An overview of substance abuse for generalist students, prospective mental health professionals, and allied professionals. Providing a comprehensive overview of the substance abuse field, Substance Abuse: Information for School Counselors, Social Workers, Therapists and Counselors, Fifth Edition combines the accessible writing style and succinct, practical topical coverage that have made it a market-leading resource for generalist students, prospective mental health professionals, and allied professionals. Continuing to cover basic pharmacology, models of addiction, assessment and diagnosis, cultural issues, intervention, treatment, recovery, support groups, children and families, other addictions, prevention, and confidentiality in its applied and concise style, this latest edition of Substance Abuse contains expanded coverage of screening and brief interventions, recovery oriented systems of care, spirituality and other current topics as well as a new chapter dedicated to motivational interviewing.
A guide to the techniques and analysis of clinical data. Each of the seventeen sections begins with a drawing and biographical sketch of a seminal contributor to the discipline. After...
Clinical Methods: The History, Physical, and Laboratory Examinations
This book brings together leading experts to describe what treatment and prevention would look like if it were based on the best science available.
Also addressed are such significant issues as crisis management and relapse prevention. This book will be replaced by Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Addictive Disorders, by Bruce S. Liese and Aaron T. Beck, in January 2022.
Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: The Evidence for Stigma Change explores stigma and discrimination faced by individuals with mental or substance use disorders and recommends effective strategies ...
Shargel L, Wu-Pong S, Yu A. Applied biopharmaceutics & pharmacokinetics. 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2012. Flomenbaum NE, Goldfrank LR, Hoffman RS, Howland MA, Lewin NA, Nelson LS. Goldfrank's toxicologic emergencies. 8th ed.
This is the only book of its kind that provides practical detail on how to use and score these varied assessment instruments-including the newest "cornerstone instruments," the MMPI-2, the SASSI-3 and the recently released SASSI-A2. ...
Among patients in substance abuse treatment, this dual diagnosis is two to three times more common in women than in men2 (Brown & Wolfe, 1994; Najavits et al., 1998c). Most women with this dual diagnosis experienced childhood physical ...
Ultimately, brain imaging and neurobiological studies have a singular purposeāto better understand drug dependence and other neuropsychiatric disorders so that more effective treatments can be developed. In this scheme, studies in ...
This handbook provides an in-depth foundation of knowledge for art therapists working with clients with addictions.