Jennifer Bruha, Ph.D. was born and raised in the San Francisco bay area. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she earned a Bachelors degree in Psychology, followed by a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology and a Certificate in Chemical Dependency Counseling from Notre Dame de Namur University. She earned a second Masters degree and Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Clinical Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She has been working as a clinician since 2003 at Our Common Ground, an adolescent residential treatment facility in Redwood City, California, and at the East Palo Alto adult treatment facility since 2009. She designed the Drug Education and Relapse Prevention curriculum at both facilities and continues to facilitate both groups. Her clinical and research interests include addiction, eating disorders, and trauma. In 2010, she was awarded the Alice Kahn Ladas Research Award for her research in mindfulness and eating disorders from the United States Association of Body Psychotherapy.

The Adolescent Relapse Prevention Planner, a workbook for adolescents with substance abuse problems, contains a variety of educational information, discussion topics, and exercises that can be used for both individuals and groups. The writing tone, as well as the structure of the exercises, are geared to the teen level; the entire process is designed to be intriguing, thought-provoking, psycho-educational and even fun-making treatment and the recovery process more personally empowering, manageable, and more achievable.

The Adolescent Relapse Prevention Planner offers several unique components not available in other recovery literature, including:

• Exercises and discussion topics adaptable for individuals and groups
• Drug education, focusing on the short and long-term health effects of stimulants, depressants, and hallucinogens
• Examples and stories using real-life teen situations
• Family and genetics chapter, including a section on making a family tree to identify family system patterns in substance abuse, mental health problems, and trauma
• Graphic of the cycle of addiction and exercises in identifying triggers and coping skills
• Self-care, the key to creating real change, with exer