Luca’s life is perfect; he has a loving mother, a father he idolizes and a strong bond with his twin sister. But by 15, life as he knows it, is over. He sits in juvenile detention, responsible for the deaths of two people, his family destroyed...
Offers a comprehensive review of the research on both standard approaches to continuing care and adaptive models that emphasize more flexible protocols, less treatment burden and greater convenience for patients and more attention to patient preference with regard to components of care.
Mental health practitioners must be prepared to treat addiction-related issues-affecting up to 50% of mental health clients-whether or not clients present with addiction as a primary concern. This practical roadmap to the treatment of addictions advocates an underutilized-yet highly effective-method of intervention: EMDR. It is the first book to ......
Causes, Consequences and Treatment of Comorbid Disorders
This book is newly revised to include special settings (such as court systems and disasters) and special populations (such as veterans), clarifies issues specific to trauma, PTSD, and substance abuse and translates quantitative and qualitative data into recommendations for clinicians, researchers, and administrators.
The book takes a comprehensive, no-holds-barred look at the easy path to drug addiction and the tough road to recovery. This book can help people confront addiction in their own lives and in their families by exploring the biological roots of addiction and the way addicts are allowed to deny their addiction by compassionate, well-meaning people.
Family relationships change dramatically when one or more members stops drinking. Far from offering a "quick fix" to family problems, in fact, the first years of sobriety are often marked by continuing tension. This text covers this topic.
Weaving case studies from the wars against AIDS and drugs with an empirical analysis of congressional action on these issues, this title shows how members of Congress balance problem solving with re-election concerns, paying particular attention to their need to craft compelling rationales for their actions.
America has a history of drug panics in which social problems have been blamed on the effects of some harmful substance. In the last forty years, such panics have often focused on synthetic or designer drugs and rave drugs. Fear of these substances has provided critical justification for the continuing war on drugs.
Substance abuse treatment in the US is not a smooth continuum of services available to all those who seek them. This comprehensive guide evaluates and summarises all available substance abuse treatment settings and approaches, including in-patient, outpatient, 12-step programmes, and more. It covers the full range of treatments, from the simplest ......
Offers an exploration of field observations, theory construction and rigorous testing, and laboratory research to advance working models for a research paradigm on substance abuse and co-morbidity.
Putting Personalisation and Recovery into Practice
Current drug policies show a strong commitment to addressing drug addiction using a model of hope and change to support personal recovery. Strength, Support, Setbacks and Solutions fills a gap in the research base, using a narrative technique to describe personal stories of recovery and how they link to a developmental model of long-term change.
Step Workbook for Adult Chemical Dependency Recovery is designed to encourage patients not only to answer questions, but to ask them as well. It enables patients to examine their addiction in the context of their entire life structure. This is a package of 5.
This is a staff manual for an intervention workbook made to help teenagers using drugs and alcohol recognize the frequency and negative consequences of that use
What the Science Shows, and What We Should Do about It
While knowledge on substance abuse and addictions is expanding, clinical practice lags behind. This book describes what treatment and prevention would look like if it were based on the best science available.
What the Science Shows, and What We Should Do about It
While knowledge on substance abuse and addictions is expanding rapidly, clinical practice still lags behind. This book incorporates developmental, neurobiological, genetic, behavioral, and social-environmental perspectives, and talks, among the other things, about the nature and causes of alcohol and other drug problems.
A Task Force Report of the American Psychiatric Association
The original task force report, completed in the summer of 1994, reflected the current state of addiction treatment and provided recommendations for improving these services in the future. That monograph is reproduced in this book.
Science-based Programs for Children and Adolescents
CSAP identified four critical predictors from childhood for substance use that could be valuable targets for prevention of adolescent substance use management of and involvement with the child, and the child's social competence, and school achievement. This book shows how seven selected prevention programs address these.
