Addiction and therapy Books

Video game addictions, also known as gaming disorders, or internet gaming disorders, are generally defined as a problematic, compulsive use of video and/or internet games that results in significant impairment to a person's ability to function in various...

Integrating Psychological and Pharmacological Treatments for Addictive Disorders distills the complex literature on addiction, offering a curated toolbox of integrated pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatments in chapters authored by leading...

Posttraumatic Stress and Substance Use Disorders summarizes the state of the field from a biopsychosocial perspective, addressing key domains of interest to clinicians, students, instructors, and researchers. This book is a valuable resource and...

Addiction: What's Really Going On? contains powerful true-life storieswoven together to form a tapestry filled with pain, joy, defeat, and success.The entire book is molded around Deborah McCloskey's heartfeltdesire for her clients to be free of drugs...

How do we stop young people from dying from addiction?  What is the ONE THING that is critically missing from society's debate on addiction?    These 12 stories of hope from college students, graduates, and a mother of a child in...

This book describes risk associated with smoking among school children and adolescents living within the Palestinian territories. The book suggests ways to incorporate schools as venues for behavioral transformation and positive change to help control...

Acamprosate is the first new anticraving agent used prophylactically to prevent relapse in alcohol-dependent patients. This book presents an overview on basic mechanisms in alcohol dependence and craving and all the preclinical...

The Art of Addiction is a powerful resource born from an eight-week program to take individuals on a path of self-discovery and rehumanization. Designed by Kate Feigin and based on the writing of Nicole Daedone, the workbook combines Daedone's...

The Shadow of a Figure of Light: the Archetype of the Alcoholic and the Journey to Enlightenment delves into the nature of modern psychospiritual transformation by examining the human thirst for wholeness through the lens of alcoholism and addiction...

"Psychodrama is one of the most effective treatments of PTSD and developmental trauma that I am familiar with, and Tian Dayton has written a terrific manual to serve as our guide."- Bessel van der Kolk, MD, professor of psychiatry at Boston University...

Pathways to Self-Discovery and Change: A Guide for Responsible Living - The Participant’s Workbook, Second Edition provides a written and richly illustrated format through which clients can better understand and reflect on each of 32...

Increase your awareness of the relative addiction liabilities of various drugs and drug classes that are commonly abused. A timely and masterful new book, Addiction Potential of Abused Drugs and Drug Classes clarifies, in contemporary terminology, the...

The production of this book represents a culmination for me of some 25 years of interest in the field of personality and substance use and abuse. In choosing the field of substanceuse and abuse for the focus of our research,...

Based on findings from a sample of nearly 1,100 Puerto Ricans living in the New York area, this book posits that adhering to traditional cultural values (for example, the family) has the socially desirable consequence of...

Lust, Men, and Meth: A Gay Man's Guide to Sex and Recovery provides insight for gay men struggling with the issues of sex and recovery, and for the professionals who work with them. The reader is equipped not only with essential...

After "Hobby Trumps Heartache" launched last year the Broken Giant series, Pat Clisham brings another stunning first-person narrative portrait of the heart and soul of the life story of an aging man whose end is near. And it isn't pretty. ...

"Beyond Sober: You Put Down the Booze, Now What?" is a must-read for anyone who has recently made the decision to stop drinking and is looking for practical tips and strategies to help them stay sober. Written by a woman in recovery who has dedicated...

·        Are you a healthcare professional who feels ill-equipped to support your clients trapped in drug or alcohol addiction? ·        Does the mention of your...

Substance use continues to be a major public health problem, and the ramifications of this are manifold. For instance, at present, on a yearly basis, the total economic cost of substance misuse is literally hundreds of billions of dollars. These costs...

Help clients pivot away from the question "Am I an alcoholic?" and consider instead "Would my life be better without alcohol?"  Amanda E. White, mental health clinician, creator of the popular Instagram account @therapyforwomen, and author of...

So often, addiction is viewed as a disease or an uncontrollable habit that signals a lack of willpower. In Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy for Addictions, IFS educator Cece Sykes, IFS author Martha Sweezy, and IFS founder, Richard Schwartz, suggest...

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This book is a treatment manual providing guidance for therapists treating clients with gambling addictions.In this book the authors use a cognitive behavioural approach and provide a session by session guide for overcoming problem gambling. Essential...

