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Understanding the nature of the concern : individual perspectives -- Understanding the nature of the concern : environmental perspectives -- Why be concerned? -- Foundational factors -- Skills for treatment and recovery -- Skills for prevention and education -- Helpful processes -- Resourceful approaches -- Personal and professional strategies -- Leadership and advocacy within an evolving societal context -- Believing in yourself : taking care of yourself -- Vision for the future.

Frontmatter -- Foreword / Archibald, H. David -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables -- I. The Design of the Study -- II. The Research Setting: Alcoholism Clinics -- III. Characteristics of Clinic Patients at Intake -- IV. The Nature of Clinic Treatment -- V. Change and the Problem of Improvement -- VI. Predictors of Improvement -- VII. Qualitative Analysis of Cases -- VIII. Summary and Discussion -- Appendix: Research Instruments and Manuals for Personnel of Alcoholism Services Participating in the NYU-NAAAP Follow-Up Study -- References

Begin Recovery Work -- Face Addiction -- Affirm Recovery -- Develop a Strategic Recovery Plan -- Set Recovery Goals -- Determine Motivation for Recovery -- Inventory Resources and Risks for Recovery -- Draft Recovery Objectives -- Act for Recovery -- Evaluate Recovery Work and Competency Development -- Record Recovery Work and Competency Development -- Construct a Recovery Lifestyle.

"Addiction is a national mental and medical health crisis, responsible for untold costs to our society and severe suffering to innumerable people. Yet addiction treatment, as it is now practiced, fails half the time. The current treatment approach has changed little in the last 80 years and is a hodgepodge of often-shady treatment approaches. This book presents a radically different addiction treatment paradigm, based on science, evidence and best practices, and has a success rate approaching 100% when followed closely. This model will profoundly upend the current addiction treatment industry. Nearly every addict lives in a social system, a family, workplace or community that enables and supports, often unconsciously, the addict's addiction. Instead of the current addict-focused approach, this model extends treatment to the entire support system, starting treatment with the concerned family members. This model also proposes a single provider, the family recovery therapist, who oversees and manages treatment for the addict and the family from the first phone call through the first year of continuous sobriety. This book offers simple recommendations to both addiction treatment providers and family members impacted by this brain disease. It serves as a beacon of hope for families impacted by addiction"--

The pathway to addiction -- Understanding your inner child -- The 11 inner children -- The bored child -- The unaffirmed child -- The unnoticed child -- The emotionally voided child -- The need for control child -- The entitled-spiteful child -- The inferior-weak child -- The stressed child -- The early sexually stimulated-sexually abused child -- The spiritually wounded child -- The enmeshed child -- How to effectively manage your inner child.

The psychopathology of drug addiction is reviewed. Empirical research data on a time span of more than twelve years are presented. The data support a four-type-based classification of drug abusers, and the family structure underlining such personality types is analyzed. Clinical cases are presented. Type A addicts (adjustment disorders) present an evident relation between the external event, psychic trauma, and drug-abusing behavior. Type B (neurotic disorders) have a tendency to reduce internal anxiety by drug abuse, and their personal problems may be covered by drug use. Type C (psychosis and borderline) are an heterogeneous group, where often drug use can create a intense experience of inner freedom. Type D (sociopathic personality disorders) often express their psychic conflicts by means of serious acting-out, and come from families were "nonexistent" marriages were established. Intervention in public health services is examined, as well as the evolution of the addiction depending on the typology. The special cases of information on HIV infection prevention and overdose risk are also evaluated. It is concluded that the typology of drug addicts may shed light on prevention and therapy, whereas more specific therapeutic programs are needed.

Abstract: Aim: The article presents the basic tenants of dialectical phenomenological psychopathology (DPP) of temporal experience in substance-related disorders. Results: DPP examines the conditions of possibility of lived experiences. It goes beyond mere qualitative descriptions of subjective psychological states to identify their pre-reflective structures. The modifications of these structures are considered essential to mental disorders, including additions. The paper argues that the phenomenon of addiction arises when there is a failure of the dynamic process of temporal balances and imbalances between the dimensions of lived past, present, and future. In such an altered state, the present pathologically dominates over past and future. Personal history and future consequences of intoxicated behaviour are disregarded. The future in particular loses its 'normal' characteristic of a probable horizon of present experience and becomes 'actualized' as present continuous. At the same time, a part of the future 'dissociates' from the present objective situation and becomes improbable. To substantiate these claims, the article presents four case vignettes of clients suffering from such pathological entanglement of temporal dimensions. Conclusions: DPP may be seen as an invaluable approach to examine the dialectical structure of human experience. As such, it constitutes a promising paradigm for the 21st century person-centered psychiatry.

Is addiction a loss to grieve? / Susan Furr -- A primer on grief theories and their application to substance use recovery / Susan Furr -- The counselor's own grief / Susan Furr -- Understanding the brain : grief and substance abuse / Emily A. Barton -- Women, substance use, and grief / Susan Furr -- Men, substance use, and grief / Mark S. Woodford -- African Americans : substance use, grief, and loss / Connie T. Jones and Gillian R. Galdy -- Addiction and grief in the Latinx community / Daniel Gutierrez, Michelle Colon, and Stephanie Dorais -- Grief and substance use in Asian Americans / Kok-Mun Ng, Susan Furr, Yun Shi, and Krupali Michaels -- Addiction and grief in the Native American community / Kathleen Brown-Rice and Vanessa Iverson -- Addiction and grief in the LGBTQ community / Pamela S. Lassiter, Michael Spivey, and Derrick Johnson -- Addiction and grief in the military / Hank Harris and Lyndon Abrams -- Addiction and grief in the elderly / Christine Tina Chasek -- Grieving traumatic experiences and addiction : an adolescent perspective / Regina Moro -- Addiction and grief in the prison population / Leigh Falls Holman -- Addiction and grief in Christianity / John Nance -- Grief and Substance Use in Hindu Communities / Sejal Foxx -- Grief and substance abuse in Muslim community / Tahsin Ilhan -- A Buddhist perspective on loss due to addiction / Christie Nelson -- Counseling activities to address grief and substance use / Kathryn Hunsucker and Susan Furr -- Using metaphors : an effective and person-centered approach to grief and substance abuse counseling / Derrick Johnson and Hannah Glenn.

Provides a comprehensive overview of psychological approaches to understanding addictions. Without denying the importance of biological Factors, Emphasis Is Placed More Upon Social, Psychological And Emotional factors as is necessary to a complete understanding of addiction

Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- 1. Getting Started -- 2. Understanding the Interplay between Relationships, Addiction, and Recovery Efforts -- 3. Identifying Barriers to Working on Relationships and Staying Motivated -- 4. Exploring the Unhealthy and Healthy Aspects of Your Relationships -- 5. Developing Your Communication Skills -- 6. Providing and Seeking Validation -- 7. Being Honest with Yourself and Others -- 8. Rebuilding Trust -- 9. Setting and Maintaining Healthy Boundaries -- 10. Ending Relationships Appropriately -- 11. Building Emotional Intimacy -- 12. Monitoring Your Relationships and Relationship Skills -- Resources -- Index -- .