| Description |
xxviii, 386 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
The Guilford family therapy series |
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Guilford family therapy series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-376) and index. |
| Summary |
"Working with clients who abuse drugs or alcohol poses formidable challenges to the clinician. Addicted persons are often confronting multiple, complex problems, from the denial of the addiction itself, to legacies of early trauma or abuse, to histories of broken relation-ships with parents, spouses, and children. Making matters more confusing, the treatment field is too often splintered into different approaches, each with its own competing claims. This book proposes a narrative approach that builds a much-needed bridge between family therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and addictions counseling. Demonstrated are innovative, flexible ways to help clients from new understanding of what has happened in their lives, explore their relationships to drugs and alcohol, and develop new stories to guide and nourish their recovery."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Remembering Addiction -- Writing for our Lives -- A Sobriety of Literary Merit -- Letters of Invitation and Dismissal -- Bargaining: Controlled Drinking and Other Negotiated Settlements -- Telegrams from God: Reauthoring Spirituality -- Epilogues: Letting Go -- Detoxing the Theory -- Becoming 12-Step Literate -- Stories for our Times -- Trauma and Recovery -- Reality Bytes: Narrating Food Addictions -- Writing Home: Applications to Family Therapy -- Sobering Up Ophelia: Therapy with Children and Adolescents -- Narrating Our Own Stories: Therapists in Recovery -- No Conclusions -- A Less Convenient Fiction -- Postscript: Muddling Through. |
| Subject |
Substance abuse -- Patients -- Rehabilitation.
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Letter writing -- Therapeutic use.
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Substance abuse -- Treatment.
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Substance-Related Disorders -- rehabilitation.
(DNLM)D019966Q000534
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Writing. (DNLM)D014956
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Letter writing -- Therapeutic use.
(OCoLC)fst00996706
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Substance abuse -- Patients -- Rehabilitation.
(OCoLC)fst01136791
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Substance abuse -- Treatment.
(OCoLC)fst01136830
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| ISBN |
1572305665 (acid-free paper) |
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9781572305663 (acid-free paper) |
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1572308354 |
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9781572308350 |
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