Title: Therapy of the substance abuse syndromes /
Authors: Richards, Henry Jay.; Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Double diagnostic (psychiatrie); Dual diagnosis; Dual diagnosis Treatment.; Mental Disorders psychology; Psychopathology; Substance-Related Disorders psychology; Substance-Related Disorders therapy; Toxicomanie Thérapeutique; Dual diagnosis; Dual diagnosis Treatment
Abstract: This book provides the reader with a systematic and comprehensive approach to substance abuse treatment. It explores new integrations of familiar approaches, introduces innovative theoretical constructs, and describes new practical applications. The models and methods presented have been developed specifically to address treatment planning for patients who have been recurrent treatment failures in both psychotherapy and addiction treatment programs. These approaches are also applicable to less refractory cases of substance abuse, and to nonsubstance addictions, such as compulsive sexual behavior.
Contents: Strategies -- Parallels and paradigms -- Confronting a problem -- Defining syndromes -- Emergent syndrome -- Defining dual diagnosis populations -- Key dimensions of dual diagnosis work -- Levels of severity for two pathological processes -- Developmental view -- Why the chicken-or-egg-first question in absurd -- Biases in reasoning -- Syndrome definitions and subpopulations -- Defining categories of dual diagnosis work -- Clues to treatment strategies -- Mapping a paradigm -- Disturbances in four spheres of functioning -- Incidence of depression in alcoholism -- Sorting casual links -- Role of depressed affect in the etiology of alcoholism -- Failures in self-protective biases -- Clinical implications -- Daily experiences and memory for moods -- Dual diagnosis perspective -- Simplifying the dual diagnosis dilemma -- Need for a general heuristic system -- Five symptom complexes -- Five biopsychosocial functions of addiction -- Drug of choice -- Drug effects and drug classes -- Formulating dual diagnosis problems -- Treatment -- Reciprocal assessment -- Assessment strategies.