Treating the Alcoholic: A Developmental Model of Recovery

ISBN-13: 9780471161639 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 376 str.

Stephanie Brown;Brown; Stephanie Brown

Opis

The book that revolutionized the psychotherapist's approach to treating alcoholism

When it was first published in 1985, Treating the Alcoholic challenged traditional psychotherapeutic approaches to alcoholism treatment. Since then, thousands of mental health professionals, using Dr. Stephanie Brown's treatment model, have found renewed faith in their ability to help alcoholic patients achieve lasting recovery.

The book begins by studying the experiences of people who have stopped drinking and provides firsthand descriptions of the inevitable emotional, physical, and psychological problems that follow. Dr. Brown then offers a model for treatment that replaces the notion of abstinence as a static state with a dynamic, process-oriented "continuum of recovery" principle. She translates the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous into psychological terms, taking particular care to explain the crucial notion of "loss of control." Perhaps the most surprising element of Dr. Brown's model is her emphasis on the triadic therapeutic relationship in which therapist, patient, and AA counselor work in partnership to ensure ongoing recovery.

Once considered a radical departure from the conventional wisdom, Treating the Alcoholic offers a now-proven approach that enables psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, alcoholism counselors, and other mental health professionals to understand the dynamics of alcoholism and make profound contributions to the recovery process.

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MODEL BUILDING.

Central Challenges to Alcoholism Treatment.

A Dynamic Model of Alcoholism Recovery.

Theoretical Perspectives.

CLINICAL APPLICATIONS.

Drinking.

Transition.

Early Recovery.

Ongoing Recovery.

Treating the Family of the Alcoholic.

AA AND PSYCHOTHERAPY.

Partnership: AA and Psychotherapy.

Appendices.

Bibliography.

Index.

O autorze

STEPHANIE BROWN, PhD, is the Director of the Addictions Institute in Menlo Park, California. She also founded and was a director of the Alcohol Clinic at Stanford University Medical Center. An internationally recognized expert on the treatment of alcoholics and their families, Dr. Brown is a licensed psychologist with nearly 25 years of clinical experience, a researcher, consultant, and frequent lecturer in the field of alcoholism. She is the author of Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics: A Developmental Perspective, also available from Wiley.