Achievement and Addiction - A Guide to the Treatment of Professionals

Achievement and Addiction strives to answer those difficult questions, and, in so doing, to provide mental health professionals with the expertise necessary successfully to guide this unique population on their journey toward recovery

List of contents

Chapter 1 Chapter 1 The Professional Paradox; Chapter 2 CHAPTER 2 The Generic Concept of Chemical Dependence; Chapter 3 CHAPTER 3 Etiologic Variables of Addiction; Chapter 4 CHAPTER 4 Initial Steps: Intervention and Diagnosis/Evaluation; Chapter 5 CHAPTER 5 Medical Students and Residents; Chapter 6 CHAPTER 6 Physicians; Chapter 7 CHAPTER 7 Nurses; Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Pharmacists; Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Attorneys; Chapter 10 CHAPTER 10 Executives; Chapter 11 CHAPTER 11 The Recovery Process; Chapter 12 CHAPTER 12 Matching the Patient to Level of Care; Chapter 13 CHAPTER 13 Specific Treatments; Chapter 14 CHAPTER 14 Twelve-Step Programs; APPENDIX A Guidelines for Taking a Substance Abuse History; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C Withdrawal Signs, Symptoms, Techniques; APPENDIX D Impaired Health Professional's Treatment Contract; References; Name Index; Subject; Index;

About the author

Nace, Edgar P.

Product details

• Authors: Edgar P Nace, Edgar P. Nace, Nace Edgar P.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.2015
• EAN: 9781138883727
• ISBN: 978-1-138-88372-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, Addiction & therapy, Addiction and therapy