Crack Cocaine - A Practical Treatment Approach For The Chemically Dependent

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

1: Crack; 1: Societal Demand, the Art of Drug Distribution, and the Pharmacology of Crack; 2: DSM-III-R; 3: Psychosocial Characteristics of the Crack Dependent; 2: Theory and Implications for Clinical Technique; 4: Pharmacological Approaches; 5: Psychoanalytic Approaches; 6: Behavioral Approaches; 7: Case Examples; 3: Crack-Treatment Models; 8: What Works for Crack-Cocaine Smokers in Treatment?; 9: What Treatments Are Promising for Crack Smokers?; 4: Clinical Technique in the Assessment Phase; 10: The Clinical Interview; 11: Clinical Techniques to Engage the Ambivalent Crack user in Treatment; 5: Clinical Technique in the Treatment Phase; 12: Clearing Obstacles to Effective Treatment of the Chemically Dependent; 13: The Need for a Multifaceted Technique To Address Multideterminants of Relapse; 14: A Model of Relapse Prevention; 15: Conclusion

About the author

Barbara C. Wallace

Summary

Using first-hand experience, the author presents a practical treatment approach, originally designed for crack patients, but generally applicable to chemical dependency problems.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara C Wallace, Wallace Barbara C.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1991
• EAN: 9780876306048
• ISBN: 978-0-87630-604-8
• No. of pages: 322
• Weight: 760 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, Psychotherapy, Addiction and therapy, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects