This workbook provides a solid, familiar format for adults being treated for chemical dependency to write down their thoughts and express their conflicts. The book is designed to encourage patients not only to answer questions, but to ask them as well. It enables patients to examine their addiction in the context of their entire life structure. Step One helps the chemically dependent patient to identify the seriousness of his or her problem by writing it down. Step Two helps the patient to examine his or her irrational and self-destructive behaviour. Step Three aids the patient in creating new ways of thinking, enabling the realisation that there are aspects of their life that are out of control. The fourth step encourages reflection on the positive and negative experiences in the patient's life, and the fifth and final step helps the patient to verbalise what he or she has written in step four.