Psychotherapy and Substance Abuse: A Practitioner's Handbook - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157230202X ISBN 13: 9781572302020

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1996

Synopsis

Because substance abuse is common among persons seeking mental health services, it is important for mental health professionals who don't specialize in substance abuse to be able to ascertain the possible involvement of alcohol or drug abuse when assessing a client. This practical new volume provides all the information general psychotherapists and mental health clinicians need to properly identify, assess, treat, and/or refer a client who is using psychoactive substances. Unlike other resources on the treatment of substance abuse, this volume is accessibly written for nonspecialists working in mental health facilities, hospitals, private practice, or other clinical settings, though specialists, too, will find many chapters of practical utility.

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About the Author

Arnold M. Washton, PhD, is an addiction psychologist currently in private practice in New York City and Princeton, New Jersey. He is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine. The author of several books, Dr. Washton has specialized in treating addictions for more than two decades.

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I. BASIC ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES 1. Overcoming Countertransference and Other Attitudinal Barriers in the Treatment of Substance Abuse, John E. Imhof 2. Clinical Assessment of Psychoactive Substance Use, Arnold M. Washton 3. Is Psychotherapy Effective for Substance Abusers, Richard A. Rawson 4. Treatment Strategies for Comorbid Disorders: Psychopathology and Substance Abuse, Ann Bordwine Beeder and Robert B. Millman 5. Psychotherapy for Addictive Behavior: A Stage-Change Approach to Meaning Making, Howard J. Shaffer and Melissa Robbins 6. Integrating Psychotherapy and 12-Step Approaches, Joan Ellen Zweben 7. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and Two Self-Help Alternatives to the 12-Step Models, F. Michler Bishop 8. Addiction as a "Self-Medication" Disorder: Application of Ego Psychology to the Treatment of Substance Abuse, Susan Lyden Murphy and Edward J. Khantzian II. CLINICAL STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES 9. Motivational Interviewing: Increasing Readiness for Change, Stephen Rollnick and Michelle Morgan 10. Working with Addicts in Private Practice: Overcoming Initial Resistance, Debra Rothschild 11. Brief Treatment, Reid K. Hester and Thomas H. Bien 12. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Substance Abusers, Insoo Kim Berg 13. Relapse Prevention: Intervention Strategies for Mental Health Clients with Comorbid Addictive Disorders, Dennis C. Daley and Judith A. Lis 14. Psychotherapy in Later-Stage Recovery, Jerome David Levin 15. Structured Outpatient Treatment, Ruby Malik, Arnold M. Washton, and Nannette Stone-Washton 16. Structured Inpatient Treatment: A Coping-Skills Training Approach, Ronald M. Kadden and Christopher R. Penta 17. Treating Chemical-Dependent Couples and Families, Douglas Stellato-Kabat, Joanna Stellato-Kabat, and James Garrett 18. Group Psychotherapy with Substance Abusers and Family Members, Marsha Vannicelli III. SPECIAL POPULATIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS 19. Network Therapy, Marc Galanter 20. Dual Diagnosis: Outpatient Treatment of Substance Abusers with Coexisting Psychiatric Disorders, Lisa Director 21. Adolescent Chemical Dependence: Assessment, Treatment, and Management, Robert Margolis 22. Special Population and Considerations: The Elderly, Sheldon Zimberg 23. HIV and AIDS, Mark G. Winiarski 24. The Role of Incest Issues in Relapse and Recovery, Enid B. Young 25. Women and Minorities in Treatment, Barbara C. Wallace Index

Edition details

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157230202X
• ISBN 13: 9781572302020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 500
• Editor: Washton Arnold M.