Relapse Prevention Counseling for African Americans or Born Again in Brazil

Relapse Prevention Counseling for African Americans: A Culturally Specific Model

Author: Roland Williams

This book adapts the CENAPS Model of Recovery and Relapse to the specific cultural needs of African Americans. There are a number of obstacles faced by African Americans that are not experienced by members of the majority culture who seek recovery.

Disproportionately large numbers of African Americans relapse. Why? What can be done?

Relapse is a serious problem for all recovering people, but it is especially severe for African Americans seeking recovery from addiction. Now, for the first time, Roland Williams, a certified Relapse Prevention specialist who is heavily involved in promoting recovery in the African-American community, has joined forces with Terence T. Gorski to initiate an in-depth look at relapse among recovering African Americans and what can be done to prevent it.

All recovering people have relapse warning signs. For many African Americans, however, these warning signs are woven into a broad fabric of cultural issues that create additional obstacles to staying alcohol and drug free.

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Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty

Author: R Andrew Chestnut

A spiritual revolution is transforming the religious landscape of Latin America. Evangelical Protestantism, particularly Pentecostalism, has replaced Catholicism as the leading religion in thousands of barrios on the urban periphery. But in few Latin American nations have Protestants multiplied as rapidly as in Brazil. What accounts for this rise? Combining historical, political, and ethnographic research, R. Andrew Chesnut shows that the relationship between faith healing and illness in the conversion process is integral to the popularity of Pentecostalism among Brazil's poor. He augments his analysis of the economic and political factors with extensive interview material to capture his informants' conversion experience. In doing so, he presents both a historical framework for a broad understanding of Pentecostalism in Latin America and insight into the personal motivations and beliefs of the crentes themselves.

What People Are Saying

David Martin
David Martin , University of London
For vivid insight, lively narrative, and persuasive use of life histories, this is a major piece of ethnography...

David Stoll
An engaging case study of one of the most successful Pentecostal bodies in Latin American...
— (David Stoll, author of Is Latin America Turning Protestant?)

Virginia Garrard-Burnett
Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin.
An exciting and provocative book!...