Courses tagged with "Addiction"
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21 Ways to Forgive
21 Ways to Forgive Course
21 Ways to Forgive, Plus Nine Reasons We Must Forgive. This book is a very easy-to-read biblical guide on how to forgive. It is illustrated and written in a very easy-to-understand and easy-to-apply-to-your-life format. It can be used in Personal Studies, Group Studies, Small groups, Sunday school, prison & jail ministry, and even with children. A Teacher's Manual & Study Guide are also available.
View Course →How can I help a loved one with a problem?
Enabling
Are you offering the wrong kind of help to your loved ones? A study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Raise the Bottom
You have heard, "They have to hit bottom before they get help." Why not raise the bottom?
View Course →When they don't want help
What can you do for your loved one when they don't want help?
View Course →Facing your problems
The path to pure joy.
View Course →What are your Triggers?
What are those things that trigger a response in your life? Do you let these triggers pull you down a destructive path?
View Course →If I don't help them, they won't love me
Many live with the fear that if they fail to help their family member with a problem, they will be responsible for their loved one never getting better. In this article we explore the misconception healthy people have about love. We address the relationship between the right kind of help and how love fits into the situation. A study guide for personal reflection or group discussion is at the end of this article.
View Course →Are you living with guilt that doesn't belong to you?
This resource examines why so many people struggle with guilt. How do you determine whether the guilt you are feeling is from God, the devil, or yourself? What are God's conditions to living without guilt? A study guide is at the end for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Moving on with Jesus
When your loved one is in trouble--moving on with Jesus. How do you decide when to help your loved one and when to leave them behind? Does moving on with Jesus mean you have to abandon your family? How do you know when your help in preventing God from doing what he wants to do in the life of your loved one? A study guide is at the end for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Delusion, Denial, Deception
Overcoming the trap of delusion, denial, deception. How easy is it for you to spot false beliefs in your own life? In the lives of others? How can you help your loved ones face the delusion in their lives? What are the steps you can take to overcome delusion and false beliefs in your life? The study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →How to respond when people hurt you
How can you love those who have hurt you? How can you bless those who curse you? WHat happens when you bless those who hurt you? What is God's plan regarding revenge? A study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Dealing with Shame
Dealing with Shame: How do I know if it is from God? Many people struggle with shame. What causes people to be confused about how God wants them to respond to shame? When is shame a delusion? What triggers your shame? How can you get out of the shame trap? A study guide is at the end to be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →The power of secrets in your life
What is the destructive power of secrets in your life? How can you find the way out of secret sins in your life? Who needs to know about your secret sins of the past? A study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Are you trying to change without changing?
What kind of change does God want to see in our lives? Are you a dysfunctional Christian? What is the process that God uses to bring change into our lives? Why don't some miracles last for people who have been healed? A study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Signs of drug use in your family.
A Parent's Guide to Drug Abuse
"A Parent's Guide to Drug Abuse" is a series of articles to help parents know how to prevent and recognize drug abuse in their children. There is also an article related to how a parent can avoid being an enabler. Compiled by Daryel Erickson from the Pacific Northwest Teen Challenge website, http://teenchallengepnw.com/resources.
View Course →Drug Abuse and Addiction
This seven-page article addresses the signs, symptoms, and help for drug problems and substance abuse. It begins with some basic reasons people abuse drugs, how drug abuse and addiction can develop and how it affects the brain. It also offers some practical ways a person can get off and stay off drugs. It ends with a discussion on what may cause an addict to relapse and what to do to get back on the right track toward recovery.
View Course →Drug Prevention Tools
Description for a document on drug prevention called, "Drug Prevention Tools" compiled by Daryel Erikson, found on www.Urbanministry.org and Teen Challenge Northwest website: www.teenchallengepnw.com/resources/prevention . This three-page document includes three articles related to drug prevention. The first article discusses with the "the 9 key elements of effective drug prevention curricula." The second article offers tips for facilitators from "Pathways to Prevention: Guiding Youth to Wise Decisions" a drug prevention curricula. The last article provided by Teen Challenge Northwest, USA suggest 12 drug prevention tips for parents.
View Course →Steps to Healthy Living
Boundaries in your mind
What areas of your thought life need new boundaries? How can you build boundaries in your mind? How can you protect the boundaries in your mind? What are the strategies that can help you attack evil thoughts whey they come into your mind? A study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Restoring Trust
How do you go about mending broken relationships? How do you know when it is the right time to restore a broken relationship? Who are the people you need to restore your relationship with? How easy is it for you to trust God? How is trusting God different from trusting other people? At the end there is a study guide for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →What's in your toolbox for life?
