Family Recovery and Substance Abuse: A Twelve-Step Guide for Treatment

by Joseph K. Nowinski

Book Overview

This book details a structured, research-based approach to working with the significant others of substance abusers. The approach, called Unilateral Family Therapy′, offers partners and family members hope not only of improving their own mental health, but also teaches how to restructure their relationship to the substance abuser in ways which could enhance the substance abuser′s motivation to change and lead him or her to treatment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761911111
• ISBN13: 9780761911111
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"