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This volume synthesizes the latest theory and research on the process of addictive behavior change, helping the clinician more effectively conceptualize and address the needs of particular clients. It offers concrete guidance for tailoring interventions to clients with varying levels of motivation or readiness to change, describing what works - and what doesn't work - at different points in the recovery process. All aspects of addictions treatment are covered, from assessment to intervention and relapse management. Practical recommendations are provided for applying the stages of change model to clinical work with individuals, groups, couples and families, and for addressing the special needs of women and dually diagnosed clients. Ideal for practicing clinicians, the book is also an invaluable text for graduate-level courses.

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It is a welcomed edition to any addiction studies classroom, and if not used as a main text it certainly needs to be listed as a creditable reference in a course syllabus. Addiction studies students need to know this book exists....a rock solid book. It deserves to be utilized in the best and most up-to-date addiction education programs. -- Journal of Teaching in the Addictions <br>.,. a superb text that provides an excellent foundation for evidence-based practices for those clinicians who work in both administrative and clinical capacities with this challenging population. I highly recommend this book to researchers, teachers, and clinicians as an exceptionally useful tool. Given the current focus on outcomes studies and best practices, this book is timely in its concise descriptions of the stages of change and how to synthesize them with evidence-based treatment interventions. -- Clinical Social Work Journal <br> This book is an especially important addition to this growing literature. The transtheoretical model is enormously popular with practitioners and researchers in the addictions field. Although a number of excellent chapters have been written describing the model (e.g., DiClemente and Prochaska, 1998), clinicians who wish to apply the model to a range of patient populations have lacked needed guidance. Readers now have an authoritative source on the clinical application of the transtheoretical model. -- Journal of Studies on Alcohol <br>.,. this book is more than just a 'how-to-do' manual--readers will find it to be more of a 'how to think' book. This is the first clinical text to provide a comprehensive coverage of the various assessment and treatment options that arematched to the each of the five stages of change: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance....The book is written clearly and provides a valuable sourcebook of diagnostic and intervention strategies. I was impressed with the updated material on clinical assessment methods and the breadth of matched treatment options, ranging from motivational enhancement to relapse prevention. The authors do a good job of referring to key research studies in their review of treatment effectiveness issues (e.g. Project MATCH)....I recommend this book as a useful, practical and well-written guide for both students and professionals involved in the treatment of alcohol and other drug problems. Therapists will appreciate the many clinical case studies presented throughout the text. -- Addiction <br> This book is unique in the field of chemical-dependency assessment and treatment since it is the first comprehensive application of Prochaska and DiClemente's therapeutic stages-of-change model to problems of substance abuse and treatment....Recommended for any library collecting literature on substance-abuse treatment for the use of upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. -- Choice <br>

The stages of change model has become enormously popular among treatment providers over the last decade.... There are many other books and articles in which the stages of change model has assumed a prominent place, but none has achieved what this book succeeds in doing. It presents in clear and accessible language a coherent integration of the model with the entire process of treatment for substance use disorders, from assessment and treatment planning to the management of relapse. Along the way, many key concerns in treatment are usefully reconceptualized and much of the accumulated wisdom in the field is viewed in a fresh and invigorating light. - Nick Heather, PhD, Newcastle City Health NHS Trust and University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK. Therapeutic strategies designed to increase motivation to change have gained a great deal of popularity in the substance abuse literature. However, few books have been able to combine academic rigor with practical strategies for frontline clinical work. This book accomplishes the task. From first-rate researchers, this is a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the use of the stages of change model in alcohol and drug abuse treatment. One of the things that sets the book apart is its insightful coverage of couple and group approaches, along with individual treatment. For clinicians new to the stages of change model, as well as those experienced in the field, this is an invaluable contribution. - Roger D. Weiss, MD, Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital The transtheoretical model is enormously popular with practitioners and researchers in the addictions field....Readers now have an authoritative source on the clinical application of the transtheoretical model. - Journal of Studies on Alcohol (review by Jon Morgenstern)

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Gerard J. Connors, PhD, is Director of the Research Institute on Addictions at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Coauthor of a textbook on drug use and abuse, Dr. Connors has published over 100 scientific articles and book chapters in the area of alcoholism and addictive behaviors. Dennis M. Donovan, PhD, is Director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute at the University of Washington, where he is also Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology. His more than 120 publications include Assessment of Addictive Behaviors (coedited with G. Alan Marlatt) and Changing Addictive Behavior (coedited with Jalie A. Tucker and G. Alan Marlatt). Carlo C. DiClemente, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. DiClemente is the codeveloper of the stages-of-change model with James Prochaska. He has authored numerous scientific articles, books, and book chapters examining the process of human behavior change and the application of this model in a variety of problem behaviors. His recent publications include Group Treatment for Substance Abuse: A Stages-of-Change Therapy Manual (coauthored with Mary Marden Velasquez et al.).

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