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Abingdon Press Understanding and Counseling Persons with Alcohol Drug and Behavioral Addictions by Howard Clinebell
For more than a decade Howard Clinebells Understanding and Counseling the Alcoholic has been considered the standard work in the field. This updated edition of Clinebells earlier book expands his work on counseling to encompass the care of persons with drug addiction behavioral addictions multiple addictions and codependency. The volume includes a new annotated bibliography. This is the most comprehensive summary on understanding and counseling persons with addictions of which I am aware. The book should be part of every counselors library. Anderson Spickard M.D. Professor of Medicine Vanderbilt Internal Medicine AssociatesThis invaluably revised work on addiction is inclusive and comprehensive. Building upon seminal research in alcoholism this expansive explication of the etiology treatment and aftercare of those afflicted and affected by addictions provides a pragmatic proposal of care for all practitioners. It gleans the best from the past appropriates the research of the present and provides a vision of what effective care might be in the future.Robert H. Albers Professor of Pastoral Theology at Luther Seminary and Editor of The Journal of Ministryshow more