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A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolution In the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history of American imprisonment from the days of slavery to the present, shows how a plantation-based penal system once dismissed as barbaric became the national template. Drawing on convict accounts, official records, and interviews with prisoners, guards, and lawmakers, historian Robert Perkinson reveals the Southern roots of our present-day prison colossus. While conventional histories emphasize the North's rehabilitative approach, he shows how the retributive and profit-driven regime of the South ultimately triumphed. Most provocatively, he argues that just as convict leasing and segregation emerged in response to Reconstruction, so today's mass incarceration, with its vast racial disparities, must be seen as a backlash against civil rights. Illuminating for the first time the origins of America's prison juggernaut, Texas Tough points toward a more just and humane future.

Chemical Dependency Counseling, Second Edition, one of the best-selling treatment manuals for chemical dependency, combines the traditional twelve-step program with cognitive behavioral theory and motivational enhancement. New to the Second Edition is expanded coverage of psychopharmacologic treatment of mental disorders, intervention of family members, and prevention of adolescent substance abuse in conjunction with new information on gambling addiction and patient motivation. Using the American Society of Addiction Medicine chemical dependency treatment model—the model used by the leading chemical addiction centers in the world—the author provides a step-by-step guide complete with informational handouts, patient schedules, and assessment plans for patient-types.

This timesaving resource features: Treatment plan components for 44 behaviorally based presenting problems Over 1,000 prewritten treatment goals, objectives, and interventions-plus space to record your own treatment plan options A step-by-step guide to writing treatment plans that conform to the latest ASAM requirements and meet the requirements of most accrediting bodies, insurance companies, and third-party payors Includes new Evidence-Based Practice Interventions as required by many public funding sources and private insurers The Addiction Treatment Planner, Fourth Edition provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies, third-party payors, and state and federal agencies. New edition features empirically supported, evidence-based treatment interventions New treatment planning language based on the mandates of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Organized around 44 main presenting problems, including Adhd, borderline traits, eating disorders, gambling, impulsivity, psychosis, social anxiety, and substance abuse Over 1,000 prewritten treatment goals, objectives, and interventions-plus space to record your own treatment plan options Easy-to-use reference format helps locate treatment plan components by behavioral problem Designed to correspond with The Addiction Progress Notes Planner, Third Edition and Addiction Treatment Homework Planner, Fourth Edition Includes a sample treatment plan that conforms to the requirements of most third-party payors and accrediting agencies (including CARF, The Joint Commission (TJC), COA, and the NCQA) Additional resources in the PracticePlanners series: Progress Notes Planners contain complete, prewritten progress notes for each presenting problem in the companion Treatment Planners. Homework Planners feature behaviorally based, ready-to-use assignments to speed treatment and keep clients engaged between sessions.

The Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Client Workbook by Robert R. Perkinson is an evidence-based program that uses treatments including motivational enhancement, cognitive-behavioral therapy, skills training, medication, and 12-step facilitation. It provides a venue for clients to write down their thoughts and experiences as they progress through treatment. The Third Edition of the workbook takes the patient through all 12 steps of recovery and continues to include chapters on honesty and preventing relapse.

The bestselling treatment planning system for mental health professionals The Addiction Treatment Planner, Fifth Edition provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies, third-party payors, and state and federal agencies. New edition features empirically supported, evidence-based treatment interventions Organized around 43 behaviorally based presenting problems, including substance use, eating disorders, schizoid traits, and others Over 1,000 prewritten treatment goals, objectives, and interventions—plus space to record your own treatment plan options Easy-to-use reference format helps locate treatment plan components by behavioral problem Includes a sample treatment plan that conforms to the requirements of most third-party payors and accrediting agencies including CARF, The Joint Commission (TJC), COA, and the NCQA

