| Contents |
Conceptualization of addictive behavior and the need for informed practice -- The disease models -- Public health and prevention approaches -- Understanding the co-occurrence of substance use and psychiatric conditions -- Psychoanalytic formulations -- Conditioning models and approaches to contingency management -- Cognitive models -- The family system -- Social and cultural foundations -- The controversial science of behavioral addiction -- Promoting motivation and autonomy for personal change -- Linking theory, evidence, and practice. |
| Abstract |
"Now revised and updated, this widely used text comprehensively reviews theories of addiction to give students and professionals a multidisciplinary foundation for clinical practice. It explores the causes and mechanisms of substance and behavioral addictions, as well as implications for helping people recover. Providing a science-based perspective, the text emphasizes the importance of using treatment and prevention strategies that are grounded in evidence. Thoroughly updated chapters address disease models; public health approaches; understanding and treating comorbidity; psychoanalytic, behavioral, cognitive and family systems models; sociocultural approaches; behavioral addiction; and motivational models. Student-friendly features include end-of-chapter summaries and review questions"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from electronic title page (R2 Digital Library, May 31, 2019). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Thombs, Dennis L. Introduction to addictive behaviors. Fifth edition. New York : The Guilford Press, [2019] 9781462539222 |
| ISBN | 9781462539253 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1462539254 (electronic bk.) |
