Addiction Recovery Tools: A Practical Handbook

by Robert Holman Coombs

Overview

Addiction Recovery Tools: A Practical Handbook presents verified recovery tools with a methodical "when and how" approach for each available tool. Including both Western and Eastern methods, the book catalogs the motivational, medical-pharmaceutical, cognitive-behavioral, psychosocial, and holistic tools accessible in a wide variety of settings and programs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761920670
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/12/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

As a young man, Bob served two years in Virginia and North Carolina as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Afterwards he continued his studies at the University of Utah, where he majored in sociology and philosophy, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1958. There he met the love of his life, Carol Jean Cook, who was Bob’s right arm throughout his distinguished career at UCLA. Bob and Carol Jean were married in May of 1958. Bob then served in the Army and earned a master's degree from the University of Utah in 1959, followed by a Ph.D. in sociology from Washington State University in 1964. He and Carol Jean lived in Washington, Iowa (Iowa State University), and North Carolina (Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University), before settling in the Los Angeles area, where they raised their seven children.

In 1970 Bob joined the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA and the Neuropsychiatric Institute, now the Jane and Terry Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior. For 35 years he conducted research, published articles and books, served in administrative and service capacities (including the IRB Committee), taught classes, and provided marriage, family, and grief counseling.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: MOTIVATIONAL TOOLS
Motivational Intervention - Ed Storti
The Only Failure Is the Failure to Act
Motivational Interviewing - David B Rosengren and Christopher C Wagner
Dancing, Not Wrestling
Computer-Assisted Interventions - Christopher P Rice
Mouse as Co-Therapist
PART TWO: MEDICAL-PHARMACEUTICAL TOOLS
Detoxification - David E Smith and Richard Seymour
Opening the Window of Opportunity to Recovery
Medications - Douglas Ziedonis and Jonathan Krejci
One Tool in the Toolbox
Disease Orientation - Norman S Miller
Taking Away Blame and Shame
Drug Testing - Tom Mieczkowski
A Review of Drug Tests in Clinical Settings
PART THREE: COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL TOOLS
Recovery Contracts - G Douglas Talbott and Linda R Crosby
Seven Key Elements
Contingency-Management - Alan J Budney, Stacey C Sigmon and Stephen T Higgins
Using Science to Motivate Change
Cue Exposure Treatment - Cynthia A Conklin and Stephen T Tiffany
New Thoughts about an Old Therapy
Affect-Regulation Coping-Skills Training - Raymond L Scott, Marc F Kern and Robert H Coombs
Managing Moods without Drugs
PART FOUR: PSYCHOSOCIAL TOOLS
Lifestyle Planning and Monitoring - Fred Zackon
Readiness, Guidance and Growth
Individual Therapy - Joan E Zweben
Accomplishing the Tasks of Recovery
Group Therapy - Arnold M Washton
A Clinician's Guide to Doing What Works
Peer Support - Linda Farris Kurtz
Key to Maintaining Recovery
Family Treatment - Joyce Schmid and Stephanie Brown
Stage-Appropriate Psychotherapy for the Addicted Family
PART FIVE: HOLISTIC TOOLS
Nutritional Counseling - Joseph D Beasley
How to Get the Big High
Mediation - Carol A Snarr, Patricia A Norris and Steven L Fahrion
The Path to Recovery through Inner Wisdom
Spirituality Enhancement - Robert J Kus
From Distilled Spirits to Instilled Spirit
Acupuncture - Michael O Smith and Kathryn P White
A Venerable Nonverbal Therapy
PART SIX: Us ING RECOVERY TOOLS IN VARIOUS SETTINGS AND PROGRAMS
Harm Reduction Programs - Arthur W Blume et al
Progess Rather Than Perfection
Matching Clients with Recovery Tools - Reid Hester and Theresa Moyers
Finding the Right Keys to Unlock the Door