APA Addiction Syndrome Handbook

Howard J. Shaffer, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Division on Addiction at the Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate. Dr. Shaffer is also licensed as a clinical psychologist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is certified by the National Register of Health Care Providers in Psychology. He has more than 35 years of treatment experience; during his career, he has studied and treated the full range of addiction expressions (e.g., gambling, opioid, cocaine, nicotine, shopping, computer, and sexual dependence).   Dr. Shaffer's major interests include the social perception of addiction and disease, the philosophy of science, impulse control regulation and compulsive behaviors, addiction treatment outcome, and the natural history of addictive behaviors. He writes extensively on the treatment of addictive behaviors and the nature of addiction. His most recent book, Change Your Gambling, Change Your Life: Strategies for Managing Your Gambling and Improving Your Finances, Relationships, and Health, was published in February 2012.   Additionally, he is a fellow of the APA and the former editor of the Journal of Gambling Studies and Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. His clinical and research work has been an influential force in shaping how the field views and treats addiction. During 2010, Dr. Shaffer received the APA Division 50 (Society of Addiction Psychology) Award for Outstanding Contributions to Advancing the Understanding of Addictions.   In addition to maintaining an active private practice and being a member of many scientific editorial boards and review panels, Dr. Shaffer consults internationally to a variety of organizations in business, education, human services, and government. He also has served on the National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Council, Committee on the Social and Economic Impacts of Pathological Gambling.  

Volume 1. Foundations, Influences, and Expressions of AddictionEditorial Board

About the Editor-in-Chief

Contributors

Foreword

Series Preface

Handbook Preface

Introduction

I. Background and History of Addiction

Addiction: The Genesis and Evolution of an Idea and Its Consequences
Mark J. Albanese and Howard J. Shaffer
Historical Perspectives on Addiction
Christopher R. Freed
Addiction and Nosology
Thomas A. Widiger and Gregory T. Smith
Epidemiological Dynamics of Addiction
James C. Anthony
Individual Dynamics of Addiction: Common Pathways to Change
James O. Prochaska

II. Distal and Proximal Influences on Addiction

Neurobiology of Addiction: Support for a Syndrome Model of Addiction
Jon E. Grant, Liana R. N. Schreiber, and Arit M. Harvanko
Psychological Factors and Addiction: Psychiatric Comorbidity
Ming T. Tsuang, Margo Genderson, Tyler Zink, and Michael J. Lyons
Self-Control and Addiction
Jessica L. Alquist and Roy F. Baumeister
Psychological Factors and Addiction: Personality
Marvin Zuckerman
Sociological Factors and Addiction
Alex Bennett and Andrew Golub
Interactions and Addiction
William G. Shadel and Deborah Scharf
Social Factors and the Addiction Syndrome
Ken C. Winters, Andria Botzet, Tamara Fahnhorst, Amelia Arria, Laura Garnier Dykstra, and Joshua Oliver
Proximal Influences on Addiction
Lisa M. Najavits
Developmental Perspective of Substance Use Disorder Etiology
Ralph E. Tarter, Michelle Horner, and Ty Ridenour

III. Expressions of Addiction

Universal Characteristics and Consequences of the Addiction Syndrome
Gerhard Bühringer, Anja Kräplin, and Silke Behrendt
Unique Consequences of Addiction
Bertha K. Madras
Unique Consequences of Behavioral Expressions of Addiction
Donald W. Black, John Kuzma, and Martha Shaw

Volume 2. Recovery, Prevention, and Other IssuesEditorial Board

I. Recovering From the Addiction Syndrome

Diagnosis and Assessment
James Langenbucher
Clinical Supervision and Addiction Treatment
Michael B. Madson and Bradley A. Green
Drug Substitution Treatments and Addiction Pharmacotherapies: Integrating Pharmacotherapy Into the Addiction Syndrome Treatment Paradigm
John A. Renner
Psychotherapies for Addiction: Empirically Supported Interventions for the Addiction Syndrome
Katie Witkiewitz, Gillian Steckler, Anna Gavrishova, Brett Jensen, and Megan Wilder
Addiction Syndrome: Relapse and Relapse Prevention
Sharon Hsin Hsu and G. Alan Marlatt
Natural Recovery From Addiction
Gallus Bischof, Hans-Jürgen Rumpf, and Ulrich John
What Self-Help Organizations Tell Us About the Syndrome Model of Addiction
Anna Lembke and Keith Humphreys
Screening and Brief Interventions for the Addiction Syndrome: Considering the Vulnerability of Adolescence
J. Wesley Boyd, Sion Kim Harris, and John R. Knight

II. Prevention of Addiction

Primary Prevention Models: The Essence of Drug Abuse Prevention in Schools
Lawrence M. Scheier
A Public Health Approach to Family-Centered Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Addiction: A Middle School Strategy
Gregory M. Fosco, Thomas J. Dishion, and Elizabeth A. Stormshak
The Addiction Syndrome and the College Setting: Prevention
Brian Borsari

III. Other Issues

Technology and Its Relationship to the Addiction Syndrome
Debi A. LaPlante
Special Population Segments and the Addiction Syndrome
Margarita Alegría, Anne Valentine, Huijun Li, and Grace Min
The Behavioral Economics of Reinforcement Pathologies: Novel Approaches to Addictive Disorders
Warren K. Bickel, David P. Jarmolowicz, James MacKillop, Leonard H. Epstein, Katelyn Carr, E. Terry Mueller, and Thomas J. Waltz
Driving Under the Influence: Epidemiology, Etiology, Prevention, Policy, and Treatment
Sarah E. Nelson and Daniel Tao
The Role of the Externalizing Spectrum in Understanding Addiction
Jaime Derringer and Robert F. Krueger
HIV Infection, AIDS, and Addiction
James L. Sorensen, Sandra E. Larios, and Jennifer Knapp Manuel
Addiction Syndrome and Homelessness
Judith A. Stein, Christine E. Grella, Bradley T. Conner, and Lillian Gelberg

Epilogue
Stephen A. Maisto, Tammy A. Chung, and Marketa Krenek

Index