Treating Alcoholism
Helping Your Clients Find the Road to Recovery
Published on 29. July 2004
304 pages
978-0-471-68172-4 (ISBN)
Description
Help your clients find the path to overcoming their addiction
Alcoholics are one of the most difficult client groups to treateffectively. To preserve their way of life, they may lie abouttheir problem or deny that one exists; that is the nature of thisprofoundly powerful disease. Yet if you can guide each of yourclients through their own resistance towards the truth, not onlywill you be rewarded with starting them on the road to recovery,you will no doubt have saved their life as well. Achieving such avictory goes to the heart of being an addiction counselor; it isthe experience of healing on a direct and tangible level.
Treating Alcoholism provides a complete road map for assessing,diagnosing, and treating this multifaceted and tenacious illness.Detailed clinical information on the disease accompaniesready-to-use tools for practice. With a special emphasis on the 12Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, the author walks you through thefirst five steps of this established methodology in comprehensivedetail, showing how to easily apply each one to treatment.
Other useful resources in Treating Alcoholism include:
* A sample treatment plan
* Copies of alcohol screening tests (SMAST and CAGEquestionnaires)
* Tests for other potentially related problems such as gambling andsexual addiction
* A sample behavioral contract for use with adolescents
* Listings of additional resources
The treatment of alcoholism is fraught with struggles and hazardsfor both client and caregiver. Written in a lively tone thatresonates with the author's compassion for his own clients,Treating Alcoholism gives you reliable, up-to-date, andpractice-tested information and materials you need to successfullyconfront this deadly disease and start your clients on the path torecovery.
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Robert R. Perkinson, PhD, resides in Canton, South Dakota. He is Clinical Director of the Keystone Treatment Center in South Dakota and the author of Chemical Dependency Counseling: A Practical Guide, Second Edition, a bestselling treatment manual for chemical dependency counselors. He is also coauthor of The Addiction Treatment Planner, Second Edition (Wiley).
Content
1. Recognizing Alcohol Problems.
2. Critical Concepts.
3. Treatment Planning.
4. The Tools of Recovery.
5. The Steps.
6. Dual Diagnosis.
7. Adolescent Treatment.
8. Terminating Treatment and Preventing Relapse.
9. The Recovery Community.
10. Into the Future.
Appendix 1: CAGE Questionnaire.
Appendix 2: Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test(SMAST).
Appendix 3: Alcohol Involvement Scale.
Appendix 4: Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment of AlcoholScale (CIWA).
Appendix 5: DSM-IV®-TR Psychoactive SubstanceUse Disorder.
Appendix 6: Cognitive Capacity Screening Examination.
Appendix 7: The Biopsychosocial Interview.
Appendix 8: Helping Patients with Alcohol Problems: A HealthPractitioner's Guide--National Institute on AlcoholAbuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).
Appendix 9: Barriers in Thinking: Blueprint for Change.
Appendix 10: National Council on Problem Gambling: 10 Questionsabout Gambling Behavior.
Appendix 11: Hamilton Anxiety Scale.
Appendix 12: The Behavioral Contract.
Appendix 13: The Sexual Addiction Screening Test (SAST).
Appendix 14: Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS).
Appendix 15: Fetal Alcohol Behavior Scale.
Appendix 16: Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale.
Appendix 17: Personal Recovery Plan.
References.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
