Can I read Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems (The New Paradigm for Treating Drug and Alcohol Problems) on EtoBox?

Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems (The New Paradigm for Treating Drug and Alcohol Problems) by Andrew Tatarsky; with forward [sic] by Alan Marlatt is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems (The New Paradigm for Treating Drug and Alcohol Problems) about?

This ground-breaking volume provides readers with both an overview of harm reduction therapy and a series of ten case studies, treated by different therapists, that vividly illustrate this treatment approach with a wide variety of clients. Harm reduction is a framework for helping drug and alcohol users who cannot or will not stop completely—the majority of users—reduce the harmful consequences of use. Harm reduction accepts that abstinence may be the best outcome for many but relaxes the emphasis on abstinence as the only acceptable goal and criterion of success. Instead, smaller incremental changes in the direction of reduced harmfulness of drug use are accepted. This book will show how these simple changes in emphasis and expectation have dramatic implications for improving the effectiveness of psychotherapy in many ways. From the Foreword by Alan Marlatt, Ph.D.: “This ground-breaking volume provides readers with both an overview of harm reduction therapy and a series of ten case studies, treated by different therapists, that vividly illustrate this treatment approach with a wide variety of clients. In his introduction, Andrew Tatarsky describes harm reduction as a new paradigm

Author

Andrew Tatarsky; with forward [sic] by Alan Marlatt

Publisher

Jason Aronson, Inc.

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781461628705

Subjects

Psychology, Medical, Social_sciences