Treating Addiction: A Guide for Professionals

✍ Scribed by William R. Miller, Alyssa A. Forcehimes, Allen Zweben, A. Thomas McLellan

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 481
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An indispensable practitioner reference and text, this engaging book focuses on how to provide effective help to clients with substance use disorders. The authors, leading authorities on addiction treatment, present a state-of-the-art framework for assessment and treatment (updated for DSM-5). They describe and illustrate evidence-based treatment methods, including cognitive-behavioral, 12-step, motivational, pharmacological, and family approaches. Also addressed are such crucial clinical issues as resistance, maintenance of change, treating co-occurring disorders, and spirituality. Reproducible clinical tools can be photocopied from the book or downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. Of special utility, the companion website features more than 25 widely used, ready-to-download assessment tools, assembled in one place for the first time, together with the authors' guidance for using them throughout the process of treatment.

✦ Subjects

Self-Help;Abuse;Anger Management;Anxieties & Phobias;Art Therapy & Relaxation;Communication & Social Skills;Creativity;Death & Grief;Dreams;Eating Disorders;Emotions;Handwriting Analysis;Happiness;Hypnosis;Inner Child;Journal Writing;Memory Improvement;Mid-Life;Motivational;Neuro-Linguistic Programming;New Age;Personal Transformation;Relationships;Self-Esteem;Sex;Spiritual;Stress Management;Success;Time Management;Substance Abuse;Addiction & Recovery;Health, Fitness & Dieting;Social Work;Social