Description

For students taking courses in substance abuse and addictions counseling.

A practical collection of tools and strategies for prospective addictions counselors that includes a solid foundation of research, theory, and history.

Practical and comprehensive, Foundations of Addiction Counseling explores an array of techniques and skills that a new practitioner will need in the real world while providing a thorough review of the research, theory, and history of addiction counseling. With chapters written by expert scholars, this text covers many topics in-depth often ignored by other comparable books, such as professional issues in addictions counseling, the assessment of client strengths, gender issues in substance abuse, working in rehabilitation centers, and working with clients with disabilities.

This edition of this unique text offers prospective counselors the tools and strategies they will need for working with general and special populations, including assessment tools, strategies for outpatient and inpatient treatment, information about maintenance and relapse prevention, and counseling strategies for couples, families, children, adolescents, college students, and recovering addicts. The revised edition includes expanded discussions on a number of topics, new case studies, and completely updated resources and web references.

Features

• Unique chapters on the assessment of client resources and strengths (Ch. 5) and gender issues in addiction counseling (Ch. 15) cover topics rarely addressed in other comparable addictions counseling texts.
• A complete chapter on working in rehabilitation centers and with clients with disabilities (Ch. 17) will help all perspective students, especially those with an interest in a rehabilitation specialization.
• A complete chapter on motivational interviewing (Ch. 6) explores the most widely used treatment approach in addiction counseling.

New to this Edition

• Case study sidebars and quick fact sidebars add a visual dimension that increases readability and interest for students.
• A new separate chapter on process addictions such as sexual addictions, gambling addictions, work addictions, and buying addictions offers readers a more comprehensive and in-depth look at non-ingestive addictions.
• An expanded discussion of professional issues in addictions counseling gives prospective addiction counselors more pertinent information about their future field.
• A greater emphasis on clinical interviewing helps students better understand the importance of clinical interviewing in assessment.
• An updated and revised chapter on addiction prevention presents students with updated information on prevention programming for children and teens and adds new material on prevention programs on college campuses.
• A revised chapter on cross-cultural counseling presents a practitioner-focused approach to engaging ethnic diversity in the process of addictions counseling. Will engage the readership in a more dynamic and practical manner.
• New case studies located throughout the text add to the readability and practicality of the textbook.
• Updated references and URL locations provide readers with the most current information and resources.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contributors

    Meet the Editors

   Meet the Authors

 

PART I INTRODUCTION TO ADDICTIONS COUNSELING

 

CHAPTER 1 History and Etiological Models of Addiction

David Capuzzi and Mark D. Stauffer

 

CHAPTER 2 Substance Addiction 

Laura J. Veach, Jennifer L. Rogers, and E. J. Essic

 

CHAPTER 3 Process Addictions

Laura J.Veach, Emeline P. Hollander, Jennifer L. Rogers, and E. J. Essic

 

CHAPTER 4 Important Professional Issues in Addictions Counseling

Melinda Haley, Jason Vasquez, and Senait Alem Bairu

 

CHAPTER 5 Introduction to Assessment
Mark D. Stauffer, David Capuzzi, and Holly Fetter

 

CHAPTER 6 Assessment and Diagnosis of Addictions

 John M. Laux, Dilani M. Perera-Diltz, and Stephanie A. Calmes

 

PART TWO THE TREATMENT OF ADDICTIONS

 

CHAPTER 7 Motivational Interviewing

Lisa Langfuss Aasheim

 

CHAPTER 8 Psychotherapeutic Approaches

Cynthia J. Osborn

 

CHAPTER 9 Co-occurring Disorders and Addictions Treatment

Scott E. Gillig and Pamela A. Cingel

 

CHAPTER 10 Group Therapy for Treatment of Addictions

Laura R. Simpson and Donna S. Sheperis

 

CHAPTER 11 Addiction Pharmacotherapy

Cass Dykeman

 

CHAPTER 12 12-Step Facilitation of Treatment

Adrianne L. Johnson

 

CHAPTER 13 Maintenance and Relapse Prevention

Rochelle Moss and Christopher C. H. Cook

 

PART THREE: ADDICTIONS IN FAMILY THERAPY, REHABILITATION AND SCHOOL SETTINGS

 

CHAPTER 14 Alcohol Addiction and Families

Misty K. Hook

 

CHAPTER 15 Persons with Disabilities and Addictions

Debra A. Harley, Malachy Bishop, and Jennifer Burris

 

CHAPTER 16 Substance Abuse Prevention Programs for Children, Adolescents, and College Students

Abbe’ Finn

 

PART FOUR: CROSS-CULTURAL COUNSELING IN ADDICTIONS

 

CHAPTER 17 Cross-Cultural Counseling: Engaging Ethnic Diversity

Jane E. Rheineck and Vanessa Alleyne

 

CHAPTER 18 Gender and Addictions

Cynthia A. Briggs

  

CHAPTER 19 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Affirmative Addictions Treatment

Anneliese A. Singh and Pamela S. Lassiter