Understanding and practicing daily Living Skills can be crucial to the success of clients making significant life transitions. Hazelden Publishing's Living Skills program is designed to provide the tools necessary to live a healthy, fulfilling life while meeting the needs of today's diverse client population. This program is ideal for a variety of settings, including addiction treatment centers, mental health settings, educational settings, and criminal justice settings.

Hygiene and Self-Care, one of the Practical Guidance topics of Living Skills, teaches clients important hygiene and self-care practices to help them maintain physical health, promote self-confidence, and make a positive impression on others.

The information and exercises in the facilitator guides introduce topics to learners who may be unfamiliar with basic Living Skills. The exercises help learners begin to apply the concepts to their lives. The guides are designed to be used in conjunction with the corresponding workbooks and videos in the Living Skills program. The read-aloud sections, role plays, and other exercises with group discussions are designed to be conducted in a group setting, but could be adapted for individual use.

The four sessions of this topic include:

• Session 1: Introduction to Hygiene and Self-Care
• Session 2: Good Hygiene Practices
• Session 3: Good Self-Care Practices
• Session 4: More about Self-Care