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This 39-minute program focuses specifically on early recovery, teaching the viewers to prepare for the challenging high-risk situations they will inevitably encounter in their first weeks and months back in the community. Specifically, it covers these essential teaching points:

* Make a housing plan before leaving prison or rehab

* Arrange to live in a safe and sober housing situation

* Avoid living with any active drug or alcohol abusers

* Get rid of any drug supplies or paraphernalia you still have

* Prepare to handle the inevitable triggers and cravings

* Plan ahead to handle running into "get-high buddies" and dealers

* Put together a support system--and use it

This 40-minute program focuses on coping with the various powerful emotions that come up in early recovery ( and throughout life)--without drugs or alcohol. It teaches the viewer to anticipate and prepare for " emotional danger zones." Topics include:

* Specific tools for dealing with feelings, such as

--"Sit through them" without using

--Get the feelings out: talk, cry, write, find some physical release

-- Find ways to clam and soothe yourself

* Specific emotional "dangerzones," with examples of how to cope with each:

-- Anger

-- Feelings related to racism and discrimination

-- Shame

-- Feelings related to past abuse

-- Guilt

-- Self-pity

-- Feelings stemming from chronic illness, such as HIV

Thinking errors are revealed in vivid and dramatic encounters between inmates.

You can earn 4 hours of Continuing Education Units based on Dr. Samenow's series Commitment to Change, Overcoming Errors in Thinking at CEUMatrix.com.

Correcting errors in thinking is basic. The other half is the BEHAVIOR that results from these thoughts.

You can earn 4 hours of Continuing Education Units based on Dr. Samenow's series Commitment to Change Tactics: Habits that Block Change at www.ceumatrix.com.

This 38-minute program focuses on dealing with relationships when the client is in early recovery (and beyond). It teaches the viewer to anticipate and prepare for the challenging high-risk situations that come up with families, partners and children. Topics include:

* Coping with an unsupportive or dysfunctional family

* Avoiding the trap of rescuing others

* Avoiding new romantic involvements for the first year

* Men's ans women's issues in early recovery

* Dealing with the triggers involved in sex

* Issues related to safe and sober sex

* Dealing with guilt over past parenting mistakes

* Coping with the stress of parenting in recovery

Part 8: Criminogenic Needs Domains:  Attitude Living in law-abiding ways Trust

Part 7: Criminogenic Needs Domains:  Personal/Emotional Orientation Control of one’s life; it includes decision-making, coping with stress, and mental health Cooperation

Part 6: Criminogenic Needs Domains: Community Functioning Knowledge and necessary skills for daily living; it includes residence, health, personal budgeting, leisure activities and the use of social services Gregariousness

Part 5:  Criminogenic Needs Domains: Substance Abuse Living without reliance on alcohol and/or drugs Intimacy

Part 4: Criminogenic Needs Domains:  Association/Social Interaction Non-criminal associates and the opportunity for positive interaction Friendship