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Behaviors of Addiction

Behaviors of Addiction. By Brooke Nessen & Brittani Bailey. Text Set. Topic: Addictions (Eating Disorders & Drug Use) Grade Level: Highschool (9-12th grade) Reason: Addictions are a prevalent and growing problem especially with the age level we would present it to

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Behaviors of Addiction

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  1. Behaviors of Addiction By Brooke Nessen & Brittani Bailey

  2. Text Set • Topic: Addictions (Eating Disorders & Drug Use) • Grade Level: Highschool (9-12th grade) • Reason: • Addictions are a prevalent and growing problem especially with the age level we would present it to • Important for students to understand that there are other forms of addiction unrelated to drug use

  3. Go Ask Alice

  4. Go Ask Alice • By: Anonymous • Style: Memoir, Diary style- however no one knows if it’s real or fiction • Summary: About a teenage girl whose life spins out of control after she is slipped LSD in her drink at a party; downfall ultimately robbed her of her life • For 35 years, was the best-selling account of teenage girls perils with drugs • Use: Have whole class read book independently, then first discuss in small groups, then discuss main points and importance with class; possibly have students keep journal of their thoughts and feelings as they’re reading

  5. Addiction(also turned in to an award winning HBO documentary)

  6. Addiction • By: No author listed, just Publisher (Rodale Books, Editor (Susan Froemke), Afterword (author Susan Cheever) • Style: Informative Research Based with Personal Narratives • Summary: • Book sheds light on the hidden American epidemic of addiction by blending compelling personal narratives with statistics and expert opinion. • Shows impact of chemical dependency on addicts, their loved ones, society, and the economy. • Makes you look at things from a medical point of view- addicts are not just weak, but drugs alter chemical balances • Use: As read aloud, pick out certain parts we think students would find intriguing or that we find significant; also maybe show parts of the HBO documentary with it

  7. Beautiful Boy

  8. Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction • By: David Sheff • Style: Memoir (about author’s son) • Deemed “Outstanding Book for College Bound and Life Long Learners” by American Library Association • Summary: A teenager’s addiction from the parent’s point of view; intense and emotional story as he watches his varsity athlete, honor student son turn down a path of Meth addiction • Use: Book Club

  9. Bridges to Recovery

  10. Bridges to Recovery: Addiction, Family Therapy, and Multi-cultural Treatment • By: Jo-ann Krestan • Style: Research/ Personal Insight • Summary: • First book to bring together experts from three major fields within psychotherapy -- family therapy, addiction counseling and multicultural treatment • Provides a practical and flexible framework for working with families within their individual cultural contexts; • Provides unique insight into the individual cultural nuances that make addiction recovery a very personal journey. • Use: Take home reading (certain sections)/ homework- use this book to form assessments regarding different strategies among various cultures

  11. Winter Girls

  12. Winter Girls • By: Laurie Halse Anderson • Style: Fiction • Summary: Two girls who were once very close drifted apart into their own eating disorders; One’s death doesn’t stop the other from bouncing out of the disorder, and the book discusses her gruesome decomposition. • Use: Books Clubs- allows students to feel whatever emotions they want while reading and then be able to share with small groups if they’re comfortable

  13. Next To Nothing

  14. Next To Nothing • By: Carrie Arnold. & B. Timothy Walsh • Style: Personal Account • Summary: Broken down into simpler, easy to understand terms, this book discusses the authors seven year battle with anorexia starting during adolescence including her recovery and therapy; Also discusses people who are at risk for eating disorders and helps makes some sense of it • Use: Since it’s in simpler terms, most would be able to read this independently- either individually or as book club

  15. Bibliography • Anderson, L.H. (2009). Wintergirls. Viking Juvenile. •  Anonymous. (1971). Go ask Alice. Upper Saddle, NJ: Prentice Hall. •  Arnold, C., Walsh, B. T. (2007). Next to nothing: A firsthand account of one teenager’s experience with an eating disorder. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. •  Cheever, S., Fromke, S., Hoffman, J., & Nevins, S. (Eds). (2007). Addiction: Why can’t they just stop?. Emmanus, NY: Rodale Books. • Krestan, J. (2000). Bridges to recovery: Addiction, family therapy, and multi-cultural treatment. New York, NY: Free Press. • Sheff, D. (2009). Beautiful boy: A father’s journey through his son’s addiction. New York, NY: Mariner Books.

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