Treating Alcoholism (eBook)

Help your clients find the path to overcoming their addiction

Alcoholics are one of the most difficult client groups to treat
effectively. To preserve their way of life, they may lie about
their problem or deny that one exists; that is the nature of this
profoundly powerful disease. Yet if you can guide each of your
clients through their own resistance towards the truth, not only
will you be rewarded with starting them on the road to recovery,
you will no doubt have saved their life as well. Achieving such a
victory goes to the heart of being an addiction counselor; it is
the experience of healing on a direct and tangible level.

Treating Alcoholism provides a complete road map for assessing,
diagnosing, and treating this multifaceted and tenacious illness.
Detailed clinical information on the disease accompanies
ready-to-use tools for practice. With a special emphasis on the 12
Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, the author walks you through the
first five steps of this established methodology in comprehensive
detail, showing how to easily apply each one to treatment.

Other useful resources in Treating Alcoholism include:

* A sample treatment plan

* Copies of alcohol screening tests (SMAST and CAGE
questionnaires)

* Tests for other potentially related problems such as gambling and
sexual addiction

* A sample behavioral contract for use with adolescents

* Listings of additional resources

The treatment of alcoholism is fraught with struggles and hazards
for both client and caregiver. Written in a lively tone that
resonates with the author's compassion for his own clients,
Treating Alcoholism gives you reliable, up-to-date, and
practice-tested information and materials you need to successfully
confront this deadly disease and start your clients on the path to
recovery.