Treating Patients With Alcohol and Other Drug Problems

Robert D. Margolis, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and has specialized in adolescent addiction and substance abuse since 1977. He is the founder and executive director of Solutions Intensive Outpatient Program, a treatment program for adolescents in Roswell, Georgia. Dr. Margolis was director of psychological services at the Ridgeview Institute from 1984 to 1997.   Dr. Margolis received his undergraduate degree from Duke University and his doctorate in clinical psychology from Georgia State University. He completed an APA-approved full-time predoctoral clinical psychology internship from Duke University's Department of Psychiatry/Division of Medical Psychology. He holds the APA College Certificate of Proficiency in the Treatment of Alcohol and Other Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders.   He is a fellow in APA's Division 50 (Addictions). He has served as an APA consultant on addiction-related matters and has appeared in numerous television documentaries on alcohol and drug abuse problems.   Dr. Margolis has authored more than 15 articles and several book chapters on substance abuse and dependence. In 1997, he coauthored the first edition of this book with Joan E. Zweben.   Joan E. Zweben, PhD, is the founder and executive director of the 14th Street Clinic and Medical Group (1979–2007) and the East Bay Community Recovery Project (1989–present) in Oakland, California. The East Bay Community Recovery Project has been providing medical and psychosocial services to alcohol and other drug-dependent patients and their families and is a training site for graduate students and interns in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through these organizations, she has collaborated with researchers locally and nationally since 1981 and has been on the national steering committee of the National Institute on Drug Abuse's Clinical Trials Network since 2002.   Dr. Zweben received her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan. She is licensed in California, holds the APA College Certificate of Proficiency in the Treatment of Alcohol and Other Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders, and is a fellow of APA's Division 50 (Addictions).   Dr. Zweben is the author of four books and more than 60 articles and book chapters and is the editor of 15 monographs on treating addiction. She is active in training professionals from a variety of disciplines who work in mental health or addiction treatment settings. She is also health sciences clinical professor of psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.  

Preface

Introduction



Psychologists in the Substance Abuse Field
Models and Theories of Addiction
Assessment of Substance Abuse and Dependence
Determining Appropriate Treatment
Individual Psychotherapy
Family Therapy
Group Therapy and Self-Help Groups in Addiction Treatment
Relapse Prevention

References

Index

About the Authors