Treating Substance Abuse: Theory and Technique

✍ Scribed by Scott T. Walters, Frederick Rotgers (eds.)

• Publisher: Guilford Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 449
• Series: Guilford Substance Abuse
• Edition: 3rd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Widely adopted, this state-of-the-art text and clinical resource captures the breadth of current knowledge about substance abuse and its treatment. For each of the major evidence-based treatment approaches, a chapter on basic assumptions and theories is followed by a chapter on clinical applications, including illustrative case material. Expert contributors cover motivational, contingency management, cognitive-behavioral, 12-step, family, and pharmacological approaches. Concluding chapters discuss effective ways to integrate different treatments in a range of clinical settings.

✦ 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;Psychotherapy, TA & NLP;Psychology & Counseling;Health, Fitness & Dieting;Substanc