Clinical Work with Substance-Abusing Clients, Second EditionShulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner This widely adopted text offers practical guidance for working with substance abusers and their families in a variety of clinical contexts. Expert contributors present major assessment and treatment approaches together with detailed recommendations for intervening with specific substances and meeting the needs of different populations. Throughout, helpful case vignettes illustrate how to translate the ideas presented into practice and overcome common stumbling blocks. Practitioners and students will find all the information needed to stay current in the field in this authoritative, comprehensive, and highly accessible work. |
Contents
Chapter 1 Assessment and Treatment of Clients with Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Problems | 3 |
Chapter 2 Motivating SubstanceAbusing Clients through the Helping Process | 39 |
Chapter 3 The Clinical Practice of Harm Reduction | 65 |
Chapter 4 Working with Mandated Substance Abusers | 82 |
Chapter 5 Assessment and Intervention with Clients Who Have Coexisting Psychiatric and SubstanceRelated Disorders | 103 |
Chapter 6 12Step Programs as a Treatment Modality | 125 |
Chapter 7 Relapse Prevention | 146 |
Chapter 8 Treatment of Alcohol Problems | 171 |
Chapter 13 Dynamics and Treatment Issues with Children of Drug and Alcohol Abusers | 284 |
Chapter 14 Assessment and Treatment of Adolescent Substance Abusers | 305 |
Chapter 15 Substance Abuse Problems among Older Adults | 330 |
Chapter 16 Assessment and Intervention with Alcohol and DrugAbusing Women | 347 |
Chapter 17 Substance Abusers with Borderline Disorders | 370 |
Chapter 18 Treatment of Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Substance Abusers | 392 |
Chapter 19 Substance Abuse in Homeless Persons | 423 |
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