Driving With Care

This three-level education / treatment program targets judicial clients who have been convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs and includes the following components:

• Provider’s Guide: Offers guidelines for developing individualized treatment plans and implementing appropriate education and treatment curriculum protocol
• Participant’s Workbook: Level I Education: Six-session, 12-hour DWI education program designed for first-time offenders
• Participant’s Workbook: Level II Therapy: 21-session, 42-hour program designed for clients with higher levels of AOD disruption and psychosocial problems who need intervention over longer periods of time
• Participant’s Workbook: Level II Education: 12-session, 24-hour education program for impaired driving offenders who have at least minimal indicators of past problems associated with AOD use or misuse and whose arrest blood-alcohol-content was at the impaired driving level

Wanberg (Center for Addictions Research and Evaluation) presents a provider's guide to accompany a set of three participant workbooks designed to educate and treat impaired driving offenders. Drawing on the literature found in the general treatment of alcohol and other drug problems, and on recent developments in the areas of mental health, assessment, and psychotherapy, it applies principles and processes of cognitive-behavioral treatment to impaired driving offenders. Section I provides a historical perspective and theoretical foundation, and Section II presents a conceptual framework, covering issues such as the therapeutic alliance and motivation. Section III provides content and detailed guidelines for conducting sessions for two educational curricula and a treatment curriculum for offenders. Appendices provide screening instruments and other useful forms. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Kenneth W. Wanberg, ThD, PhD, has academic concentrations in biology, mathematics, clinical psychology, psychology of religion, psychometrics, quantitative analysis, and interpersonal communication and the psychology of spoken language. He worked as a counselor and clinical psychologist with the Division of Youth Corrections, State of Colorado for 17 years. He has been doing clinical work for 50 years and has had a private practice for 40 years. He has worked as a clinician and researcher in the field of alcohol and drug abuse for over 40 years and in the field of criminal conduct and substance abuse for over 25 years.

Harvey B. Milkman, PhD received his baccalaureate degree from City College of New York and his doctorate from Michigan State University. He is currently professor of psychology at Metropolitan State College of Denver. His doctoral research was conducted with William Frosch, MD, at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in New York City, on the User’s Drug of Choice. From 1980 1981, he completed a sabbatical exploration of addictive behavior in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia; in 1985 he was recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Lectureship award at the National University of Malaysia. He has represented the United States Information Agency as a consultant and featured speaker in Australia, Brazil, Iceland, The Netherlands, Peru, Turkey, and Yugoslavia. He is principle author with Stanley Sunderwirth of “The Chemistry of Craving,” and author of “Better than Dope,” featured articles in Psychology Today, October, 1983 and April, 2001 respectively. From September 1992 June 2002, he was author, principal investigator, and director of Project Self-Discovery: Artistic Alternatives for High-Risk Youth, a national demonstration model funded by The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and the Edward Byrne Foundation.