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  • Controlled Drinking

    by Nick Heather, Ian Robertson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Alcohol and Alcoholism
    Originally published in 1981 and revised in 1983, Controlled Drinking was the first scholarly review of the literature on a controversial but increasingly practiced approach to the treatment of alcoholism. Nick Heather and Ian Robertson analyse all the pertinent questions that controlled drinking raises, starting with the need to examine the ‘disease conception’ of alcoholism and ‘total abstinence ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Misuse of Alcohol

    Crucial Issues in Dependence Treatment and Prevention

    Edited by Nick Heather, Ian H. Robertson, Phil Davies ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Alcohol and Alcoholism
    In the 1980s the study of alcoholism was in a period of rapid change, this book, originally published in 1985, identifies and explores the three most controversial contemporary issues: changes at the basic explanatory level in our concept of harmful drinking; the undermining of our confidence that drinking behaviour can be effectively modified in the traditional context of ‘treatment’; and the ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction

    Edited by Nick Heather, Matt Field, Sally Satel, Antony Moss ...
    This ground-breaking book advances the fundamental debate about the nature of addiction. As well as presenting the case for seeing addiction as a brain disease, it brings together all the most cogent and penetrating critiques of the brain disease model of addiction (BDMA) and the main grounds for being skeptical of BDMA claims.The idea that addiction is a brain disease dominates thinking and ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Addiction and Choice

    Rethinking the relationship

    Edited by Nick Heather, Gabriel Segal ...
    The central problem in the study of addiction is to explain why people repeatedly behave in ways they know are bad for them. For much of the previous century and until the present day, the majority of scientific and medical attempts to solve this problem were couched in terms of involuntary behavior; if people behave in ways they do not want, then this must be because the behavior is beyond their ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Treating Addictive Behaviors

    Processes of Change

    Edited by William R. Miller, Nick Heather ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    About a decade ago, psychologists began exploring the commonalities among alcohol and drug abuse, smoking, and obesity. The term sub stance abuse evolved into the current concept of addictive behaviors, which recognizes similarities with other behaviors that do not involve consummatory responses (e. g. , pathological gambling, compulsions, sexual deviations). Professional societies and journals ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Psychology Of Addiction

    by Mary McMurran ...
    This text provides a comprehensive overview of psychological approaches to understanding addictions. Without denying the importance of biological Factors, Emphasis Is Placed More Upon Social, Psychological And Emotional factors as is necessary to a complete understanding of addiction. Within this framework, an addiction is not limited to substance-based behaviours such as drinking alcohol, smoking ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Madness Explained

    Psychosis and Human Nature

    by Richard P Bentall ...
    A revised edition of Madness Explained, Richard Bentall's groundbreaking classic on mental illnessIn Madness Explained, leading clinical psychologist Richard Bentall shatters the modern myths that surround psychosis. Is madness purely a medical condition that can be treated with drugs? Is there a clear dividing line between who is sane and who is insane? For this revised edition, he adds new ... Read more

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  • The Book of Ethics

    Expert Guidance For Professionals Who Treat Addiction

    by Laura Weiss Roberts ...
    The definitive book on ethics for chemical dependency treatment professionals.The treatment of addiction as a biological, psychological, social, and spiritual disease requires a high standard of ethical knowledge and professional skill. This groundbreaking, reader-friendly guide to contemporary ethical issues informs and challenges health care professionals, students, and faculty with a thorough ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Substance and Behavioral Addictions

    Concepts, Causes, and Cures

    by Steve Sussman ...
    Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Concepts, Causes, and Cures presents the concepts, etiology, assessment, prevention, and cessation of substance (tobacco, alcohol, other drugs, and food) and behavioral (gambling, Internet, shopping, love, sex, exercise, and work) addictions. The text provides a novel and integrative appetitive motivation framework of addiction, while acknowledging and ... Read more

    $52.49 USD

  • Mental Health in Counselling and Psychotherapy

    by Norman Claringbull ...
    Series series Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice Series
    This book examines how counsellors and psychotherapists interact with those clients who may suffer from mental health issues. While practising counsellors and psychotherapists meet clients who have problems across the entire mental health spectrum, there are a number of particular disorders that these practitioners are particularly likely to encounter. These include anxiety, depression, stress, ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Bereavement

    Studies of Grief in Adult Life, Fourth Edition

    by Colin Murray Parkes, Holly G. Prigerson ...
    The loss of a loved one is one of the most painful experiences that most of us will ever have to face in our lives. This book recognises that there is no single solution to the problems of bereavement but that an understanding of grief can help the bereaved to realise that they are not alone in their experience.Long recognised as the most authoritative work of its kind, this new edition has been ... Read more

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  • Addiction Neuroethics

    The Ethics of Addiction Neuroscience Research and Treatment

    Edited by Adrian Carter, Wayne Hall, Judy Illes ...
    Research increasingly suggests that addiction has a genetic and neurobiological basis, but efforts to translate research into effective clinical treatments and social policy needs to be informed by careful ethical analyses of the personal and social implications. Scientists and policy makers alike must consider possible unintended negative consequences of neuroscience research so that the promise ... Read more

    $89.99 USD