Addictions Books
Treating Substance Abuse: Theory and Technique: Third Edition
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... (more)
Counselling Older People with Alcohol Problems
Alcohol misuse is becoming an increasingly significant issue for people aged 55 and over, and providing effective counselling services to this growing client group requires a unique and specialised... (more)
A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Programme for Problem Gambling: Therapist Manual
A comprehensive manual providing guidance for therapists treating clients with gambling addictions. It uses a cognitive behavioural approach to identify a session by session guide for overcoming... (more)
Assessment of Addictive Behaviors: Second Edition
This comprehensive clinical resource and text is grounded in cutting-edge knowledge about the biopsychosocial processes involved in addictive behaviors. Presented are research-based, eminently... (more)
Cognitive-behavioural Therapy in the Treatment of Addiction: A Treatment Planner for Clinicians
"Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy in the Treatment of Addiction" is a treatment manual designed for clinicians who have little experience with CBT, but need to use it to effectively treat their... (more)
The Myth of Addiction
This work argues that current attitudes towards drug misuse are inaccurate and harmful. It examines how addictive behaviour may be a form of learned helplessness, not an effect caused by narcotic... (more)
Clinical Handbook of Co-existing Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Problems
Co-existing mental health and drug and alcohol problems occur frequently in primary care and clinical settings. Despite this, health professionals rarely receive training in how to detect, assess and... (more)
Behavioral Couples Therapy for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
This eminently practical guide presents an empirically supported approach for treating people with substance abuse problems and their spouses or domestic partners. Behavioral couples therapy (BCT)... (more)
Binge Britain: Alcohol and the National Response
Alcohol has played a major part in British life for centuries. It has led to the rise and fall of governments, financed wars, provoked civil disorder and even acts of terrorism. This book provides an... (more)
Alcohol Problems: Talking with Drinkers
A practical working handbook for all those who counsel people with drinking problems. The book outlines the theoretical origins of harmful drinking; describes the nature and type of difficulty that... (more)
Counselling heroin and other drug users
320p Paperback 1995
Treating the alcoholic: A developmental model of recovery
Designed especially for psychotherapists who have long had difficulty treating alcoholics, this developmental model translates the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous into psychological terminology,... (more)
Women and alcohol: Contemporary and historical perspectives
Brings together a wide range of contemporary and historical evidence on the consumption of alcohol and its associated adverse consequences and benefits amongst women. The text presents a discussion... (more)
Drug and Substance Abuse Among Older Adults: Identification, Analysis, and Synthesis
Drug and Substance Abuse Among Older Adults provides a timely, comprehensive overview and analysis of the silent epidemic of drug and substance abuse involving elderly Americans.
Combining... (more)
Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for Addictive Behaviors: A Clinician's Guide
This authoritative book--now revised and expanded with important clinical and research advances--presents a proven approach for helping people meet the day-to-day challenges of recovery from... (more)
Emotion Regulation Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorders: Helping Clients Manage Negative Thoughts and Feelings
Emotion Regulation Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorders provides step-by-step, detailed procedures for assessing and treating emotion regulation difficulties in individuals diagnosed with an alcohol... (more)
The Alcohol Report
The Alcohol Report sets out to provide, in non-technical terms, a considered, authoritative and informative review of some of the key topics likely to interest those with a serious interest in the... (more)
Addiction and Recovery in the UK
Addiction and Recovery in the UK captures the essence of the emerging addictions recovery movement and in particular the emerging evidence base that had been gathered around the umbrella of the... (more)
Rethinking Excessive Habits and Addictive Behaviors
Twelve step programs are the foundation of conventional thinking and treatment for people with addictive behaviors. But are they truly the best? Here, Tony Bevacqua explains why these... (more)
Integrated Approaches to Drug and Alcohol Problems: Action on Addiction
Integrated Approaches to Drug and Alcohol Problems: Action on Addiction provides a pathway through the field of addiction, giving a clear description of points along that path, from the beginning of... (more)
Key Concepts in Substance Misuse
Drug use is a major challenge for public services, healthcare professionals and policy-makers all over the world. This book offers a complete overview of the issues associated with substance misuse... (more)
Mindfulness-Based Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents: A 12-Session Curriculum
Mindfulness-Based Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents is a group-based curriculum incorporating mindfulness, self-awareness, and substance-abuse treatment strategies for use with adolescents... (more)
Broadening the Base of Addiction Mutual Support Groups: Bringing Theory and Science to Contemporary Trends
Mutual-help groups have proliferated, diversified and adapted to emerging substance-related trends over the past 75 years, and have been the focus of rigorous research for the past 30 years. This... (more)
Cognitive Therapy for Addiction: Motivation and Change
An innovative new approach to addiction treatment that pairs cognitive behavioural therapy with cognitive neuroscience, to directly target the core mechanisms of addiction. Offers a focus on... (more)
Understanding and Working with Substance Misusers
Explores the complex nature of addiction and the challenges involved in responding effectively through policy and practice. It examines the biopyschosocial elements of addiction to substances... (more)
Addiction Essentials: The Go-to Guide for Clinicians and Patients
An up-to-date guide to the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of addictions. Whether it's to caffeine, nicotine, or alcohol, many of us suffer from at least one addiction. Carlton K. Erickson presents... (more)
Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Substance Abuse
Leading authorities on substance abuse treatment techniques review and illustrate the most common interventions for opioid-related and alcohol-related substance abuse disorders, as well as crucial... (more)