relationship Skills Building: Learning Communication Tools and Skills
 
Session 11. Social and Relationship Skills Building: Starting and Keeping a Conversation Going
 
Session 12. Social and Relationship Skills Building: Giving and Receiving Positive Reinforcement - Praise
 
Session 13. Social and Relationship Skills Building: Learning Problem Solving
 
Session 14. Social and Relationship Skills Building: Assertiveness Skills Development
 
Session 15. Social and Relationship Skills Building: Learning and Practicing Refusal Skills
 
Session 16. Social Skills Building: Developing and Keeping Intimate and Close Relationships
 
Session 17. Strengthening Recidivism and Relapse Prevention Skills
 
Session 18. Relapse and Recidivism Prevention
 
Session 19. Community Responsibility Skills: Strengthening Character and Prosocial Values and Behavior
 
Session 20. Community Responsibility Skills: Understanding and Practicing Empathy
 
Session 21. Community Responsibility and Relationship Skills: Resolving Conflicts and Negotiation Skill Development
 
Session: Closure
 
Client Progress Report
 
Assessing Weekly Risk
Key features
  • Exercises to attain self-control over feelings and emotions and behavior outcomes;
  • Exercises to develop strategies and skills to manage and improve family and interpersonal relationships
  • Exercises to develop strategies and skills to increase responsible behavior in the community