Introduction to addictive behaviors /
By: Thombs, Dennis L.
Series: Guilford substance abuse series: Publisher: New York : Guilford Press, c2006Edition: 3rd ed.Description: xiii, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1593852789; 9781593852788:; 9781593852788.Subject(s): Substance abuse -- Etiology | Compulsive behavior | Substance abuse -- Treatment![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-299) and indexes.
The multiple conceptions of addictive behavior and professional practice today -- The disease models -- Public health and prevention approaches -- Toward an understanding of comorbidity -- Psychoanalytic formulations -- Conditioning models and approaches to contingency management -- Cognitive models -- The family system -- Social and cultural foundations -- Conditions that facilitate and inhibit change in addictive behavior.
Reviews and a critique of major contemporary perspectives are provided here. They cover alcoholism and drug dependence and throughout, applications to the helping process are emphasized. Case studies facilitate learning along with review questions.