Substance Use Problems, Advances in Psychotherapy - Evidence-Based Practice (Advances in Pychotherapy - Evidence Based Practice)
[...] a useful introduction to evidence-based practice in [the area of substance use problems]. --Lt Col NK Cooper FRCSEd FFOM RAMC, Consultant Occupational Physician Bielefeld ROHT, Dr JP Hames MMedPsych, MRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist DCMHTidworth in the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol. 165, 2010Valuable contribution to the field of addiction medicine. […] This volume is worthy reader-friendly book intended for therapists. It reads as an experiential distillation of practical knowledge from years of clinical and academic experience in problematic substance use, treatment, and research. The stated objective is '[to provide] trainees and professionals with a handy, concise guide for helping problem drug users … [and] improve [readers'] intuitions and clinical skills by adding an overarching understanding of drug use.' It is this writer's opinion that Dr. Earleywine has done so. --Cher Yao Chen Chen, M. D. in Psychiatric Services, Vol. 61, No. 10, Oct 2010.. this brief text will be most useful to those who have yet to acquire any experience in the field of addictionology such as students or, perhaps, even seasoned clinicians who had never taken a substance-abuse-related course [...] I found this volume to be very informative despite my 30 years of practice, and I learned a great deal from Earleywine s excellent discussion of motivational interviewing, information that I will undoubtedly be able to use with future patients. --Gregory Mavrides in PsycCRITIQUES, 2010