What are the tools you need for success in your life? How does one become effective at overcoming temptations to sin? What place do miracles and God's power have in overcoming problems?
View Course →Intervention
Drug Abuse Intervention
Family First http://family intervention.com/programs/drug-abuse - A series of articles that discuss various topics related to drug intervention. This seven-page document includes several articles related to drug abuse intervention and the role of family and friends in this process. It describes the importance of intervention, how family and friends create a codependency and in the end enable their love ones addiction. The articles helps loved ones to recognize this enabling problem and gives directions on what they can do to avoid this. The last article describes an "Intervention Letter" that offers 5 essential components.
View Course →Drug Intervention - Four Emotions Used by a Substance Abuser to Train Someone to Enable Them
This very practical article discusses the four emotions, hope, fear, sympathy and guilt that addicts use to manipulate the people who love them to enable them in their addiction. Addicts are master manipulators and they use the love and care of their parents, family members, or friends to support their addictive behavior. In the end, without knowing it, these well meaning people end up enabling their loved one in a addictive life style that will eventually destroy them.
View Course →Alcoholism
Understanding the Insanity of Alcoholism: How The Alcoholic Thinks
This brief three-page article by Jim La Pierre discusses how an alcoholic thinks and how this dysfunctional thinking affects their ability to seek and receive help. It also discuses many of the excuses alcoholics use for their condition.
View Course →Alcohol Addiction (Alcoholism) - Learn the Facts
This three-page article discusses some basic facts related to Alcoholism and how it affects a person and his life. It also addresses some signs of alcoholism and factors may put a person at risk of alcohol addiction.
View Course →Pornography
Pornography and Virtual Infidelity
This document contents six articles related to the topic of pornography. The articles deal with various aspects of the addiction of pornography and how it can affect the lives of the addicted person. The addiction of pornography in our society today affects the Non-Christians, Christians, men and women, young and old. Pornography is reaching into every aspect of life through the virtual reality of the internet. The articles also provide some reasons people get involved with pornography, its dangers and some practical steps on how to cure this addiction.
View Course →Toxic Porn, Toxic Sex: A Real Look at Pornography
This is a six-page article that takes a honest and hard look at the destructive power of pornography. He portrays it as a dangerous out of control fire that wants to destroy everyone and everything in its path. McConnell discusses 9 lies about women that porn tries to communicate and how pornography "makes a profit from the ruined lives of young women and entraps men" into addiction. He also explains the steps to porn addiction as well as some things a person can do to control and cure it. He declares that God is the real cure to addiction and a person can be set free.
View Course →The Serpent of Porn
This three-page article "The Serpent of Porn," by Steve Gallagher discussed the power of sexual temptation and its antidote based on Proverbs 5:1-3. The wise man, whose heart has been fortified with the Word of God, sees the devil behind this intoxicating temptation. He is as "crafty" as a serpent seeking to destroy its prey. This is a fitting picture of the man lured into pornography. This article is a serious warning to all who fall into the temptation of porn.
View Course →When Children View Pornography
No parent wants to think about his child viewing pornography, but it often happens, Rob Jackson in this three-page article discusses in a practical way what to do if or when your child is intentionally or unintentionally exposed to porn and how to prevent this from happening and what to do when it does happen.
View Course →3 Ways Porn Steals From Your Marriage
Are you allowing the enemy to steal from your marriage with pornography? Here are three ways porn steals from your marriage: 1. Porn steals honest and open communication from your marriage. 2. Porn steals a genuine unconditional love from your marriage. 3. Porn steals the utter relief of holiness from your marriage.
View Course →Eating Disorders
Helping Someone with an Eating Disorder
This five-page article addresses how to help people with three kinds of eating orders including, Anorexia, Bulimia and Binge eating, effectively offers several common eating disorder warning signs and discusses the four Myths of eating disorders. An important part of the article is the tips for parents who have children with eating disorders.
View Course →Eating Disorder Treatment and Recovery
Description for the article "Eating Disorder Treatment and Recovery," Jeanne Segal and Melinda Smith This article is part of a series of articles that discuss eating disorder and how to treat two of these, Anorexia and Bulimia. The article suggest four steps to treat these disorders and offers a list of coping skills "Do" and "Don't ." It also offers some tips that a person can use to improve their self-esteem which as been found to be a key to over-coming any eating disorder problem.
