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Designed for clinical utility, this volume presents an approach to engaging addicted people in treatment and helping them maintain abstinence. Adapted to an office treatment setting and to 12-step participation, network therapy utilizes family and peer support in conjunction with individual treatment. The book outlines a comprehensive model of addiction, describes how network therapy works, and provides detailed instructions for practice. Clinicians learn to work collaboratively with patients and network members to establish cohesive therapeutic bonds, dispel the stigma of addiction, and help avoid the pitfalls of denial and relapse to substance use. This expanded edition includes an empirical validation from research supported ny the National Institute on Drug Abuse: guidelines for conducting network therapy training, including role-play exercises for students; and reproducible patient education handouts.

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The expanded edition of Network Therapy for Alcohol and Drug Abuse provides new evidence for the advance of network therapy in just a few short years. The book establishes the importance of the natural circle of significant others in the treatment of chemical dependency. --George De Leon, PhD, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., Center for Therapeutic Community Research, New York City <br> Treating addiction is difficult, and available options are often insufficient. I have found network therapy to be a key ingredient in our research project on naltrexone and in my clinical work. The approach is very helpful in improving retention and outcome, and patients and network members alike have found the added support critical. This expanded edition is lucidly written and provides readily accessible methodology, useful case vignettes, and requisite patient handouts. It will be useful for students as well as experienced clinicians. --Herbert D. Kleber, MD, Professor of P

This edition is full of sensible advice to practitioners and teachers....an invaluable text for those who wish to develop their skills in this eminently practical approach to treatment. -- Alcohol & Alcoholism <br> The importance of extending treatment beyond the individual is core to the book, and Galanter's model for doing so is appealing and well articulated. There are rich clinical examples, and it is a pleasure to read about a master clinician in action. The clinical wisdom in the book is invaluable, and his techniques are novel and appealing....provides a compelling and appealing clinical model that incorporates a broad network into the therapy and is catholic in the use of a range of therapeutic techniques. The book is a pleasure to read, and the clinical examples provide a rich context for understanding the therapy....the clinical reader will learn much from the writings of this thoughtful and experienced psychiatrist. -- Addiction <br>

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Marc Galanter, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at New York University Medical School; Research Scientist at its World Health Organization Collaborating Center; and Director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse at NYU and Bellevue Hospital Center. He is also Director of the national Center for Medical Fellowships in Alcoholism and Drug Abuse and Editor of Substance Abuse, the journal of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse.

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