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Explore our collection of premium, interactive digital resources—designed to reduce prep time and elevate your clinical practice. All items on this page are accessible through purchase or eligible membership tiers.

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📚 Explore Our Full Library of Interactive eBooks & Clinical Tools

Below is our expanding library of self-paced, CE-approved eBooks designed for both early-career and advanced professionals. Every guide is interactive, customizable, and built to save you time in session prep.

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Addiction-Informed Case Management: A Clinician’s Guide to Coordinated Care & Client Advocacy

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This practical guide offers clinicians a structured yet flexible approach to managing client care in substance use treatment settings. Rooted in real-world challenges, the workbook helps professionals develop essential case management skills that blend coordination, advocacy, and ethical practice with compassion and clarity.

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Clinician’s Guide to Promoting Wellbeing in Addiction Recovery

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This guide explores the full spectrum of wellness in recovery—including emotional, physical, relational, and purpose-driven dimensions. Designed for clinicians and recovery professionals, it provides a practical, research-aligned roadmap for supporting clients in building sustainable, meaningful lives beyond substance use.

You’ll find reflections, strategies, and structured tools rooted in real-world experience and trauma-informed care, tailored to both early recovery and long-term resilience.

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Confronting Addiction: A Guide to Having Difficult Conversations

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A hands-on workbook designed to help clinicians, counselors, and frontline staff navigate the realities of substance use treatment with clarity and confidence.

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Navigating Ethical Challenges in Addiction Treatment

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This guide equips behavioral health professionals with practical strategies for addressing real-world ethical challenges in addiction treatment. Covering key topics like dual relationships, confidentiality, documentation, and supervision, it combines clinical insight with scenario-based reflection. Designed for early-career and seasoned clinicians alike, it supports ethical clarity, confidence, and professional integrity in daily practice.

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Recognizing Signs and Symptoms of Addiction

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This reference guide outlines common signs and symptoms seen across various substance use presentations and mental health comorbidities. It supports early identification, better screening, and more effective communication with clients and interdisciplinary teams.
Ideal for new professionals, interns, and support personnel in fast-paced or high-volume treatment settings.

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Tailoring Treatment: Adapting Treatment Approaches for Every Generation

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This flexible, practitioner-friendly workbook equips clinicians and frontline staff with the tools needed to individualize treatment in real time. Whether working in harm reduction, outpatient, or recovery-oriented settings, this guide offers practical frameworks to help you adjust interventions based on client needs, barriers, and cultural considerations. With a strong emphasis on clinical decision-making, this guide supports a responsive, realistic approach to client care that moves beyond one-size-fits-all.

From treatment planning to change strategies, “Tailoring Treatment” helps you meet clients where they are—while still aiming high.

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The Silent Victims: Addressing the Impact of Addiction on Children and Families

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The Silent Victims brings much-needed attention to the often-overlooked family members affected by substance use. This guide introduces evidence-informed strategies to help clinicians recognize trauma dynamics within families, address codependency and communication issues, and foster safe, healing environments. Whether working with parents, partners, or children, readers will find real-world tools and conversation frameworks to navigate sensitive topics with confidence.

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Trauma and Addiction: A Clinician’s Guide to Healing and Recovery

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Trauma and Addiction is an experiential guidebook created for behavioral health professionals who work with clients impacted by both trauma and substance use. This workbook explores the intersection of trauma responses and addictive behaviors, offering clinical insight, reflection prompts, and trauma-informed interventions for frontline providers. It supports healing-focused care with an emphasis on empathy, safety, and self-awareness.

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Cultural Competency Guide – Coming Soon

This practical guide equips clinicians with the tools needed to deliver culturally responsive, equitable addiction treatment. Through real-world examples, reflection prompts, and actionable resources, it supports providers in building empathy, reducing disparities, and honoring client identities and lived experiences.

Covers:

  • Cultural humility framework
  • Bias recognition strategies
  • Sample cultural assessment forms
  • Case studies from diverse communities

This upcoming guide delivers practical tools to strengthen inclusive, respectful client care.

Join the waitlist to get notified when it’s released and gain early access to exclusive companion tools.

Estimated Release: Spring 2026

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Cultural Competency Waitlist

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CE Course Coming Soon – Coming Soon

This 5-hour self-paced course is designed to enhance clinical awareness and confidence when working with individuals in early addiction, co-occurring conditions, or unclear diagnoses. It provides an in-depth look at how addiction presents across populations and offers practical strategies for recognizing early, acute, and masked symptoms.

You’ll explore:

  • The difference between signs vs. symptoms

  • Clinical red flags often missed in intake or early treatment

  • Cultural, behavioral, and neuropsychological indicators of substance use

  • Case-based decision-making to strengthen recognition skills

📚 Already Available: The full resource guide is live in our store and can be used now

Coming Soon: This course is currently pending CE approval through NAADAC. You’ll earn 5 CE hours upon launch.

🗓 Estimated CE Release: Mid to Late Summer 2025

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Breaking Barriers – Coming Soon

This upcoming guide offers clinicians a compassionate, evidence-informed framework for supporting LGBTQIA+ clients through the addiction and recovery journey. Developed with cultural humility and intersectionality at its core, Breaking Barriers includes:

  • Clinical guidance on affirming care across diverse identities and experiences
  • Scenarios and case studies for reflective practice
  • Tools to help clients explore identity safety, stigma, and resilience
  • Strategies for addressing minority stress and internalized shame in treatment

Designed for individual therapists, group facilitators, and programs ready to do better by queer and trans clients.

Estimated Release: December 1, 2025

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Closing the Divide – Coming Soon

This enhanced eBook explores the deep-rooted gender disparities in addiction care—and offers concrete strategies for closing the gap. Designed for seasoned clinicians, advocates, and program directors, this guide includes:

  • Data-driven insights on gender differences in access, engagement, and outcomes
  • Real-world case studies and reflection prompts
  • Worksheets and trauma-informed tools tailored by gender identity
  • Strategies for building inclusive, gender-responsive recovery systems

Join the waitlist to get notified when it’s released and receive early access to exclusive companion tools.

Estimated Release: October 31, 2025

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Parenting in Recovery – Coming Soon

This upcoming resource is designed to help clinicians support clients navigating both recovery and parenthood. The Parenting in Recovery workbook explores strategies for rebuilding trust, establishing stability, and fostering meaningful communication between parents and children.

Whether used in family therapy or individual treatment, this guide includes:

  • Evidence-informed parenting strategies

  • Tools for restoring structure and safety at home

  • Guided activities to promote connection and resilience

  • Session-ready prompts and clinician insights

Built for therapists, counselors, and parenting specialists, this resource will be released in Spring 2026.

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Parenting in Recovery Waitlist