Overcoming Problematic Alcohol and Drug Use: A Guide for Beginning the Change Process
Author: Jeremy M Linton
Overcoming Problematic Alcohol and Drug Use is a workbook for use with clients in treatment, informed by the most current research and literature in the substance abuse field. The book introduces a six-session curriculum for treating persons with substance abuse issues and can be used as a self-help resource for persons with substance abuse issues, or as a practice guide for human service professionals.
The book provides up-to-date information and interventions for treatment, as well as questions for thought, examples, and session assignments. Readers are encouraged to put the information they learn into active practice. The combination of research-based approaches makes this workbook unique and easily adaptable for individual use or as a curriculum for treatment.
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Self-Awareness Deficits in Psychiatric Patients: Assessment and Treatment
Author: Bernard D Beitman
Presents a "neurobiology of self-awareness"—how people with disorders understand themselves from a mind-body perspective.This book addresses major psychiatric disorders of self-awareness including schizophrenia, alcoholism, Asperger's Disorder, autism, and ADHD. The authors present pragmatic interventions for improving patients' daily functioning and a review of the neuronal circuitry involved with these disorders. Each chapter includes diagnostic manifestations, neurobiology, case vignettes, and treatment plans.
Author Biography: Bernard D. Beitman and Jyotsna Nair live in Columbia, Missouri.
Table of Contents:
| 1 | Why self-awareness? | 3 |
| 2 | Neural circuits for self-awareness : evolutionary origins and implementation in the human brain | 24 |
| 3 | Brian patterns of self-awareness | 112 |
| 4 | Disorders of insight, self-awareness, and attribution in Schizophrenia | 129 |
| 5 | Knowing me, knowing you : self-awareness in Asperger's and Austism | 159 |
| 6 | Alcoholic denial : self-awareness and beyond | 184 |
| 7 | Reflective function, mentalization, and borderline personality disorder | 213 |
| 8 | Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder : a disorder of self-awareness | 229 |
| 9 | Anosognosia and denial of illness following stroke | 255 |
| 10 | Conversion disorder : a disorder of somatic self-awareness | 280 |
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