Introduction to addictive behaviors

Description

Multiple conceptions of addictive behavior and professional practice today -- Disease models -- Public health and prevention approaches -- Toward an understanding of comorbidity -- Psychoanalytic formulations -- Conditioning models and approaches to contingency management -- Cognitive models -- Family system -- Social and cultural foundations -- Conditions that facilitate and inhibit change in addictive behavior.;This book was written for practicing health and human services professionals with no formal training in substance abuse prevention and treatment, and for undergraduate and graduate courses on addictive behavior. The book has two primary goals. [It] is to challenge and strengthen the reader's understanding of addiction by exploring how others in the field have come to know it. [It] is [also] to show the reader how theory and research are important to both the prevention and the treatment of substance abuse.-Pref.