Working with Drug and Alcohol Users

A Guide to Providing Understanding, Assessment and Support

Tony White

Paperback: £19.99 / $34.95

2012, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
ISBN: 978-1-84905-294-8, BIC 2: JKSN2 JKSN

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Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1. Foundations of Drug and Alcohol Counseling. 1. Drugs in Society and Addiction. 2. Fundamental Components of Drug Counseling. 3. Transactional Analysis and the Theory of Addiction. 4. Why People Use Drugs and their Treatment. Part 2. Specific Techniques in Counseling the Drug and Alcohol User. 5. The Harm Reduction Contract and Harm Reduction Counseling. 6. Assessment of the Drug and Alcohol User. 7. Drug Use Ambivalence. 8. Relapse Process Work. 9. Motivational Interviewing. 10. The Teenage Drug User. 11. Epilogue. References. Further Reading. Index.

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Author information

• Tony White

Subject areas

• Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
• Health, Social Work and Social Care

Keywords

• addiction,
• alcohol,
• counselling,
• drugs,
• health care,
• mental health,
• psychology,
• psychotherapy,
• social work,
• substance abuse