Systemic Treatment of Addictions

This volume offers a range of perspectives on addiction and responsibility and how the two are bound together.

Addiction Dilemmas explores the impact of addiction on those closest to the individuals affected and their families.

Provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies, third-party payors, and state and federal agencies.

In this extended essay, experts address both the recovery and the long-term goal of healing from addiction, arguing that a full cure from drug addiction or habitual addiction can be achieved.

Looks at the problems of meaning caused by drug dependency and appraises the changing terms of medical intervention today.

Written as an introduction to the field of addiction counseling, this text covers the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to counsel people who are struggling with addiction.

Guidance for addiction counselors in understanding and applying ethical standards.

Offers therapists a wealth of activities designed to help families struggling with addiction address problem areas of functioning, and ultimately shift from dysfunctional patterns to healthy living.

Created to meet the unique needs of addiction professionals, this practical resource offers suggestions for effectively using activities in groups.

This book, written from the perspective of a practicing primary care physician, interweaves patients' stories with fascinating new brain research to show how addictive drugs overtake basic brain functions and transform them to create a chronic illness that is very difficult to treat.

This book is an attempt to bridge the gap between research on substance abuse treatment programs and what actually goes on in the field of substance abuse treatment.

Learning the Language of Addiction Counseling, Fourth Edition introduces counselors, social workers, and students to the field of addiction counseling and helps them acquire the knowledge and develop the skills needed to counsel individuals who are caught in the destructive cycle of addiction.

Presents a breakthrough, integrative approach to addiction recovery to help you treat clients recovering from substance abuse and addiction using mindfulness-based therapy, motivational interviewing, and relapse prevention therapy.

A pioneering handbook that explores the developmental pathway to addiction recovery by examining the narratives of individuals and addiction professionals who have achieved recovery from alcohol or illicit drug addiction.