Lying Minds: An Insiders guide to alcoholismAlcoholics are not damaged, faulty or broken, and we aren't bad or weak people; we are deceived: deceived by our own minds.Most people that drink heavily in their youth will mature out of it and those that...

Responding to Drug Misuse provides a unique insight into the current shape of the drugs treatment system in England.Reporting findings from research linked to the government's ten year drugs strategy Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain, the book...

Lies. Betrayal. Memories. These are the things that haunt Michelle every day. Though she tries desperately to numb the thoughts of her past with alcohol, no amount is ever enough to quiet them entirely. Even after relocating from the Midwest to Long...

After suffering depression following a catastrophic event at 17, Sharon Greenwald knows she'll commit suicide one day. But she never considered what would happen if she survived. Not even a lifelong eating disorder stemming from an abortion, watching her...

The Addiction Recovery Workbook provides the structured and proven frameworks that you need to follow to achieve lasting results. This guide:Explains the science behind addiction, how it affects the brain, and how to control it.Outlines usual symptoms of...

As long as you're operating out of what you've been told addiction is -and all the myths and lies that go along with that- you will never be able to choose beyond it. If you are willing to consider a radically different approach to addiction,...

In The Opioid Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions, Laura Hernandez delves into the multifaceted issue of opioid addiction, exploring its causes, consequences, and potential solutions. From examining the role of the pharmaceutical industry to...

Digital Addiction: The Psychological Impact of Screen Time by Priya Mehta is a comprehensive exploration of the effects of digital addiction on mental health, with a focus on screen time, gaming addiction, social media addiction, and internet addiction...

In our current digital era, imagination and the cultural and material conditions by which it is developed are more crucially than ever implicated in the experienced adversities and contradictions of drug use. The technological changes of society...

A middle-aged transvestite presents his unusual life story in a fiction-inspired-by-fact account, describing his complex struggles with crossdressing and gender identity and his efforts to deal with various chronic addictions, including those involving...

S-Theory is the first new theory of personality of the 21st century, coming into existence almost 50 years since the last major theory of such was published and endorsed. S-Theory is the first major theory to come into existence that also defines and...

This newly updated and streamlined edition of Group Psychotherapy with Addicted Populations provides proven strategies for combating alcohol and drug addiction through group psychotherapy.

This edited volume aims to facilitate the evolution of the new public health approach towards gambling. Bringing together the work of international experts, it gives a current overview of the field, highlighting the need for a coordinated framework of...

Grief and Addiction illuminates the role of grief work in addiction counseling, encouraging counselors to be more comprehensive in their treatment and to increase empathy for what the treatment process is asking of clients.Acknowledging that entering...

Every day, huge numbers of people use drugs or alcohol for recreation, medication, celebration, stress management, social lubrication, or escape. The abuse of psychoactive chemicals touches individual lives in countless ways, and clients frequently hint...

Dual Disorders: Essentials for Assessment and Treatment is a practical handbook for the assessment and clinical management of patients with addiction and psychiatric disorders. Addictions counselors, prevention specialists, and chemical dependency nurses...

Addiction is a complex, widespread, and persistent problem and there's a lot to say about it. It has produced an enormous amount of human suffering. And what's particularly irksome is that this appears to be largely unnecessary and preventable. We should...

When Robin Monson-Dupuis, psychotherapist and substance abuse counselor, loses her son to a heroin overdose after an eight-year journey trying to help him stay alive, it shatters everything in her world. She finds her beliefs tested: her role as a...

Have you ever wondered what really happens in rehab?? Welcome to My World was written by psychotherapist and chemical dependency counselor, Mary Crocker Cook, to answer the question, “What really happens in rehab?”...

For the first time in one volume self-harm, substance abuse, eating-disordered behavior, gambling, and Internet and cyber sex abuse-five crippling, self-destructive behaviors-are given a common conceptual framework to help with therapeutic intervention...

Do you feel like you are wasting too much time on your smartphone? Do you feel like your digital technology use is becoming too habitual?Don't worry. You're not alone.If you feel like your gadgets are stealing a lot of your time, focus, and energy, then...

A collection of poetry, stories and diary excerpts from individuals who have been affected by self-harm. This book aims to raise awareness of self-harm, and to improve the general understanding of this somewhat taboo subject. All authors have, or still...

Born different, a boy struggles. His story draws you in. So, too, does his mother's relentless quest, albeit flawed, from the fight for an appropriate education through the fight for his life as he enters the harrowing world of addiction. The boy's...