Psychotherapy, psychological treatments, and the addictions /

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Imprint:Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Description:xiii, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2421772
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Other authors / contributors:Edwards, Griffith.
Dare, Christopher.
ISBN:0521553571 (hardback)
0521556759 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Backgrounds to Therapeutic Understanding
  • 1. Addictions over the life course: therapeutic implications
  • 2. Psychotherapy and the life cycle: individual and family
  • 3. Personal strengths and vulnerability in family and social context
  • 4. Therapy in the eye of history: three episodes from the 19th century experience
  • Part II. Treatments
  • 5. Psychotherapy: why do some need more and some need less?
  • 6. Addictive behaviour: the next clinic appointment
  • 7. Advances in families and couples therapy
  • 8. Solution focused brief therapy: a co-operative approach to work with clients
  • 9. Recent developments in cognitive and behavioural therapies
  • 10ttCognitive and behavioural treatments for substance misuse.
  • 11. Motivational issues in the treatment of addictive behaviour
  • 12. Can 'stages of change' provide guidance in the treatment of addictions? A critical examination of Prochaska and Di Clemente's model
  • 13. Group therapy and the addictions
  • 14. Alcoholics Anonymous as a mirror held up to nature
  • 15. How therapeutic communities work
  • 16. A small group experience