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Motivational Enhancement Therapy manual: A clinical research guide for therapists treating individuals with alcohol abuse and dependence
The manual guides therapists in developing the five components of MET that make it ideal for personalized treatment. Behavioral therapists and social workers who care for clients with addiction problems will find the MET techniques extremely helpful, particularly if step-programs have proven unsuccessful. Miller, W. R., Zweben, A., DiClemente, C ...
Handbook of motivational counseling: Goal-based approaches to assessment and intervention with addiction and other problems.
Cox, W. M., & Klinger, E. (2011). Wiley-Blackwell ...
Clinical health psychology and primary care: Practical advice and clinical guidance for successful collaboration.
This book will promote health psychology research and clinical practice in the primary care setting for the benefit of both patients and physicians. By Robert J. Gatchel, Mark S. Oordt ...
Promoting Health Through Organizational Change
Promoting Health approaches health behavior change in a comprehensive way. By bridging the gap between patients and organizations, this book teaches students and health professionals how to productively focus their energies on improvement initiatives and how to develop the practical skills necessary for effecting change. By Harvey Skinner ...
The Handbook of Self-Determination Research
Eighteen chapters, including an overview of self-determination theory, present the current state of the research in this scientifically rigorous, yet highly relevant, approach to studying motivational problems in various life domains. University of Rochester Press ...
Counseling problem gamblers: A self-regulation manual for individual and family therapy.
This book's first chapter makes clear, problem gambling differs significantly from substance abuse, its nearest clinical relative. Not attending to these differences leads to poor results and clinical failure. This book is the one essential tool needed by clinicians treating or likely to treat problem gambling. Written by a clinician ...
Double-Jeopardy : Chronic Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders
This book provides a practical examination of the problem of substance use and abuse among persons with chronic mental disorders. Epidemiologic, diagnostic, and treatment issues are examined, as well as the problems of special populations and systems issues. By Lisa B Dixon ...
Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward
This groundbreaking book offers simple self-assessments, informative case histories, and concrete examples to help clarify each stage and process. Whether your goal is to start saving money, to stop drinking, or to end other self-defeating or addictive behaviors, this revolutionary program will help you implement positive personal change . ...
Encyclopedia of Behavior Modification and Cognitive Behavior Therapy Volume I: Adult Clinical Applications Volume II: Child Clinical Applications Volume III: Educational Applications
Miller, W. R. (2005). Motivational interviewing. In M. Hersen & J. Rosqvist. Encyclopedia of Behavior Modification and Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Vol 1. Adult Clinical Applications, pp. 383-389. Thousand Oaks, CA: ANDMiller, W. R. (2005). Motivational enhancement therapy. In M. Hersen & J. Rosqvist.. Encyclopedia of Behavior Modification and Cognitive Behavior ...
Systems of Psychotherapy: A Transtheoretical Analysis 6th Edition
Comprehensive, systematic, and balanced, SYSTEMS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY uses a wealth of clinical case illustrations to help readers understand a wide variety of psychotherapies--including psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, existential, person-centered, experiential, interpersonal, exposure, behavioral, cognitive, systemic, multicultural, and integrative. By James O. Prochaska, John C. Norcross ...
Improving Treatment Compliance: Counseling & Systems Strategies for Substance Abuse & Dual Disorders.
Your search for effective compliance-motivation strategies is over. In Improving Treatment Compliance, Dennis C. Daley, M.S.W., and Allan Zuckoff, M.A., address what may be the most important tasks in treating substance abuse and dual disorders: getting clients to attend treatment and motivating clients to work on the problems that are ...
Motivational Interviewing for Effective Classroom Management: The Classroom Check-Up
Highly accessible and user-friendly, this book focuses on helping K–12 teachers increase their use of classroom management strategies that work. It addresses motivational aspects of teacher consultation that are essential, yet often overlooked. The Classroom Check-Up is a step-by-step model for assessing teachers' organizational, instructional, and behavior management practices; helping ...
Group Treatment for Substance Abuse: A Stages-of-change Therapy Manual
This practical manual presents a 29-session treatment program designed to engage, motivate, and stimulate processes of change in clients at all stages of recovery. The program is based on the research-supported transtheoretical model of behavior change. The manual describes skills-building activities and interventions that are likely to be most effective ...
Can personality change?
"Can personality change?", is a question that has absorbed psychologists since William James first proposed that personality was "set in plaster" by early adulthood. While there is substantial evidence for both personality stability and change, the trick is to understand what changes and what does not, when to expect stability ...
Ambivalence in Psychotherapy Facilitating Readiness to Change
Why is change often so hard to accomplish, even for people who spend considerable time, money, and effort in the attempt? How can therapy clients get unstuck and work steadily toward desired goals? This book presents an integrative model of ambivalence in psychotherapy and presents effective, practical ways to recognize ...
Psychotherapy and Substance Abuse: A Practitioner’s Handbook
Unlike other resources on the treatment of substance abuse, this volume is written specifically for nonspecialists working in mental health facilities, hospitals, private practice, or other clinical settings that are not specialized chemical dependency programs.Rollnick, S., & Morgan, M. (1995). Motivational interviewing: Increasing readiness to change. In A. Washton (Eds.), ...
The handbook of health behavior change
Substantially revised to reflect current trends in the field of health behavior change, this new edition of the highly acclaimed "gold standard" text continues to provide a comprehensive overview of behavior change as it relates to public health. It has been extensively reorganized to eliminate redundancies in the earlier edition, ...
Bonica’s Management of Pain (4th Edition)
The Fourth Edition, with a brand-new editorial team, Bonica's Management of Pain will be the leading textbook and clinical reference in the field of pain medicine. An international group of the foremost experts provides comprehensive, current, clinically oriented coverage of the entire field. The contributors describe contemporary clinical practice and ...
Quantum Change: When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives.
Most of us walk through each day expecting few surprises. If we want to better ourselves or our lives, we map out a path of gradual change, perhaps in counseling or psychotherapy. Psychologists William Miller and Janet C'de Baca were longtime scholars and teachers of traditional approaches to self-improvement when ...
Integrating Spirituality Into Treatment: Resources for Practitioners
Psychology was originally concerned with mind, body and spirit. This volume re-establishes the importance of spirituality while integrating it into the mainstream of sound psychological practice. Topics covered include acceptance, forgiveness, hope, values and control.Edited by Miller, W.R. (1999). Integrating Spirituality Into Treatment ...