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Working with drug and alcohol users : a guide to providing understanding, assessment and support /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: White, Tony, 1957-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2013.
Subjects:
Counseling psychology.
Drug abuse counseling.
Alcoholism counseling.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Foundations of drug and alcohol counseling
  • Drugs in society and addiction
  • Fundamental components of drug counseling
  • Transactional analysis and the theory of addiction
  • Why people use drugs and their treatment
  • Specific techniques in counseling the drug and alcohol user
  • The harm reduction contract and harm reduction counseling
  • Assessment of the drug and alcohol user
  • Drug use ambivalence
  • Relapse process work
  • Motivational interviewing
  • The teenage drug user
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Index.