View Course →Emotional Eating - How to Recognize and Stop Emotional Eating
Found on www.HELPGUIDE.org. This five-page article, "Emotional Eating, How to Recognize and Stop Emotional Eating," analyzes emotional eating and how to identify it and the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger. The article also discusses the causes of emotional eating, alternatives to emotional eating four tips to controlling emotional eating.
View Course →Anorexia Nervosa, Signs, Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment
Found on www.HELPGUIDE.org. This six-page article, "Anorexia Nervosa, Signs, Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment," discusses what anorexia nervosa is, its different types, how it affects a person's life, its signs and symptoms, its risk factors, physical effects in women and steps to anorexia recovery.
View Course →Binge Eating Disorder, Symptoms, Causes, Treatment and Help
Found on www.HELPGUIDE.org. This five-page article, Binge Eating Disorder, Symptoms, Causes, Treatment and Help," define what binge eating is, the cycle of binge eating, signs and symptoms, the effects and its relationship to obesity. The article will also suggest 10 strategies for overcoming binge eating and how to help someone with this eating disorder.
View Course →Bulimia Nervosa, Signs, Symptoms, Treatment, and Help
Found on www.HELPGUIDE.org. This six-page article, "Bulimia Nervosa, Signs, Symptoms, Treatment, and Help," is part of a series of articles on eating disorders such as Bulimia Nervosa. The article discusses what Bulimia is, the binge and purge cycle related to this eating disorder, its signs and symptoms, health effects, causes and risk factors and steps to bulimia treatment and recovery.
View Course →Sexual Addiction
Giving Men Hope in the Face of Overwhelming Bondage
This two-page article by Steve Gallagher, "Giving Men Hope in the Face of Overwhelming Bondage," is written to men who are living their lives in sexual bondage and experiencing all the guilt, shame and hopelessness that this brings. He discusses 5 reasons for this hopelessness and contrasts them with 5 reasons for the hope found in God's Word and His plan of salvation.
View Course →Homosexuality
Various Articles on Homosexuality
This is a group of articles related to homosexuality and how Christian can reach them with the gospel.
View Course →Tracts
A Positive Cure for Drug Addiction
This article gives a very clear presentation to drug users, explaining 5 steps they can take to find freedom from drug addiction. Dave Wilkerson presents a biblical foundation for dealing with drug addiction. This can be personalized and published locally. Contact Global Teen Challenge for more details.
View Course →Principles of Discipleship
What to Do When Christian Discipleship Does Not Work
Some new Christians run into problems as they try to become a successful follower of Jesus. This course explores the reasons why some believe that Christian discipleship does not work for them. We also explore the realities of problems in the life of a new Christian and how Teen Challenge staff can help them overcome these problems and enable them to move ahead in their growth as a Christian.
View Course →Addictions
Addiction 101
This course briefly covers the basics of addiction. It begins with some of the history of substance abuse and contributing factors to someone becoming addicted. The course then looks at the four steps that lead to addiction and the affects of Drug addiction. Lastly it covers the steps to recovery and the key role of Christian Discipleship in that recovery process.
View Course →Prevention
Meth Project
The Meth Project Foundation was established by businessman Thomas M. Siebel in 2005 in response to the growing Meth epidemic in the U.S. The Meth Project is a large-scale prevention program aimed at reducing Meth use through public service messaging, public policy, and community outreach. Central to the program is a research-based marketing campaign and community action programs designed to communicate the risks of Meth use. The Meth Project is funded by a grant from the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation.
View Course →Underage Drinking Prevention Strategies
This two-page article addresses a variety of specific prevention strategies for a community, school, family and individuals that can be used to manage youth alcohol substance abuse. It also discusses the Characteristics of an effective "After-School Prevention Program."
View Course →Relapse
Understanding the Steps to Relapse
Edition: 2.4. This course examines the issues of relapse, addiction, recovery and healthy living. It discusses 37 symptoms of relapse and ways to prevent relapse from happening. It presents the characteristics that lead to addiction and life-controlling problems. It then goes on to speak about recovery and healthy living and what healthy living should look like. The videos available are bi-lingual, Spanish and English. Of the 5 video sessions, one is missing #4. We plan to have that available in the next few months.
View Course →Counseling Skills
Counseling The Drug Addict
This teaching on counseling the drug addict is being taught by David Wilkerson, founder of Teen Challenge. It was recorded in the late 1970's at Wilkerson's Twin Oaks Leadership Academy in Lindale, Texas. Wilkerson had been working with alcoholics, drug addicts, gang members and prostitutes for nearly 20 years at the time. The advice he gives future Teen Challenge workers is still useful today.
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Enabling
Are you offering the wrong kind of help to your loved ones? A study guide at the end can be used for...
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