A Concise Guide to Opioid Addiction for Counselors

By Kevin Alderson and Samuel T. Gladding

Book Overview

This brief, evidence-based guide is ideal for busy mental health professionals helping clients with opioid use disorders (OUDs). It examines the devastating global impact caused by opioids and is replete with information and resources that can be immediately applied to addiction work. The authors' pragmatic, strengths-based approach to treatment is based on a collaborative counselor-client working alliance to achieve client readiness for change, moderation, and abstinence. Topics discussed include current research on risk and protective factors, OUD assessment and diagnosis, the ethical and legal issues particular to addiction work, medication-assisted treatment, physical and psychological interventions for pain management, and the necessity of interdisciplinary care.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556204043
• ISBN13: 9781556204043
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"