Addiction and therapy

Real solutions to the unexpected threats that endanger long-term recovery written for a woman's unique experience.

Chronic pain places a tremendous burden on both the patient and the healthcare system.

Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs.

Developing Competencies for Recovery aims to help people struggling with addiction realize recovery by developing core competencies that will equip, enable, and empower them to master addiction, live well, and do good.

Co-occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Disorder: A Practitioner's Guide is a basic overview of current evidence-based practices for treating co-occurring disorders.

Food as a Drug provides psychologists, psychiatrists, and counselors with a unique discussion about possible addictive qualities of some foods to assist clients who are struggling with obesity or eating disorders.

In Changing Course-now fully revised and updated-Claudia Black extends a helping hand to anyone overcoming the complex trauma of growing up in an impaired family system.

Diese Studie erforscht das Vorkommen depressiver Symptome im Jugendalter, die Lebenssituation und den Alkohol- und Nikotinkonsum von Jugendlichen.

This textbook details how mental health and addiction are interconnected through childhood trauma, how this affects neurobiology and neuropsychology, and the need for an integrated whole-person treatment for those of diverse backgrounds to enhance treatment outcomes.

Why are some psychoactive substances regarded as 'dangerous drugs', to be controlled by the criminal law within a global prohibition regime, whilst others - from alcohol and tobacco, through to those we call 'medicines' - are seen and regulated very differently?

Despite a rapid increase in the availability of many forms of gambling, there has been little serious study in the literature of the likely effects.

Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs.

Published ten years after the first edition, this new Handbook offers topical, and comprehensive information on the welfare systems of all 28 EU member states and their recent reforms, giving the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research.

Motivational Dialogue explores the application of motivational interviewing in various contexts, with a view to enhancing understanding and improving practice.

Originally published in 1977, alcoholism was acknowledged to be a seriously growing problem in many parts of the world.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder affects approximately one person in 40 and causes great suffering.

If you feel as if you can no longer control your gambling, if your gambling has interfered with your family, social, or working life, this workbook can help you take back control.

The majority of problem-drinkers are not unemployed derelicts but are employed persons often with senior positions in commerce, the professions and industry.

The American Society of Addiction Medicine Handbook on Pain and Addiction provides clinical considerations and guidelines for the clinician treating patients with pain and addiction.

This book draws on a wide range of evidence to explore the facts about the relationship between substance misuse and domestic violence and their effect on children, and examines the response of children's services when there are concerns about the safety and welfare of children.

This work provides an evenhanded and authoritative overview of vaping and its impact on American culture and public health, especially among younger Americans.

Millions of individuals diagnosed with severe mental illness also suffer from an equally powerful substance use disorder.

The Clinical Manual for Treatment of Alcoholism and Addictions provides a concise overview of addiction treatment issues relevant to physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, alcohol and drug counselors, and rehabilitation therapists who are involved in the care of patients with substance use disorders.

This book is a treatment manual providing guidance for therapists treating clients with gambling addictions.

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Find remarkable prevention and treatment strategies for preschool-age children of substance abusers in this informative volume.

Anthony Marakovitz nails down what his life was like as an extreme addict for forty years--following his happy childhood, some bad boy middle and high school years, indiscriminate relationships, and normally fatal health complications with enough drugs and alcohol to have killed anyone.

There are now signs that, after decades of phenomenal growth, the era of unrestrained gambling liberalisation may be coming to an end.

The premier text on co-occurring mental and substance use disordersWritten by professional counselors for counselors, this lucid text delivers comprehensive information for those who work with individuals suffering from these complex maladies.

Filling a crucial need, this manual presents the Womens Recovery Group (WRG), an empirically supported treatment approach that emphasizes self-care and developing skills for relapse prevention and recovery.

Millions of alcoholics and addicts recover through spirituality.

Through a Trauma Lens aims to understand and highlight successful examples of health, mental health, substance abuse treatment, and other service delivery systems that have implemented an integrated trauma-informed service model.

This book examines the drug dealer in contemporary society from an interdisciplinary perspective and considers the increasingly blurred demarcation between illegitimate and legitimate drug markets.

"e;For parents in recovery (PIRs), the process of recovery is so much more than just stopping drug and alcohol abuse.

Working with Drug and Alcohol Users provides an accessible guide to substance use and working with substance users.

Elhajj uses the principles learned in his 12-step program to forge a powerful bond with the son he left behind at age 3, as that boy grows to maturity and a new closeness with his father.

A poignantly funny account of renowned writer and humorist Neal Pollack's years as a marijuana addict.

In 2020, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimated that 40.

More than 90 percent of adults with current substance use disorders started using before age 18, engaging in behaviors that affect healthy neurological and psychological development.

Trauma, trauma-related disorders, substance use, and addictive disorders often co-occur, and frequently play a role in the problems and issues that social workers contend with in their practice with individuals, families, and communities.

This volume of Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science focuses on the molecular basis of drug addiction.

Social media has helped boost the culture of intoxication, a central aspect of young people's social lives in many Western countries.

Detached, alienated people, many of them functioning with a pathologically developed false self, barely navigate life's challenges.

Adolescent Addiction: Epidemiology, Assessment, and Treatment presents a comprehensive review of information on adolescent addiction, including prevalence and co-morbidity rates, risk factors to addiction, and prevention and treatment strategies.

Not everyone who experiments with substance use or risky behavior becomes addicted, and many who are addicted have been able to recover.

Guidance for addiction counselors in understanding and applying ethical standards Filled with proven strategies to help you examine your current practice for ethical snags and refresh your ethical thinking, Ethics for Addiction Professionals leads you in examining, building, and rebuilding aspects of your ethical practice with the goal of helping you become the strongest clinician possible ethically speaking.

Deciding your life is worth living after losing almost everything can be the greatest challenge in a person's life.