Main description:

This widely respected text and practitioner guide, now revised and expanded, provides a roadmap for effective clinical practice with clients with substance use disorders. Specialists and nonspecialists alike benefit from the authors' expert guidance for planning treatment and selecting from a menu of evidence-based treatment methods. Assessment and intervention strategies are described in detail, and the importance of the therapeutic relationship is emphasized throughout. Lauded for its clarity and accessibility, the text includes engaging case examples, up-to-date knowledge about specific substances, personal reflections from the authors, application exercises, reflection questions, and end-of-chapter bulleted key points.

New to This Edition
*Chapters on additional treatment approaches: mindfulness, contingency management, and ways to work with concerned significant others.
*Chapters on overcoming treatment roadblocks and implementing evidence-based treatments with integrity.
*Covers the new four-process framework for motivational interviewing, diagnostic changes in DSM-5, and advances in pharmacotherapy.
*Updated throughout with current research and clinical recommendations.

Contents:

I. An Invitation to Addiction Treatment
1. Why Treat Addiction?
2. What Is Addiction?
3. How Do Drugs Work?
II. A Context for Addiction Treatment
4. Engaging
5. Screening, Evaluation, and Diagnosis
6. Withdrawal Management and Health Care Needs
7. Individualizing Treatment
8. Case Management
III. A Menu of Evidence-Based Options in Treating Addiction
9. Brief Interventions
10. Motivational Interviewing
11. Behavioral Coping Skills
12. Meditation and Mindfulness
13. Contingency Management
14. A Community Reinforcement Approach
15. Working with Significant Others
16. Strengthening Relationships
17. Mutual Help Groups
18. Medications in Treatment
IV. Professional Issues
19. Stuff That Comes Up
20. Treating Co-Occurring Conditions
21. Facilitating Maintenance
22. Working with Groups
23. Addressing the Spiritual Side
24. Professional Ethics
25. Implementing Evidence-Based Practice
References
Index