Addiction Counseling - by Alan Cavaiola & Amanda L Giordano & Nedeljko

•Equips the upcoming generation of counselors with crucial knowledge to skillfully treat both chemical and behavioral addictions Grounded in leading-edge evidence-based research this hands-on text applies a step-by-step approach to addictions counseling. •Author(s): Alan Cavaiola & Amanda L Giordano & Nedeljko Golubovic •426 Pages •Psychology Psychopathology
 
  About the Book 


When we began writing this textbook the United States was in the grips of an opioid epidemic in which overdose deaths have been ever-increasing and perhaps amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the opioid epidemic took center stage in the media there were also surges in cocaine and methamphetamine use and related deaths as well as increases in cannabis vaping especially among adolescents and young adults. Additionally behavioral addictions such as sex and pornography addiction internet gaming addiction and gambling continued to impact individuals and communities across the globe. History provides us with several lessons one of those lessons is that substance use trends wax and wane over decades. For example many say the Summer of Love of the late 1960's in which hallucinogens played a key role ended when amphetamines surged in popularity bringing with it a whole new set of problems and deaths. Cocaine epidemics existed in the 1920's coinciding with alcohol prohibition only to resurface again in the 1980's. Morphine addiction was prevalent following the Ci