Addiction, Assessment, and Treatment with Adolescents, Adults, and Families

Addiction, Assessment, and Treatment with Adolescents, Adults, and Families examines addiction topics ranging from prevention to relapse, offering effective intervention techniques and assessment tools to ensure delivery of the best possible service to clients who represent a variety of populations and mental health issues. Leading addiction researchers address new developments in theory, methodology, treatment, and assessment, concerning counselor beliefs, contingency management, group treatment, rapid assessment instruments, behavioral couples therapy (BCT), family-based intervention, motivational interviewing, and 12-step programs and faith-based recovery.

Hilarski, M. Carolyn

- Beliefs About Confrontation Among Substance Abuse Counselors: Are They Consistent with the Evidence? (Thomas Dale Davis) - Twelve-Step Programs and Faith-Based Recovery: Research Controversies, Provider Perspectives, and Practice Implications (Kathleen M. Tangenberg) - Implementation of Contingency Management Substance Abuse Treatment in Community Settings (Soo Mi Jang and Susan L. Schoppelrey) - Motivational Interviewing and Behavior Change: How Can We Know How It Works? (Deborah Nahom) - Iatrogenic Effects of Group Treatment on Adolescents with Conduct and Substance Use Problems: A Review of the Literature and a Presentation of a Model (Mark J. Macgowan and Eric F. Wagner) - Empirical and Theoretical Support for the Inclusion of Non-Abstinence-Based Perspectives in Prevention Services for Substance Using Adolescents (Samuel A. MacMaster, Lori K. Holleran, and Katherine Chaffin) - Detecting Serious Mental Illness Among Substance Abusers: Use of the K6 Screening Scale (James A. Swartz and Arthur J. Lurigio) - Evaluating Rapid Assessment Instruments' Psychometric Error in a Practice Setting: Use of Receiver Operating Characteristics Analysis (Timothy B. Conley) - Substance Use in a Statewide Population of Incarcerated Juvenile Offenders (Michael G. Vaughn, Matthew O. Howard, Kirk A. Foster, Michael K. Dayton, and Jonathan L. Zelner) - Primary Caregiver and Child Attachment: An Important Assessment Issue for Substance Use in African American and Hispanic Youth (Carolyn Hilarski) - Defining Relapse from a Harm Reduction Perspective (Katie Witkiewitz) - Family-Based Treatment Models Targeting Substance Use and High-Risk Behaviors Among Adolescents: A Review (Sanna J. Thompson, Elizabeth C. Pomeroy, and Kelly Gober) - Behavioral Couples Therapy for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse: Rationale, Methods, Findings, and Future Directions (Keith Klostermann, William Fals-Stewart, Christie Gorman, Cheryl Kennedy, and Cynthia Stappenbeck) - Index - Reference Notes Included