Addictions Books
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)
Mind-Body Workbook for Addiction: Effective Tools for Substance-Abuse Recovery and Relapse Prevention
Seeking treatment for substance abuse or addiction is half the battle-staying sober is the other. In this important book, physician Stanley Block and addiction specialist Guy du Plessis present a... (more)
The Addiction Recovery Skills Workbook: Changing Addictive Behaviors Using CBT, Mindfulness, and Motivational Interviewing Techniques
If you struggle with addiction, seeking treatment is a powerful, positive first step toward eventual recovery. But gaining an understanding of the causes of addiction-such as feelings of helplessness... (more)
Addiction, Behavioral Change and Social Identity: The Path to Resilience and Recovery
Changing health-related behaviour is for many people a lonely and isolating experience. Individual willpower is often not enough, particularly in addressing addictive behaviour, but research... (more)
The Drug Conversation: How to Talk to Your Child About Drugs
This is a book for parents about how to raise the thorny issue of drugs with their teenage children. Drugs have never been more available and your child is almost certain to come across them at some... (more)
A Practical Guide to Early Intervention and Family Support: Assessing Needs and Building Resilience in Families Affected by Parental Mental Health Problems or Substance Misuse
Parental mental health problems and substance misuse affect a significant number of families. This handbook provides practitioners with early intervention techniques and effective support strategies... (more)
Marijuana and Mental Health
Although other books have explored the medical cannabis and the neuroscience behind cannabis, no single source of comprehensive information on cannabis and mental health has existed to date.... (more)
Treating Women with Substance Use Disorders: The Women's Recovery Group
Filling a crucial need, this manual presents the Women's Recovery Group (WRG), an empirically supported treatment approach that emphasizes self-care and developing skills for relapse prevention and... (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)
Addictions: A Social Psychological Perspective
The current volume brings together social psychological theories and concepts and discusses their relevance to understanding substance use and addiction. It identifies convergence points between... (more)
Sex Addiction as Affect Dysregulation: A Neurobiologically Informed Holistic Treatment
Sex Addiction as Affect Dysregulation examines sex addiction in line with the new definition of addiction as a primary, chronic brain disease. Treatment implications are explained and case histories... (more)
Substance Abuse Treatment and the Stages of Change: Selecting and Planning Interventions: Second Edition
A widely adopted practitioner resource and course text, this book shows how to apply knowledge about behavior change in general -- and the stages-of-change model in particular -- to make substance... (more)
Substance Use Problems: Second Edition
A fully updated new edition of the popular text that separates the facts from the myths about drug and substance use and provides practical, evidence-based guidance on dealing with them. The... (more)
Perspectives on Substance Use, Disorders, and Addiction: With Clinical Cases: Second Edition
The book is designed for students and clinicians who come in contact with and treat individuals and families struggling with the causes and consequences of substance use, disorders, and addiction.... (more)
Behavioral Addictions: DSM-5 and Beyond
This book explains the rationale for changes in the DSM-5(R) related to incorporating behavioral addictions alongside substance use disorders; it also illuminates the significance of including the... (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)
Women, Girls, and Addiction: Celebrating the Feminine in Counseling Treatment and Recovery
Women, Girls, and Addiction is the first book on the efficacy of treatment approaches and interventions that are tailored to working with addicted women, and the first publication of any kind to... (more)
Sex Addiction: The Partners' Perspective: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Surviving Sex Addiction for Partners and Those Who Want to Help Them
Sex and pornography addiction are growing problems that devastate the lives of partners as well as sufferers. Sex Addiction: A Partners' Perspective has been written to help partners and those who... (more)
Working Together to Reduce Harmful Drinking
This book is intended to contribute to the World Health Organization's (WHO) global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. It explores areas where alcohol producers' technical competence can... (more)
Addiction: A Behavioral Economic Perspective
Addiction: A Behavioral Economic Perspective focuses on the behavioral economics of addiction to explain why someone decides and act against her own well-being. It answers the questions of what... (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)
Transforming Addiction: Gender, Trauma, Transdisciplinarity
Addiction is a complex problem that requires more nuanced responses. Transforming Addiction advances addictions research and treatment by promoting transdisciplinary collaboration, the integration of... (more)
The Behavioral Addictions Casebook
The Behavioral Addictions is the first American Psychiatric Publishing title to explore the diagnosis and treatment of patients who suffer from behavioral addictions, extreme forms of which share... (more)
Women and Drinking: Preventing Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies
Part of the Advances in Psychotherapy -Evidence-Based Practice series, which provides therapists with practical, evidence-based guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of the most common disorders... (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)
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)
Removing the Roadblocks: Group Psychotherapy with Substance Abusers and Family Members
Based on the author's 18 years of experience supervising group therapists, this quintessentially practical book is designed to help practitioners think through and formulate appropriate strategies in... (more)
Carl Jung and Alcoholics Anonymous: The Twelve Steps as a Spiritual Journey of Individuation
“Show me a drunk and I’ll show you someone in search of God”, is a saying that could be derived from Carl Jung. Jung wrote to Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), about his... (more)
Binge Drinking and Alcohol Misuse Among College Students and Young Adults
Heavy drinking - and its associated problems - are an integral part of many college students' and other young adults' lives. While some young drinkers are able to consume alcohol without incidents,... (more)