Toxic Faith and Addiction
by NET Training Institute (NET Training Institute, Inc.)
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Summary:
Toxic Faith and Addiction is part of the NET Training Institute’s Wingspread Series. This self-study series is geared toward people seeking to meet their professional, ministerial, and personal goals through distance education. NTI provides the student with a Certificate of Completion—which some certifying agencies approve for education credit hours towards professional certification and/or re-licensure—upon payment and return of completed student documentation sheets from the study guide. The course package includes the required text, a pre-test, a self-study guide, an end of course post test and a course evaluation. Toxic Faith and Addiction recognizes that the “faith factor” is a key to recovery and healthy and lasting change. Because addicts often switch addictions, counselors need to understand the ways that religious behaviors can substitute for in-depth recovery and healing. This book will familiarize members of the faith community with the extremes of toxic faith, the progression of religious addiction, characteristics and roles of a toxic faith system, and a 12 Step-based treatment and recovery program. Characteristics of healthy faith are also discussed so that counselors will be able to identify a healthy faith system that will support clients toward recovery.
Why does FASTEN recommend this resource?
The Toxic Faith and Addiction self-study course addresses rarely-discussed issues of recovery that are relevant for the faith community. Its workbook-style format and fill-in-the-blank structure lends itself to professionals who work best by studying on their own. It is a good study for counselors or professionals seeking continuing education credits. 
