William R. Miller & Alyssa A. Forcehimes 
Treating Addiction 
A Guide for Professionals

This widely respected text and practitioner guide, now revised and expanded, provides a roadmap for effective clinical practice with clients with substance use disorders. Specialists and nonspecialists alike benefit from the authors’ expert guidance for planning treatment and selecting from a menu of evidence-based treatment methods. Assessment and intervention strategies are described in detail, and the importance of the therapeutic relationship is emphasized throughout. Lauded for its clarity and accessibility, the text includes engaging case examples, up-to-date knowledge about specific substances, personal reflections from the authors, application exercises, reflection questions, and end-of-chapter bulleted key points.

 

New to This Edition

*Chapters on additional treatment approaches: mindfulness, contingency management, and ways to work with concerned significant others.

*Chapters on overcoming treatment roadblocks and implementing evidence-based treatments with integrity.

*Covers the new four-process framework for motivational interviewing, diagnostic changes in DSM-5, and advances in pharmacotherapy.

*Updated throughout with current research and clinical recommendations.

Table of Content

I. An Invitation to Addiction Treatment

1. Why Treat Addiction?

2. What Is Addiction?

3. How Do Drugs Work?

II. A Context for Addiction Treatment

4. Engaging

5. Screening, Evaluation, and Diagnosis

6. Withdrawal Management and Health Care Needs

7. Individualizing Treatment

8. Case Management

III. A Menu of Evidence-Based Options in Treating Addiction

9. Brief Interventions

10. Motivational Interviewing

11. Behavioral Coping Skills

12. Meditation and Mindfulness

13. Contingency Management

14. A Community Reinforcement Approach

15. Working with Significant Others

16. Strengthening Relationships

17. Mutual Help Groups

18. Medications in Treatment

IV. Professional Issues

19. Stuff That Comes Up

20. Treating Co-Occurring Conditions

21. Facilitating Maintenance

22. Working with Groups

23. Addressing the Spiritual Side

24. Professional Ethics

25. Implementing Evidence-Based Practice

References

Index

 

About the author

William R. Miller, Ph D, is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico. He introduced motivational interviewing in a 1983 article and in the first edition of
Motivational Interviewing (1991), coauthored with Stephen Rollnick. Dr. Miller’s research has focused particularly on the treatment and prevention of addictions and more broadly on the psychology of change. He is a recipient of two career achievement awards from the American Psychological Association, the international Jellinek Memorial Award, and an Innovators Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, among many other honors. His publications include 65 books and over 400 articles and chapters. His website is
https://williamrmiller.net.
 
Alyssa A. Forcehimes, Ph D, is President of The Change Companies and Train for Change. Prior to joining these organizations, she was on the faculty of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. Her research focuses on processes of motivation for change and on effective methods for disseminating and teaching evidence-based behavioral treatments in real-world settings. Dr. Forcehimes works in addiction, mental health, and health care settings to develop, implement, and evaluate behavior change practices.
 
Allen Zweben, Ph D, is Professor and Associate Dean at the Columbia University School of Social Work. His research and publications have focused primarily on innovative assessment and treatment approaches for substance use problems. Dr. Zweben has been a principal investigator on numerous behavioral and medication trials, including two landmark studies funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: Project MATCH, a patient–treatment matching study, and the COMBINE study, a project examining the efficacy of combining pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy interventions for alcohol problems.