Cognitive Therapy for Addiction: Motivation and Change - Softcover

Ryan, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470669950 ISBN 13: 9780470669952

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Synopsis

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 addiction that is lacking in existing cognitive therapy accounts
• Utilizes various approaches, including mindfulness, 12-step facilitation, cognitive bias modification, motivational enhancement and goal-setting and, to combat common road blocks on the road to addiction recovery
• Uses neuroscientific findings to explain how willpower becomes compromised-and how it can be effectively utilized in the clinical arena

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Cognitive therapist and addiction specialist Frank Ryan has developed an elegant and simple programme for treatment based on the motivational mechanisms of addiction and organised into the "4Ms":

• Motivation and engagement
• Manage impulses and craving
• Mood management
• Maintenance and relapse prevention

At each stage, cognitive and behavioural strategies are mapped out that enhance self-regulation and emphasise cognitive control. The theoretical framework and clinical strategies are derived from cognitive behaviour therapy, but are framed within a cognitive neuroscience paradigm.

This volume provides both a conceptual framework of this emergent paradigm, and a roadmap for augmenting existing therapeutics and generating innovative techniques to directly target the core cognitive and behavioural mechanisms of addiction. It will ultimately empower both addiction sufferers, and all those engaged in addiction treatment and recovery.

About the Author:

Frank Ryan is a consultant clinical psychologist in Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust in London, UK. An Honorary Senior Lecturer in Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College and an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, he is a practicing cognitive therapist and an active trainer, lecturer and researcher.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0470669950
• ISBN 13: 9780470669952
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240