Product Description: Book by Thompson, Robert

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Product Description: A dramatic rise in the number of 'multi-problem' clients have forced community-based addiction treatment centers to answer some tough questions: How do you effectively treat record numbers of diverse and difficult clients? How do you tailor evidence-based interventions to a client's individual background involving possible incarceration, ongoing supervision, a history of trauma and a high risk of relapse? Moreover, how do practitioners work effectively within a society that stigmatizes drug users? Because the largest and fastest growing segment of the community-based addiction treatment population includes those who are mandated, this book addresses the task of 'making mandated addiction treatment work...read more

Product Description: In Inside the Methadone Clinic Industry, former methadone counselor Lisa Berry takes the reader into a never before published insider's view of the profiteering and politics rampant in the methadone clinic industry. She exposes some critical issues within the system: ...read more

Product Description: A groundbreaking, user-friendly handbook of proven-effective strategies for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.About eleven million people in North America have a substance use disorder and at least one other mental health disorder...read more

Product Description: Hamilton focuses on a population of offenders released from prison to halfway houses. Based on assessments administered prior to admission, intervention groups were established using Latent Class Analysis, which identified several classes or types of substance abusing offenders...read more

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Product Description: Psychology and Spiritual Transformation in a Substance Abuse Program: The Lazarus Project presents the results of an independent five-year study on spiritual transformation at a twelve-month residential program called the Lazarus Project—an agency that takes a Pentecostal faith-based approach to dealing with substance abuse...read more