Substance Abuse Counseling: Theory and Practice (4th Edition)
Substance Abuse Counseling: Theory and Practice (4th Edition)
Known for clarity, accessibility, and practicality, this widely-used book thoroughly examines substance abuse in the population, addressing both ways to measure the problem and how to treat individuals and families who seek assistance. It educates prospective clinicians and counselors by guiding them, step-by-step, through the process of working with substance-abuse clients. Chapter content builds in sequence; however, each chapter can be taken as a stand-alone source of valuable information. Individual chapters on special populations add substantial depth to the text’s treatment of its subject.
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Midwest Master Gardener said,
Wrote on August 16, 2011 @ 5:08 am
a pretty good substance abuse textbook,
I just finished a graduate level course on substance abuse counseling, and this was my text. It’s a pretty good textbook, with a lot of good information. Most of it is pretty dry reading though. Like a lot of graduate level textbooks, it’s written in a dry yet information-dense style, which makes information retention challenging.
The best chapters by far are 1 – histories of various drugs of abuse, and 2 – their effects on the body.
I wasn’t very fond of the sample cases they had in the text. I would have preferred a lot of “real life” case studies, with the interventions that were attempted, alternative interventions suggested by other experts, and outcomes.
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|cam29 said,
Wrote on August 16, 2011 @ 5:36 am
Excellent resource!,
This book provides a wealth of information on substance and alcohol abuse. It is an interesting and informative book. It gives an overview of common substances and their affects on the body. Case studies provide practical application for concepts presented in the book. Must have for those working in the substance abuse field or those who just want to learn more.
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|Daneman said,
Wrote on August 16, 2011 @ 5:43 am
Depth and scope of addictions limited,
Substance Abuse Counseling: Theory and Practice covers the most common themes found in the area of addictions. As advertised by the title, it only covers substance abuse based addictions and says nothing about process addictions such as gambling, sex, etc. addictions. The first two chapters in the book focus on the various substance and their categories (i.e. depressants, stimulants, etc.). This could have been condensed into one small chapter, instead the authors chose to give information regarding each drug such as street names, tolerance issues, overdose, etc. The fact is that this information is readily available on the Internet and does not need to be covered in such detail as the book. The third chapter covers etiologies of substance use. The major theories are discussed: moral, disease model, genetic, behavioral, socio-cultural, and an integrated approach. The truth is, there is more theories covering addiction than these ones and they are not covered at all. The ones that are covered are given appropriate depth. The chapter on assessment was particularly rich with information. After this, the rest of the book is acceptable in it’s depth and detail.
The readability of this book is nothing to shout about, though I have read worse text books. This book was good enough for me to keep it, though it is not one of the top books that is in my collection. I decided to keep it mostly because the content is unique in that there are not very many texts regarding addiction counseling out there that I am aware of.
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