Assessment of Addictive Behaviors, Second Edition [Hardcover]

Dennis M. Donovan PhD (Editor), G. Alan Marlatt PhD (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 18, 2005

This comprehensive clinical resource and text is grounded in cutting-edge knowledge about the biopsychosocial processes involved in addictive behaviors. Presented are research-based, eminently practical strategies for assessing the treatment needs and ongoing clinical outcomes of individuals who have problems with substance use and nonchemical addictions. From leading contributors, the book shows how to weave assessment through the entire process of care, from the initial screening to intervention, relapse prevention, and posttreatment monitoring.

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"The second edition of Assessment of Addictive Behaviors provides cogent and comprehensive coverage of what is now known to be essential in our understanding and treatment of addiction; namely, assessment of the biological, psychological, and sociocultural contributors to the addictive process. The text offers an integrated biopsychosocial orientation that is as sensitive to the latest areas of 'nontraditional' addiction (e.g., gambling and sexual risk behavior) as it is to ethnocultural issues. Practitioners, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers will find this text to be an invaluable resource in their quest to understand and evaluate the complexities of addictive processes."--Peter M. Monti, PhD, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University

"A 'must have' for practitioners and clinical researchers in the addictions field. Besides providing state-of-the-art reviews, the second edition broadens the range of addictive behaviors to include non-chemical addictive behaviors. Each chapter is self-contained, making the volume easy to read and allowing the material to be well integrated. This second edition is an outstanding accomplishment, and much needed in a field that has seen major changes over the last two decades."--Mark B. Sobell, PhD, Center for Psychological Studies, Nova Southeastern University

"This superb revision of a landmark volume breaks new ground by expanding the scope of addictive behaviors beyond substance misuse to include gambling, high-risk sexual behavior, and weight-related disorders. The book skillfully reflects conceptual and empirical developments since the first edition and highlights innovations in applied measurement, such as longitudinal methods of data collection in the natural environment. Researchers and practitioners in clinical disciplines and public health professions will find it to be an invaluable resource for advancing knowledge and developing evidence-based interventions, which rest upon and follow from sound measurement practices."--Jalie A. Tucker, PhD, MPH, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham

"The second edition of this well-known book is a wonderful contribution. Reflecting the ever-changing state of our knowledge, the editors have made major conceptual changes in the framework of this book, making this edition even more useful for educators, students, and clinicians. Current 'hot topics' in the field of addiction treatment are covered in a highly comprehensive and reader-friendly way. Given the pervasiveness of addictive behaviors, I recommend this book to all mental health professionals and educators."--S. Lala Ashenberg Straussner, DSW, CAS, New York University School of Social Work; Founding Editor, Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions

About the Author

Dennis M. Donovan, PhD, is Director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. He has published extensively in the area of substance abuse and addictive behaviors, with research funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, and Addiction. A member of a number of national professional organizations, Dr. Donovan is past president of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, and is a Fellow of Division 50 (Division on Addictions) of the American Psychological Association.

G. Alan Marlatt, PhD, until his death in 2011, was Director of the Addictive Behaviors Research Center and Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington. For over 30 years, Dr. Marlatt conducted pioneering work on understanding and preventing relapse in substance abuse treatment and was a leading proponent of the harm reduction approach to treating addictive behaviors. He was a recipient of honors including the Jellinek Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to knowledge in the field of alcohol studies, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Innovators Combating Substance Abuse Award, the Research Society on Alcoholism's Distinguished Researcher Award, and the Career/Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 480 pages
• Publisher: The Guilford Press; Second Edition edition (May 18, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593851758
• ISBN-13: 978-1593851750
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #720,581 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First-Rate Resource for the Chemical Dependency Practioner, December 14, 2006

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This review is from: Assessment of Addictive Behaviors, Second Edition (Hardcover)

Assessment of Addictive Behaviors provides cogent and comprehensive coverage of what is now known to be crucial in understanding and treatment of addiction; namely, assessment of the biological, psychological, and sociocultural contributors to the addictive process.

This work offers an integrated biopsychosocial orientation that is as sensitive to the latest areas of addictions that are on the rise (e.g., gambling and sexual risk behavior) as it is to ethnocultural issues.

Clinicians, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers will find this text to be an invaluable resource in their quest to understand and evaluate the complexities of addictive processes.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great, as far as it goes, but..., March 7, 2011

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This review is from: Assessment of Addictive Behaviors, Second Edition (Hardcover)

...it doesn't go that far. Which is a little bit surprising given the year of publication. I agree with pretty much everything Mr. Rubino had to say, but in the age of the mindfulness-based cognitive therapies =and= neuropsychology, there's a lot more that =could= have been said in 2005.

As was the case with my reading of Marlatt & Donovan's companion volume, =Relapse Prevention, Second Edition=, I came away from this book similarly disposed to believe that addiction treatment appears to be dominated by MSW's and DSW's rather than MFT's and Psy.D's. Which means a psychophilosophical =and= empirical research chains that are quite different in the progression of therapeutic technology.

Most of the listed assessments are out of the Clinical Ph.D. tradition, which is common to both "school," but the notions of how to =employ= those assessments reflects a grasp of cognitive behavioral therapies that's about vintage 1990-95.

If one is looking merely for a collection of addiction-specific assessment tools, this =will= be more than satisfactory. But if one was really trying to understand addiction as a collection of traits with well-understood etiological underpinnings and common -- if multiple and diverse -- routes to recovery, I can't recommend either of these two books.

But I can recommend the chapters on gambling addiction in =both= of them as starting points into the beginnings of Howard Shaffer's notions that all forms of addiction operate on a single biopsychosocial platform. And that said platform is one of unprocessed developmental deficits + familial and cultural damage to inherent cognitive capacities + excitotoxicity in the autonomic cortisol as well as mesolimbic dopamine chains.

For those two articles alone, one might do oneself a favor and bag used copies of both books... because as far down the road to a unified field theory of addiction as Shaffer was when he published his own books in the '80s, he hadn't yet come to some of the suggestions made here.

Now, all that said, if one understands the common psychodynamic, social learning, core-belief-to-current-appraisal cognitive, and neurobiological operations found in =all= addictions, both of these books can be quite edifying. Because they will fill in a lot of the blank spots about addictions that specialists in typically co-morbid diagnoses like cluster B personality disorders may not know about. For =that=, these two books are terrific.

But the failure among all but one of the authors of the nearly 20 articles in both books published c. 2005 to understand addiction recovery as the development of skills for mindfulness, critical thinking, distress tolerance and emotion regulation of the upshots of neuroplastic remodeling dismays me.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, the current industry standard for addiction recovery isn't even in the index here, although it is discussed in one of the articles in each of the two books. And neither Acceptance & Commitment nor Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy are mentioned at all. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Oh, well.