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Help your clients find the path to overcoming their addiction

Alcoholics 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 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 accompanies ready-to-use tools for practice. With a special emphasis on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, the author walks you through the first five steps of this established methodology in comprehensive detail, 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 CAGE questionnaires)
• Tests for other potentially related problems such as gambling and sexual addiction
• A sample behavioral contract for use with adolescents
• Listings of additional resources

The treatment of alcoholism is fraught with struggles and hazards for both client and caregiver. Written in a lively tone that resonates with the author's compassion for his own clients, Treating Alcoholism gives you reliable, up-to-date, and practice-tested information and materials you need to successfully confront this deadly disease and start your clients on the path to recovery.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #788448 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-06
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

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Treating Alcoholism is an invaluable tool for mental health professionals who work with alcoholic clients. In addition to the basics, this book teaches the addiction counselor how to use the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous for treating adult and adolescent alcoholics. This easy-to-read and informative book contains valuable ancillaries including a sample treatment plan, copies of alcohol screening tests (SMAST and CAGE Questionnaire), as well as tests for other problems like gambling and sexual addiction, listings of resources, and a sample behavioral contract to use with adolescents.

About the Author
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).

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Treating Alcoholism is an invaluable tool for mental health professionals who work with alcoholic clients. In addition to the basics, this book teaches the addiction counselor how to use the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous for treating adult and adolescent alcoholics. This easy-to-read and informative book contains valuable ancillaries including a sample treatment plan, copies of alcohol screening tests (SMAST and CAGE Questionnaire), as well as tests for other problems like gambling and sexual addiction, listings of resources, and a sample behavioral contract to use with adolescents.

Customer Reviews

From guilt to perfection in one easy lession!
I found this book to be the perfect book for helping my clients, many of whom are alcohoics or addicts. I always wanted to help them but they kept getting mad. After reading this book, the fight doesn't happen anymore. I learned how to gently walk my clients toward the truth and best of all they all want to come. It is tremendously rewarding to save my client's lives rather than watch them go home to die. I felt terribly guity about doing this but I don't have to feel that way any more. Now I can be proud of myself, my work, and my patients who are in recovery.