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Addiction

Psychology and Treatment
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Addiction: Psychology and Treatment offers a thorough exploration of the psychology behind addictions and the various treatment methods used across different specialities and services. It highlights multiple approaches including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), psychodynamic, systemic, and family treatments, providing both theoretical insight and practical application. The book also addresses recent advances in psychological perspectives that support recovery for individuals facing drug and alcohol problems.
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Addiction: Psychology and Treatment brings together leading psychologists to provide a comprehensive overview of the psychology of addictions and their treatment across specialities and types of services.

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Addiction: Psychology and Treatment brings together leading psychologists to provide a comprehensive overview of the psychology of addictions and their treatment across specialities and types of services.

This book:

  • Emphasises the use of several approaches including CBT, psychodynamic and systemic and family treatments, and consideration of the wider picture of addictions.
  • Provides a clear overview of the application of these models, alongside the theories.
  • Reflects the very latest developments in the role played by psychological perspectives and interventions in the recovery agenda for problem drug and alcohol users.

Series: BPS Textbooks in Psychology

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118489758

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 July 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

  • Edited by Sue Jackson
  • Edited by Paul Davis
  • Edited by Robert Patton

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 188.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 658g

Pages: 336

About the Author

Paul Davis is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Addiction, and Teaching Fellow in Clinical Psychology at the University of Surrey, UK. He has contributed at a national level on substance misuse treatment guidelines, policies and service developments and has published widely in the field of psychosocial interventions for substance misuse.

Bob Patton is a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Surrey, UK, Director of Short Term Solutions Ltd and Director of AdApped Ltd. He has previously worked as a consultant for the Home Office Drugs Prevention Initiative and as a Research Fellow in Addiction at Imperial College, King's College London and the Maudsley Hospital Hospital.

Sue Jackson is a chartered psychologist specialising in the psychosocial impact and treatment of chronic health conditions. In addition to managing an extensive research portfolio, she is a teaching fellow on the Clinical Psychology Doctorate Programme at the University of Surrey and is the first psychologist to serve on the Medical Advisory Committee for the Pituitary Foundation.

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