Main description:

Addiction is a fascinating yet vast field with a sometimes overwhelming range of terms and concepts, numerous and often conflicting approaches spanning different fields, and constantly emerging topics that must be considered alongside established ones.

In Understanding Addiction: Key Concepts, Theories and Models, the authors have produced a textbook that addresses these complexities and provided a truly multidisciplinary overview of the field. Accommodating different approaches from a range of disciplines, it traces the integration of emerging and existing topics, all the while giving a comprehensive conceptual analysis of current terms relevant in the discipline today.

Each chapter is structured according to the key terms central to that topic. Each concept is discussed in terms of its historical and applied theoretical position in the discipline and described from a comprehensive appraisal of a variety of discipline viewpoints, such as psychology, medicine, nursing, sociology, social policy and economics. Students will gain a thorough understanding about the place of different concepts within the discipline, their unique origins, and how useful they have been in helping us to understand the study and treatment of addition.

Contents:

Defining Addiction
Prevalence of Addictive Behaviour
Physiological Dependence
Psychological Dependence
Disease Model
Moral Model
Cognitive and Learning Accounts
Biopsychosocial Accounts
Phases of Addiction: Onset, Maintenance, Cessation and Relapse
Diagnosis and Classification
Craving
Biology and Neurobiology
Reward Pathway
Dopamine
Serotonin
Endogenous Opioids
GABA
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors
Pharmacokinetics
Pharmacodynamics
Drug Metabolism
Addiction as Learned Behaviour
Positive Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcement
Dopamine Reward Theory
Habit Learning
Conditioned Tolerance
Conditioned Incentive Theory
Extinction Learning
Cue Reactivity
Incentive-Sensitisation Theory
Associative Memory Models
Expectancy Models
Social Learning Perspectives
Addiction as Impaired Control
Rationality and Choice
Loss of Control
Opponent Process Theory
Incentive-Sensitisation Theory
Inhibitory Dysregulation
Impulse Control
Theory of Rational Addiction
Social Cognitive Accounts (TRA/TPB)
Addiction as Impaired Cognition
Cognitive Processing: Automatic and Controlled Processes
Dual Systems Models of Cognition
Dual Process Models of Addiction
Attentional Bias
Cognitive Models of Craving
Implicit Associations
Implicit vs. Explicit Expectancies
Neurobiology of Cognition
Issues in Measurement and Assessment
Individual Differences in Addiction
Personality
Motivation to change
Self-efficacy
Cognitive Control
Genetics
Neurobiology
Disease
Emotional vulnerability
Social Factors
Cultural Factors
Sex Differences
Treatment
Motivational Interviewing
Group Therapy
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Replacement Therapy
Aversion Therapy
Cue Extinction Therapy
Detoxification and Withdrawal Management
Inpatient Treatment
Outpatient Treatment
Contingency Management
Preventing Addiction and Reducing Harm
Types of Prevention: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
Health Promotion
Harm Minimisation
Fear Appeals
Persuasive Communication
Availability Hypothesis
Role of the Media
Social Policy
Supply Reduction
Drug Substitution Interventions (e.g. Methadone Maintenance)
Community Approaches