Sobriety Shop-A Variation on Magic Shop for Addiction Treatment Patients

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  • TERRY A. RUSTIN Author
  • PETER A. OLSSON Author

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https://doi.org/10.12926/btbqtf37

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Patients

Abstract

Sobriety Shop is a variation on Magic Shop (a standard psychodrama exercise) for use in addiction treatment programs, in which personal qualities that have contributed to the patients' addictive illness are exchanged for desirable qualities that will help the patients stay sober. The exercise helps patients learn new behaviors needed for maintaining abstinence and anticipate the problems patients will face in their recovery. Sobriety Shop also has value as a warmup to a full psychodramatic enactment, as a training tool, and as a method of determining which new patients are appropriate for inclusion in a psychodrama group.

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2025-03-14

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Vol. 46 No. 1 (1993): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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