Overcoming your alcohol or drug problem : effective recovery strategies : therapist guide /

Designed to accompany the ""Overcoming Your Alcohol or Drug Problem Workbook"", this guide provides clinicians with strategies for working with substance use disorders by focusing on specific issues involved in both stopping substance abuse and changing behaviours or lifestyle as...

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Main Author: Daley, Dennis C.
Other Authors: Marlatt, G. Alan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2006.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Treatments that work.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introductory information for therapists
  • Understanding substance use problems
  • Assessment of substance use problems
  • Treatment settings for substance use problems
  • Psychosocial therapies for substance use disorders
  • Medications for substance use problems
  • Stages of change and using therapy or counseling
  • Goal planning in recovery
  • Managing cravings and urges to use substances
  • Managing thoughts of using substances
  • Managing emotions
  • Refusing offers to use substances
  • Dealing with family and interpersonal problems
  • Building recovery support system
  • Self-help programs and recovery clubs
  • Assessment of co-occurring psychiatric disorders
  • Treatment of co-occurring psychiatric disorders
  • Reducing the risk of relapse
  • Relapse management
  • Strategies for balanced living
  • Measuring progress.