Addictions Books
Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Concepts Causes and Cures
Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Concepts, Causes, and Cures presents the concepts, etiology, assessment, prevention, and cessation of substance (tobacco, alcohol, other drugs, and food) and... (more)
The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment
Over the past 10 years, neurobiologic and genetic research has provided an increased understanding of what causes drug addiction in the brain's reward pathway. Knowing this leads to a better... (more)
The Psychology of Addiction
This accessible book takes a psychological approach to understanding addiction. It considers key questions and myths surrounding addition such as `how do people get hooked?' and `can you recover 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)
Group Psychotherapy and Addiction
This important collection is written by many well-known experts, several renowned on the international stage, with perspectives from the UK, USA and Scandinavia. They share their extensive... (more)
Problem Drinking: A Person-Centred Dialogue
Demonstrating the application of person-centred alcohol counselling theory using dialogue to illustrate interactions, this text describes counselling supervision and looks at how this approach helps... (more)
Counselling a Recovering Drug User: A Person-Centred Dialogue
This text highlights the complexities of dealing with people who have a drug-related problem and offers an insight into the world of drug users and the counselling process. It also provides an... (more)
The Essential Handbook of Treatment and Prevention of Alcohol Problems
The last three decades have seen an explosion of social, psychological and clinical research to identify effective strategies to prevent and treat alcohol-related problems. This Essential Handbook... (more)
Substance Use and Abuse: Cultural and Historical Perspectives
The authors' primary goal is to thoroughly explore cultural and historical approaches. Such an approach has much to offer in terms of enriching our understanding of why people use drugs and in... (more)
The Group Therapy of Substance Abuse
Gain a practical perspective on group therapy as a treatment for addiction! As more and more researchers and clinicians recognize group therapy as the primary psychosocial intervention in the... (more)
Containing the Uncontainable: Alcohol Misuse and the Personal Choice Community Programme
One of the first books on abstinence-based treatment to integrate psychoanalytic and cognitive/behavioural models structurally, Containing the Uncontainable is a practical account of establishing and... (more)
Narrative Means to Sober Ends: Treating Addiction and Its Aftermath
Working with clients who abuse drugs or alcohol poses formidable challenges to the clinician. Addicted persons are often confronting multiple, complex problems, from the denial of the addiction... (more)
The Alcoholic Family In Recovery: A Developmental Model
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... (more)
The Psychodynamics of Addiction
In the treatment of addictions and their psychological understanding, cognitive-behavioural and motivation approaches have been paramount. In contrast, the psychodynamic contribution has been muted.... (more)
Hungers and Compulsions: The Psychodynamic Treatment of Eating Disorders and Addictions
This book will help therapists understand and treat patients suffering from mild to dangerous forms of eating disorders, other compulsions and addictions, such as alcoholism, and even erotic... (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)
Excessive Appetites: A Psychological View of Addictions: Second Edition
This new edition offers a complete and comprehensive revision of this classic text in the field of addictions. Covering a wide variety of different forms of addiction from alcohol, tobacco and other... (more)
Bulimia/Anorexia: The Binge/Purge Cycle and Self-Starvation
This volume is a source of information on the dynamics of eating disorders. It provides information on adolescent danger signals, socialization and the family, physiological effects, the challenges... (more)
Art Therapy and Substance Abuse: Enabling Recovery from Alcohol and Other Drug Addiction
Art therapy is an effective treatment for individuals with addictions. Working with this unique and often difficult clinical population, however, requires special therapist awareness and knowledge.... (more)
Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide to Controlling Your Drug and Alcohol Use: Second Edition
"Just say no" just doesn't work for everyone. Presenting a powerful alternate to abstinence-only addictions treatments, this empathic, nonjudgmental resource has already helped many thousands set and... (more)
Families Bereaved by Alcohol or Drugs: Research on Experiences, Coping and Support
Individuals bereaved by the drug- or alcohol-related death of a family member represent a sizeable group worldwide. Families Bereaved by Alcohol or Drugs is the long-awaited result of an important... (more)
Integrating Psychological and Pharmacological Treatments for Addictive Disorders: An Evidence-Based Guide
Integrating Psychological and Pharmacological Treatments for Addictive Disorders distills the complex literature on addiction, offering a curated toolbox of integrated pharmacological and... (more)
Women's Drug and Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Analysis and Reflective Synthesis: Second Edition
This newly revised and expanded edition of Women's Drug and Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Analysis and Reflective Synthesis offers a unique analysis and synthesis of theory, empirical research,... (more)
Overcoming Sex Addiction: A Self Help Guide
Overcoming Sex Addiction is an accessible self-help guide which uses the principles of cognitive behaviour therapy to help those with problematic or unwanted patterns of sexual behaviour. It is... (more)
Ethics in Mental Health-Substance Use
Ethics in Mental Health-Substance Use aims to explore the comprehensive concerns and dilemmas occurring from Mental Health-Substance Use problems, and to inform, develop, and educate by... (more)
Gambling Disorders in Women: An International Female Perspective on Treatment and Research
This book brings together an international selection of academics with expertise in problem gambling issues in women, with chapters reflecting ongoing work with female gamblers across the world in... (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)
Transcending Addiction: An Existential Pathway to Recovery
Addiction is often thought about in terms of cause, be that brain chemistry, attachment patterns, or cognitive schemas. But this does not allow an understanding of what addiction ‘is’. It does not... (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)
Teen Gambling: Understanding a Growing Epidemic
Aided by technological advances in the gaming industry, new forms of gambling are continually evolving that have wide appeal to underage youth. This book is intended to provide parents and educators... (more)