Main description:

Now revised and updated, this widely used text comprehensively reviews theories of addiction to give students and professionals a multidisciplinary foundation for clinical practice. It explores the causes and mechanisms of substance and behavioral addictions, as well as implications for helping people recover. Providing a science-based perspective, the text emphasizes the importance of using treatment and prevention strategies that are grounded in evidence. Thoroughly updated chapters address disease models; public health approaches; understanding and treating comorbidity; psychoanalytic, behavioral, cognitive, and family systems models; sociocultural approaches; behavioral addiction; and motivational models. Student-friendly features include end-of-chapter summaries and review questions.

New to This Edition
*Updated throughout with current research and clinical advances.
*Discussions of cutting-edge topics: genetics of addiction, addiction stigma, and the opioid epidemic.
*New and revised clinical vignettes and review questions.

Contents:

1. Conceptualization of Addictive Behavior and the Need for Informed Practice
2. The Disease Models
3. Public Health and Prevention Approaches
4. Understanding the Co-Occurrence of Substance Use and Psychiatric Conditions
5. Psychoanalytic Formulations
6. Conditioning Models and Approaches to Contingency Management
7. Cognitive Models
8. The Family System
9. Social and Cultural Foundations
10. The Controversial Science of Behavioral Addiction
11. Promoting Motivation and Autonomy for Personal Change
12. Linking Theory, Evidence, and Practice