Before It's Too Late: Working With Substance Abuse in the Family (A Norton Professional Book)

By David C. Tradway and David C. Treadway

Book Overview

This book shows therapists how to tackle the dilemma of the presenting problem not being the 'real' problem and presents a variety of step-by-step models for working with the substance-abusing family.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393700682
• ISBN13: 9780393700688
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Buy this book, before it's too late!

This book provides clinicians with the best model for working with couples, families, and adolescents suffering alcohol and drug problems that I've encountered, by one of family therapy's best authors and therapists. Treadway has been teaching us how to negotiate the dangers and joys of working with families under the influence for over 20 years. His tour de force Before It's Too Late on working with substance abuse in the family has been on the back list at Norton since 1989. Put another way, this book has been a staple of our professional and literary diet of family therapy and addiction for more than 11 years! A remarkable achievement in and of itself. The book is written with Treadway's trademark sense of humor and deep respect for his clients.Because the author takes time to locate his own thoughts, feelings and experience in the work, including his struggle with his own mother's alcoholism, I often find myself recommending this "must read" for therapists to my clients. --Jonathan Diamond ...