Perspectives on addiction : an integrative treatment model with clinical case studies / Margaret Fetting.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cultural statistics and stories -- Sociocultural aspects -- Definitions -- Twelve profiles of addiction -- Eleven classes of psychoactive substances -- Ten models of treatment -- Self-medication, psychoanalytic, and psychodynamic theories -- Stephanie Brown and an integrative treatment model -- Integrative treatment model : the drinking and using stage -- Integrative treatment model : the transition stage -- Integrative treatment model : the early recovery stage -- Integrative treatment model : the ongoing recovery stage.

Perspectives on Addiction presents a comprehensive, rigorous, and reflective overview of the complex and controversial field of chemical dependency. It is designed for students and clinicians who come in contact with and treat individuals and families struggling with the causes adn consequences of substance use disorders. The user-friendly approach to serious content encourages active participation in the learning experience and is designed to have a personal, professional, educational, adn treatment impact. Readers will develop a novel appreciation for a human desire that pleasures, confounds, and destroys.