The Essential Handbook of Treatment and Prevention of Alcohol Problems [Paperback]

The last three decades have seen an explosion of social, psychological and clinical research to identify effective strategies to prevent and treat alcohol-related problems. This “Essential Handbook” contains an updated selection of reviews of “what works” drawn from the critically acclaimed International Handbook of Alcohol Dependence and Problems.

 

Selected specifically for health and other professionals, who need to provide effective responses in their work, these authoritative, science-based reviews are a distillation of the more practical elements, designed to save time for the busy practitioner.

 

About the Editors.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

PART I: TREATMENT AND RECOVERY (Editor: Nick Heather).

Editor’s Introduction.

Chapter 1: The Effectiveness of Treatment (Janice M. Brown).

Chapter 2: Assessment for Brief Intervention and Treatment (Malissa Yang & Harvey Skinner).

Chapter 3: Alcohol Withdrawal and Detoxification (Duncan Raistrick).

Chapter 4: Pharmacological Treatments (Jonathan Chick).

Chapter 5: Cognitive-behavioural Alcohol Treatment (George A. Parks, G. Alan Marlatt & Britt K. Anderson).

Chapter 6: Relapse Prevention Therapy (George A. Parks, Britt K. Anderson & G. Alan Marlatt).

Chapter 7: Motivational Interviewing (Stephen Rollnick & Jeff Allison).

Chapter 8: Brief Interventions (Nick Heather).

Chapter 9: Treating Comorbidity of Alcohol Problems and Psychiatric Disorder (Kim T. Mueser & David Kavanagh).

Chapter 10: Natural Recovery from Alcohol Problems (HalSJ