Addiction and Change: How Addictions Develop and Addicted People Recover [DELUXE EDITION] (Hardcover)

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"...a significant addition to the literature on addiction....This very useful book should be a staple of any addictions collection. A current and comprehensive bibliography adds to its value. Summing Up: Essential. Studentes, researchers, and practitioners."--Choice

"I really enjoyed this book because it thoroughly explains the stages of addiction and recovery. It is practical and I think that clients will benefit from it. TTM challenges clients with tasks and goals within each stage. Since addictive behaviors, specifically those related to drugs and alcohol, are a major public health problem, and new models of addiction/recovery are welcomed with open arms. This book is definitely a breath of fresh air in helping to deal with addicted individuals....3 Stars."--Doody's Electronic Journal
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"The transtheoretical model has fundamentally changed how Western professionals think about and address addictive behavior. In this new and original work, Dr. DiClemente extends this influential model to describe the development as well as the resolution of problems with drugs, sex, eating, and money. He thereby offers a comprehensive and fruitful framework to stimulate new professional thought on addiction policy, prevention, research, and treatment."--William R. Miller, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico

"This book provides a refreshingly practical guide to help you navigate your way through competing theories, data, and dogma on how addiction can best be prevented and treated. Building on his previous work, Dr. DiClemente now helps us understand not only how people recover, but also how they develop addiction. His application of the transtheoretical model to complete the cycle of change is both intellectually satisfying and useful in planning and evaluating preventive interventions. Clinicians will be better able to explain to clients and families how addiction develops, and empower clients to change with dignity and compassion. Students using this book as a text in psychology courses or graduate studies in addiction will appreciate how the transtheoretical structure makes sense of the multiplicity of theories and approaches in the field. Researchers will enjoy the challenge to reexamine their models in light of Dr. DiClemente's synthesis of data. This book has deepened my understanding and appreciation of the transtheoretical model, and is sure to have a similar impact on others as well."--David Mee-Lee, MD, Co-Chair, Quality Improvement Council, American Society of Addiction Medicine

"This volume combines cutting-edge research, theory, and practice to provide a panoramic perspective on the acquisition and cessation of addictions. Based on the transtheoretical model, the book offers an innovative, integrative approach to understanding addiction and change. It is a welcome contribution for those who teach and those who treat addictions"--James O. Prochaska, PhD, Cancer Prevention Research Center, University of Rhode Island

"DiClemente articulates an important paradigm for understanding addictive behavior. This is the most complete description of the transtheoretical model of intentional behavior change to date. The volume's exploration of the interacting dimensions of change in both the evolution and resolution of addictive behaviors offers highly useful implications for researchers as well as clinicians."--Sandra A. Brown, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego

"Prochaska and DiClemente's stages-of-change model is currently a widespread conceptual framework for understanding the process of addiction recovery and has greatly influenced clinical practice, program development, and research in the field of addiction over the past decade....In his new book...DiClemente broadens the scope of the stages of change, applying the model to the actual process of becoming addicted....In using the stages to explain how addiction develops, DiClemente introduces the possibility of improving--and defining more succinctly--addiction prevention efforts....DiClemente has succeeded in writing a book that will 'assist professionals to help individuals move out of the path leading to addiction and to help those already addicted along the road to recovery,' his stated ultimate goal. Easy to read, based on sound clinical research, and critical of singular and simple explanations of addiction, this is a book in which DiClemente admirably expands on the promise of his earlier work."--Psychiatric Services

"The logical, eloquent and accessible style used in the book allows the reader to meet the author. He engages us with the logic of his thinking, his interpretation of his own and others' research and his application of this to case studies, which are used throughout the book."--Addiction

"The greatest advance and profit of the book are that it provides an integrating approach to the theory of addiction roots, as well as that of interventions....The work is destined to clinical practitioners, social workers, counselors, prevention specialists and policy-makers. It could also be used as a classroom textbook for undergraduate and graduate-level courses."--Studia Psychologica [NOTE TO PROMO WRITERS: this quote is not preferred - unknown journal]

"...provides a comprehensive understanding of both the stages of change and processes of change which underpin his model of intentional behaviour change....provides the depth and detail which is well suited to the academic studying change theory....this text would be well placed in the library of advanced practitioners in the addictions field....this book provides the most comprehensive coverage of the TTM yet published. The book also provides sufficient original information, particularly in relation to the application of the TTM to the development of addictions to warrant the inclusion of this text in the library of many academics, researchers and clinicians."--Drug and Alcohol Review

"...a significant addition to the literature on addiction....This very useful book should be a staple of any addictions collection. A current and comprehensive bibliography adds to its value. Summing Up: Essential. Studentes, researchers, and practitioners."--Choice

"I really enjoyed this book because it thoroughly explains the stages of addiction and recovery. It is practical and I think that clients will benefit from it. TTM challenges clients with tasks and goals within each stage. Since addictive behaviors, specifically those related to drugs and alcohol, are a major public health problem, and new models of addiction/recovery are welcomed with open arms. This book is definitely a breath of fresh air in helping to deal with addicted individuals....3 Stars."--Doody's Electronic Journal

 

"The author offers a panoramic view of the continuum of addictive behavior change, including problematic behaviors such as substance abuse, tobacco, eating, gambling, and so on....[What distinguishes this book is how]...the author applies [TTM] to the addiction process (the road to addiction)....This book could be of good assistance to clinicians by helping (through the understanding of the process in which their clients are involved) them with individuals who must free themselves of the path leading to addiction and to help those already addicted along the road to recovery. I also think that it can aid researchers, professors, and students in the field of addiction in understanding the addiction process by proposing an integrative view of the entire process. It can also spur on their thought on the entire continuum (addiction policy, prevention, and treatment)."--Criminal Justice Review

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 318 pages
• Publisher: The Guilford Press; 1 edition (April 2, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572300574
• ISBN-13: 978-1572300576
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #895,279 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How people become addicted; how they recover., December 4, 2006

By	Rocco B. Rubino "Rocco R." (Ohio) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Addiction and Change: How Addictions Develop and Addicted People Recover (The Guilford Substance Abuse Series) (Paperback)

This book, based upon the Prochaska and Norcross model of "stages of change" is a vital resource for the chemical dependency/abuse counselor, or anyone else who works with this population.

The authors clearly delineate how a person becomes addicted (using the stages of change model- except in reverse), then moving on to the process of recovery.

Contrary to an earlier review, I did not find this resource to be "verbose;" rather I thought the presentation was cogent and crisp.

Scholarly yet practical without pedantry this is an informative piece of literature in a field where one needs all of the resources one can get.

Highly recommended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Addiction and Change , August 25, 2008

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This review is from: Addiction and Change: How Addictions Develop and Addicted People Recover (The Guilford Substance Abuse Series) (Paperback)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Book Review, May 29, 2009

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