Introduction to Addictive Behaviors, Second Edition - Hardcover

Thombs PhD FAAHB, PhD Dennis L.; Thombs, Dennis L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1572304111 ISBN 13: 9781572304116

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1999

Synopsis

This popular text reviews and critiques major contemporary perspectives on alcoholism and drug dependence, including the disease models, psychoanalytic formulations, and theories based on conditioning, social learning, family systems, and sociology. Throughout, applications to the helping process are emphasized and learning is facilitated by case examples and review questions. With all chapters extensively revised to reflect the expanding knowledge base in addictive behavior, the second edition incorporates recent advances in such areas as behavioral genetics, neuroscience, dual diagnosis, contingency management, cognitive expectancy, children of alcoholics, drug subcultures, and motivation enhancement.

About this title

About the Author:

Dennis L. Thombs, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Adult, Counseling, Health and Vocational Education at Kent State University. Dr. Thombs has worked in the mental health field, including substance abuse treatment and prevention, for more than 15 years. The author of numerous articles in the area of health behavior, his chief research focus is adolescent and young adult alcohol abuse.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

1. The Multiple Conceptions of Addictive Behavior and Clinical Practice Today
2. The Disease Models
3. Psychoanalytic Formulations
4. Conditioning Models and Approaches to Contingency Management
5. Cognitive Models
6. The Family System
7. Social and Cultural Foundations
8. Conditions That Facilitate and Inhibit Change in Addictive Behavior

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1572304111
• ISBN 13: 9781572304116
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304