Essentials of Chemical Dependency Counseling, Second Edition

by P. Clayton Rivers, Anne W. Lawson, Gary W. Lawson, et al.

Book Overview

This widely used textbook for chemical dependency counseling programs has been updated and thoroughly revised. New chapters cover after care and relapse prevention as well as ethics and legal issues. The book retains its popular practical features and tools on intake, case planning, paperwork, supervision, and referrals. Group and family counseling are introduced. An instructor's manual is now available to accompany the text.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0834206838
• ISBN13: 9780834206830
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Aspen Publishers
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Best CD Counseling Book Available

This is the best text for a course in Chemical Dependency Counseling that is available. It a great deal of information that a beginning counselor needs to work in the field. It even includes a chapter on how to deal with the reluctant to recover and one on how to servive in a chemical dependency agency, most useful!

Excellent CD Training Book

Excellent for beginning CD counselors. Has a vast amount of useful information for the beginning and the seasoned counselor.

Truly essential

Covers (exhaustively) the 12 core competencies specified by the ATTC and required for certification by any state. It is excellent.

Essential guide-chemical dependency

This is an essential book for anyone in the chemical dependency field or who is treating individuals with chemical dependency. It is the best one I have read yet.