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Becoming an Addictions Counselor: A Comprehensive Text, Third Edition

Author(s): Peter L. Myers, PhD, Essex County College
Norman R. Salt, MA, CPS, New Jersey Department of Health
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  • ISBN-13: 9781449673000
  • Product With Access Code    364 pages      © 2013
Price: International Sales $95.95 US List
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Becoming an Addictions Counselor, Third Edition provides evidence-based findings, cutting-edge treatment techniques, and a focus on critical thinking to show future counselors how to respond to clients' needs rather than impose "cookie-cutter" routines. 
 
Topics explored in depth include:
• Mentally ill chemical abusers
• Individual, group, and family counseling skills
• Clinical treatment issues 

Each chapter takes an experiential learning approach to these topics and encourages readers to practice individual and group counseling skills through structured activities and exercises.
 
With thorough discussions on ethics, treatment planning, and case management, this text prepares readers to become ethical, competent counselors.

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Chapter  1  Introduction to Addictions Treatment
Chapter  2  Individual Counseling Skills
Chapter  3  Facilitating Motivation for Recovery
Chapter  4  Facilitating Recovery
Chapter  5  Group Treatment
Chapter  6  Family
Chapter  7  Case Management: From Screening to Discharge
Chapter  8  Ethics, Confidentiality, and Professional Responsibility
Chapter  9  Co-Occurring Disorders
Chapter  10  Cultural and Other Special Populations
Chapter  11  Thinking About Addiction Treatment
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Peter L. Myers, PhD-Essex County College

Peter L. Myers, PhD, is director of the Addictions Counselor Training Program at Essex County College and editor of the Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse. His published works include "21st Century Research on Drugs and Ethnicity: Studies Supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse" and "Becoming an Addictions Counselor: A Comprehensive Text." Myers was formerly a professor of addiction studies and president of the International Coalition for Addiction Studies Education. He was recently appointed to the National Addiction Studies Accreditation Commission and is the recipient of a 2011 Presidential Award from NAADAC, the Association of Addiction Professionals.
 

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Norman R. Salt, MA, CPS-New Jersey Department of Health

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  • “Finally! A whole chapter devoted to ethics in an addiction counselor’s textbook! I have searched high and low and this is the first textbook I have found that deals with such a critical issue needed for a counselor to survive in the substance abuse career field. This is a great strength and a long overdue one in a textbook. Among other strengths is the excellent chapter on family systems which is one of the most comprehensive ones I have read in many years dealing directly with substance abuse issues in a cultural and community context.”



    -Frank Norton, PhD, ABPP, Bowie State University

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