Psychotherapy, Psychological Treatments and the Addictions

by Helen Edwards

Book Overview

Treatment of an ever increasing variety of addictive behaviors owes much to a wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches that have tended to roll continuously in and out of fashion. Over recent years, an initiative has been established to appraise critically the use of psychotherapy in all areas of psychiatry. This work serves as a timely review of psychological treatments in the addictions field and provides a rare combination of expertise both from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521556759
• ISBN13: 9780521556750
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"