In the past year both Time and Newsweek have run covers dealing with a new spiritual hunger in Americans. With violence filling the front pages we wonder if there is anything more to life, if there is anything right and good in the world that we can cling to. As we get older, confronting old age and death, we look for spiritual direction. Each week at least one book on the New York Times bestseller list deals with the spiritual journey of some person. God Talks teaches the reader how to receive communications directly from God. The reader asks God questions and gets answers back. Neale Donald Walsch's book Conversations with God just spent over 100 weeks on the bestseller list. In his book God talks to Neale, in this book God talks to you. Which book would you rather read? God Talks will have a major impact on the spiritual and secular community alike. Imagine how the world will change if people talk to God and God talks back. Dr. Robert R. Perkinson has been using these techniques for ten years at Keystone Treatment Center, and for everyone who tries, God speaks to the person directly and the person knows it is God--there is no doubt. Here are a few quotes from spiritual leaders who have read the book and practiced the exercises. Clergy Reviews Reverend Mark Holland, Canton United Methodist Church, 621 E. 4th Street, Canton, SD 57013 stated, 'After reading the book, I spent several minutes quieting myself, and then I asked God if there was a message for me. 'Mark I've missed you!' Although there were no words spoken, I felt this message very clearly. I was quite surprised. Daily I was involved with spiritual matters, praying, preaching, and counseling. Nevertheless, I discovered that God was lonely for me.' Reverend Dave Waldowski, Good Shepherd Community Church, 2100 W. Ralph Rogers Road, Sioux Falls, SD 57108-2643 stated, 'This book and tape do not only 'discuss' communication with God, moreover if you follow these simple principles you will 'experience' and 'hear' God's voice on a daily basis.' Reverend Al Peratt Sr., Ridgecrest Baptist Church, 200 West Rose Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57105 stated, 'Everybody should give themselves a break and try this book and tape. I give it to other Pastor's, choir members, rest home residents, VA residents, and of course my own family members.' Reverend Jalmer Eldal, 6001 West Essex Dr., Sioux Falls, SD 57106-1625 stated, 'One of the very best communicators of conscious contact with God is Dr. Robert Perkinson, a psychologist at Keystone Treatment Center. His book and tape on spirituality have helped hundreds of people experience contact with God.' Through special prayer and meditation techniques, the text shows the reader how to tune in God's voice, and then how to improve conscious contact with God. The reader is lead through all of the stages of the spiritual journey and given research and specific examples to make it easy to understand. Dr. Perkinson shares his personal experience, detailing his spiritual journey, doubt, struggles and faith. If you have been feeling empty inside and longing for something you don't really understand, that is God calling you home. Through this text you will experience the joy of a personal relationship with your closest friend and Father.

The Gambling Addiction Patient Workbook is a client workbook intended to walk the client through the recovery process of gambling addiction. It adheres to a 12-step approach to treatment and the workbook walks the client through self reflective activities and exercises meant to help them reflect upon the underlying causes and motivations causing their addiction. The workbook also contains specific chapters focused on honesty, relapse prevention and contains a personal recovery plan.

The addiction field has long needed a comprehensive set of exercises counselors could use to guide patients through good treatment. This 12-step treatment plan workbook for those addicted to gambling includes identifying character defects and relapse prevention.

Help your clients find the path to overcoming their addiction Alcoholics are one of the most difficult client groups to treat effectively. To preserve their way of life, they may lie about their problem or deny that one exists; that is the nature of this profoundly powerful disease. Yet if you can guide each of your clients through their own resistance towards the truth, not only will you be rewarded with starting them on the road to recovery, you will no doubt have saved their life as well. Achieving such a victory goes to the heart of being an addiction counselor; it is the experience of healing on a direct and tangible level. Treating Alcoholism provides a complete road map for assessing, diagnosing, and treating this multifaceted and tenacious illness. Detailed clinical information on the disease accompanies ready-to-use tools for practice. With a special emphasis on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, the author walks you through the first five steps of this established methodology in comprehensive detail, showing how to easily apply each one to treatment. Other useful resources in Treating Alcoholism include: * A sample treatment plan * Copies of alcohol screening tests (SMAST and CAGE questionnaires) * Tests for other potentially related problems such as gambling and sexual addiction * A sample behavioral contract for use with adolescents * Listings of additional resources The treatment of alcoholism is fraught with struggles and hazards for both client and caregiver. Written in a lively tone that resonates with the author's compassion for his own clients, Treating Alcoholism gives you reliable, up-to-date, and practice-tested information and materials you need to successfully confront this deadly disease and start your clients on the path to recovery.

The Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Client Workbook by Robert R. Perkinson is an evidence-based program that uses treatments including motivational enhancement, cognitive-behavioral therapy, skills training, medication, and 12-step facilitation. It provides a venue for clients to write down their thoughts and experiences as they progress through treatment. The Third Edition of the workbook takes the patient through all 12 steps of recovery and continues to include chapters on honesty and preventing relapse.