
Substance Abuse
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in Clinician's Quick Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy
This chapter discusses adaptations for using interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) with substance abuse, the context of sobriety as a role transition, and the use of IPT as an adjunctive ...
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Students with Parents Involved in Substance Abuse or Dependence
Celeste M. Malone, Tierra T. Ellis, and DeLon Isom
in Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students: A Guide for School-Based Professionals (2 edn)
Substance use affects more than the individual user; all those who have relationships with the person using are impacted and suffer the consequences of substance use. Parental substance use ...
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Substance Use Disorders Among Veterans
Amee B. Patel, Sandra B. Morissette, Lori K. Holleran Steiker, and Audrey M. Sorrells
in Handbook of Psychosocial Interventions for Veterans and Service Members: A Guide for the Non-Military Mental Health Clinician
Substance use among veterans is a significant and costly public health concern. In addition to contributing to the development of substance use disorders, excessive substance use can ...
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Substance Abuse in Latina/o Adolescents
Elvia Y. Valencia and Ignacio David Acevedo-Polakovich
in Cultural Considerations in Latino American Mental Health
Chapter 5 identifies substance-use prevalence and risk factors among Latina/o adolescents and compares them to those of other cultural groups and among Latina/o groups, in the interest of ...
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Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
Claudia Szobot
in Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know (2 ed.)
This chapter reviews psychosocial and pharmacological approaches to the treatment of substance abuse in adolescents. Effective early intervention is crucial because it can play a preventive ...
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Comorbid Conditions, Emotional Distress, and Dysfunctional Cognitions
Jan Willer
in Could it be Adult ADHD?: A Clinician's Guide to Recognition, Assessment, and Treatment
At least 70% of adults with ADHD have at least one comorbid disorder. Substance abuse is common. Why are people with ADHD more likely to have anxiety and depression? Perhaps there is shared ...
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Substance Use Disorders among Military Personnel
Joseph Westermeyer and Nathan A. Kimbrel
in Military Psychologists' Desk Reference
Alcohol and drug problems occur at relatively high rates among military personnel and have the potential to negatively impact military readiness. This chapter discusses the prevalence, ...
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Behavioral Couples Therapy for Substance-Abusing Parents
Michelle L. Kelley, Keith Klostermann, and James M. Henson
in Parenting and Substance Abuse: Developmental Approaches to Intervention
This chapter describes Behavioral Couples Therapy (BCT) as an intervention strategy for children who reside with one or more substance-abusing parents for part or all of their childhood and ...
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Children Exposed to Parental Substance Abuse who are Placed in Foster Care: An Attachment Perspective
Mirjam Kalland and Jari Sinkkonen
in Parenting and Substance Abuse: Developmental Approaches to Intervention
This chapter examines, from an attachment perspective, the risk and protective factors associated with placing children of substance-abusing parents in foster care. It first reviews ...
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Fathers Too! Building Parent Interventions for Substance-Abusing Men
Thomas J. Mcmahon
in Parenting and Substance Abuse: Developmental Approaches to Intervention
This chapter describes Fathers Too!, a semi-structured, gender-specific, individual psychotherapy for substance-abusing fathers. Fathers Too! is designed to improve father-child ...
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Emerging Issues in the Emerging Adult Substance Use Field
Douglas C. Smith
in Emerging Adults and Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Developmental Considerations and Innovative Approaches
Nearly two decades of research exist that use emerging adulthood as an organizing developmental construct to describe individuals ages 18–29. Yet, much remains to be learned regarding how ...
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Substance-Abusing Fathers a Developmental Perspective
Thomas J. McMahon
in Parenting and Substance Abuse: Developmental Approaches to Intervention
This chapter examines parenting by substance-abusing fathers from a developmental perspective. It first outlines a developmental perspective on fathering in the context of chronic substance ...
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Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition
This chapter includes an overview of the use of IPT for patients with substance abuse (e.g., alcohol, opiates, cocaine, and nicotine) and addictive disorders. The available data do not ...
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Moderators and Mediators of Treatments for Youth With Substance Abuse
Lynn Hernandez, Andrea Lavigne, Mark Wood, and Reinout W. Wiers
in Moderators and Mediators of Youth Treatment Outcomes
Adolescence is a period when substance use problems often emerge. Accordingly, efficacious, empirically valdated interventions, which can arrest the development of substance abuse by ...
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Recognizing Consequences of Your Substance Use
Dennis C. Daley and G. Alan Marlatt
in Overcoming Your Alcohol or Drug Problem: Effective Recovery Strategies, Workbook (2 ed.)
Chapter 3 explores recognizing consequences of substance use. The goals of this chapter are To understand the consequences of your substance use and its effect on those close to you, and to ...
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Compendium of Empirically Supported Treatments
Dianne L. Chambless and E. David Klonsky
in Psychologists' Desk Reference (3 ed.)
Chapter 31 details a compendium of empirically supported treatments and therapies for adults with anxiety and stress, chemical abuse and dependence, depression, health problems, marital ...
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Preventing Alcohol and Substance Abuse
Timothy A. Cavell, Susan T. Ennett, and Barbara T. Meehan
in Handbook of Psychological Services for Children and Adolescents
This chapter discusses prevention of the abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD), and describes several prevention programs that have undergone empirical scrutiny and that hold ...
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Thematic Analysis
Stephanie Riger and Rannveig Sigurvinsdottir
in Handbook of Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods
This chapter concerns thematic analysis, a technique for analyzing qualitative data that involves looking for patterns of meaning that go beyond counting words or phrases. Underlying themes ...
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Hidden ADHD: Presenting Problems and Comorbidity
Jan Willer
in Could it be Adult ADHD?: A Clinician's Guide to Recognition, Assessment, and Treatment
Hidden ADHD is common. Most adults with ADHD—between 70% and 90%—have psychiatric comorbidity. When ADHD is comorbid with another disorder, it is often unrecognized and untreated. Certain ...
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Treating Impaired Psychotherapists and “Wounded Healers”
Gary R. Schoener
in The Psychotherapist's Own Psychotherapy: Patient and Clinician Perspectives
This chapter reviews the concept of professional impairment in the psychotherapy professions. It is a concept that has undergone some changes and reformulation over the past two decades. ...
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