Group Exercises for Substance Use Disorders Counseling

Geri Miller

• 01 september 2025
• 9781394280056

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A current collection of in-person, online, and hybrid group exercises for use by practicing substance use disorder practitioners

Now in its second edition, Group Exercises for Substance Use Disorders Counseling, is an up-to-date resource for prospective and practicing practitioners who work with clinical populations that struggle with substance use disorders (SUD) in a group setting. As an experienced mental health and SUD clinician, Geri Miller, Ph.D., presents a collection of tried-and-true group exercises in an easy-to-understand language and an easily accessible format.

The exercises address many of the common issues encountered by practitioners working with the diverse SUD population. The exercises enhance the SUD population’s self-awareness of their behaviors, conditions, and triggers as well as the stressors they experience. The exercises also assist the SUD population in their management of these areas thereby enhancing their recovery from the SUD.

Group Exercises for Substance Use Disorders Counseling offers:

• Practical, effective SUD group counseling exercises that work with a variety of individuals including especially vulnerable populations.
• Easy-to-follow instructions for clinical practitioners (including counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and social workers), engaged in working with the SUD population in the context of group therapy.
• Complimentary Instructor Website Teacher Resources [PowerPoints, Test banks, Considerations for Professors] as well as Student Website Resources [Cartoon Graphic Handout, Videos, Podcast] assist educators in a classroom setting as well as practitioners and their supervisors in a clinical setting.

Group Exercises for Substance Use Disorders Counseling is an excellent match for the work of mental health and SUD professionals who want to provide effective SUD treatment. It is also an excellent resource for students and trainees with an interest in working with the SUD population.

An expertly curated collection of effective group exercises for patients with addictions

In the newly revised second edition of Group Exercises for Substance Use Disorders Counseling, experienced addiction counselor, Geri Miller, delivers a practical collection of group therapy exercises for patients struggling with substance addictions. The author has drawn on over four decades of frontline experience treating addicted patients, as well as the latest research, evidence, and best practices, to curate a selection of group exercises that improve health outcomes among a wide variety of patient populations.

You’ll find useful group exercises accompanied by easy-to-understand instructions in an intuitively organized format. These exercises assist patients in the development of self-awareness of harmful behaviors and patterns and realistic strategies they can apply immediately to help address them.

They also help patients identify stressors and triggers and offer techniques to avoid or resist them. Inside the book:

• Practical group counseling exercises that work with patients from myriad backgrounds, including those belonging to especially vulnerable groups
• Easy-to-follow instructions for clinical practitioners, counselors, social workers, and other professionals conducting group therapy for addiction
• Complimentary PowerPoint resources to help educators in a classroom setting, as well as counselor supervisors conducting training

An essential and updated resource for mental health and addiction counselors, Group Exercises for Substance Use Disorders Counseling is an invaluable book for anyone involved in or studying substance abuse counseling and treatment.