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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959559303321

Autore

Perkinson Robert R

Titolo

Treating alcoholism : helping your clients find the road to recovery / / Robert R. Perkinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2004

ISBN

9786610346219

9781280346217

1280346213

9780471681724

0471681725

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Disciplina

616.86/10651

Soggetti

Alcoholism - Treatment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-307) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Recognizing alcohol problems -- Critical concepts -- Treatment planning -- The tools of recovery -- The steps -- Dual diagnosis -- Adolescent treatment -- Terminating treatment and preventing relapse -- The recovery community -- Into the future.

Sommario/riassunto

Help your clients find the path to overcoming their addictionAlcoholics are one of the most difficult client groups to treat effectively. To preserve their way of life, they may lie about their problem or deny that one exists; that is the nature of this profoundly powerful disease. Yet if you can guide each of your clients through their own resistance towards the truth, not only will you be rewarded with starting them on the road to recovery, you will no doubt have saved their life as well. Achieving such a victory goes to the heart of being an addiction counselor; it is the experience