Addictions Books
Clinical Manual of Addiction Psychopharmacology: Second Edition
Clinical Manual of Addiction Psychopharmacology is a comprehensive guide to the pharmacology of drugs of abuse and the medications used to treat dependence on those substances. This new, second... (more)
All About Drugs and Young People: Essential Information and Advice for Parents and Professionals
Packed with information, advice and learning activities, this book tells you what you need to know about drugs, young people's drug use, and how you can help them stay safe. It covers everything from... (more)
Treatment for Hoarding Disorder: Therapist Guide: Second Edition
The relationship people have with their possessions ranges from purely utilitarian to intensely emotional. For most people, their personal possessions provide them with a sense of security, comfort,... (more)
Treating Substance Abuse: Theory and Technique: Third Edition
Widely adopted, this state-of-the-art text and clinical resource captures the breadth of current knowledge about substance abuse and its treatment. For each of the major evidence-based treatment... (more)
Clinical Work with Substance-Abusing Clients: Third Edition
A leading professional resource and course text, this book provides practical guidance for treating clients with substance use disorders in a variety of contexts. Expert contributors present major... (more)
Almost Alcoholic: Is My (or My Loved Ones) Drinking a Problem? (The Almost Effect)
Identifies 'almost alcoholics' - those whose excessive drinking contributes to problems in their lives - and helps readers develop strategies and goals for limiting alcohol use and making informed... (more)
Craving: Why We Can't Seem to Get Enough
When we find ourselves wanting something strong enough, we'll do just about anything to get it - sometimes at the expense of our bodies, brains, bank accounts, and relationships. So why do we... (more)
Now What?: An Insider's Guide to Addiction and Recovery
Addiction and recovery insider and expert William Cope Moyers answers the question "Now What?" for addicts and their loved ones, every step of their journey from contemplation through intervention,... (more)
Recovering My Kid: Parenting Young Adults in Treatment and Beyond
National expert Dr. Joseph Lee explains the nature of youth addiction and treatment, and how families can create a safe and supportive environment for their loved ones during treatment and throughout... (more)
Addiction Treatment: Third Revised Edition
Using the popular harm-reduction model, Addiction Treatment covers the biological, psychological, and social aspects of alcoholism, eating disorders, compulsive gambling, and other addictions.... (more)
Addictions From an Attachment Perspective: Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours?
This outstanding book is an important collection of papers from the 2013 John Bowlby Memorial Conference by accomplished clinicians from different modalities who share their experience of working... (more)
Controlling Your Drinking: Tools to Make Moderation Work for You: Second Edition
Millions of people would like to cut down on their drinking without giving it up altogether and this encouraging book has helped many make that goal a reality. Distinguished clinician-researchers... (more)
Alcohol-Related Violence: Prevention and Treatment
Presents an authoritative collection of the most recent assessment and treatment strategies for alcohol-related aggression and violence.
* Features contributions from leading international... (more)
Integral Recovery: A Revolutionary Approach to the Treatment of Alcoholism and Addiction
'Business owner of successful consulting company presents a pragmatic approach to spiritual development by indentifying twenty-one measurable spiritual intelligence skills described in faith-neutral... (more)
Creating the Capacity for Attachment: Treating Addictions and the Alienated Self
Detached, alienated people, many of them functioning with a pathologically developed false self, barely navigate life's challenges. Our cultural emphasis on autonomy and separateness has led to a... (more)
Integrating 12 Steps and Psychotherapy: Helping Clients Find Sobriety and Recovery
This book is intended to helpastudents and clients integrate 12-step treatment with psychotherapy. The book is the first to do so in a systematic fashion. It covers issues of pre-treatment and then... (more)
Substance Abuse Treatment and the Stages of Change: Selecting and Planning Interventions: Second Edition
A widely adopted practitioner resource and course text, this book shows how to apply knowledge about behavior change in general-and the stages-of-change model in particular-to make substance abuse... (more)
Women and Problem Gambling: Therapeutic Insights into Understanding Addiction and Treatment
Addiction is much misunderstood. Women and addictive gambling even more so, and for many years women have suffered in silence. This book explores how lonely, troubled lives and damaging relationships... (more)
Understanding Addiction as Self Medication: Finding Hope Behind the Pain
Addictive behaviors beg for an informed explanation to guide patients, families, students, and clinicians through the maddening and often incomprehensible nature of the addictions. Too often... (more)
Cognitive Therapy for Addiction: Motivation and Change
An innovative new approach to addiction treatment that pairs cognitive behavioural therapy with cognitive neuroscience, to directly target the core mechanisms of addiction. Offers a focus on... (more)
Working with Drug and Alcohol Users: A Guide to Providing Understanding, Assessment and Support
Working with Drug and Alcohol Users provides an accessible guide to substance use and working with substance users. Using transactional analysis theory, the author explains why some people use... (more)
Drug Dreams: Clinical and Research Implications of Dreams about Drugs in Drug-addicted Patients
"Drug dreams", or the dreams in which drug-dependent patients use or attempt to use the drugs that they are addicted to, are a well-documented clinical phenomenon in various forms of drug addiction.... (more)
Group Cognitive Therapy for Addictions
This pragmatic guide from a stellar team of authors including Cognitive Therapy originator Aaron T. Beck describes how to implement proven cognitive and behavioral addiction treatment strategies in a... (more)
Women and Addiction: A Comprehensive Handbook
This volume brings together leading authorities to review the state of the science and identify key directions for research and clinical practice. (more)
Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality
While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have been profoundly disturbed by it. Part of the danger lies in how the Internet allows us... (more)
Treating Substance Abuse: Theory and Technique: Third Edition
Widely adopted, this state-of-the-art text and clinical resource captures the breadth of current knowledge about substance abuse and its treatment. For each of the major evidence-based treatment... (more)
Practicing Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: An Alternative Approach to Addictions: Second Edition
This acclaimed clinical guide has helped thousands of clinicians put the proven principles of harm reduction into practice with therapy clients who have substance use problems. Written by pioneers in... (more)
Men, Addiction, and Intimacy: Strengthening Recovery by Fostering the Emotional Development of Boys and Men
In the substance abuse and addiction treatment realm, males outnumber females two to one. While gender-issues are seen as a key element of women's treatment, the acknowledgement that males are... (more)
Understanding Addiction Behaviours: Theoretical and Clinical Practice in Health and Social Care
Are you looking for a book that is about more than just drugs or alcohol misuse? This comprehensive text uniquely examines both pharmacological and non-pharmacological addictions. Highlighting the... (more)
Understanding and Working with Substance Misusers
Explores the complex nature of addiction and the challenges involved in responding effectively through policy and practice. It examines the biopyschosocial elements of addiction to substances... (more)