Substance Use Counseling: Theory and Practice, 6th Edition

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• Learning outcomes and standards to measure student results. Assignments are organized around essential learning outcomes and the CACREP standards, thereby enabling easy course alignment and reporting.
• Video- and case-based exercises to develop students' decision-making skills. Video- and case-based exercises introduce students to a broader range of clients, and therefore a broader range of presenting problems, than they will encounter in their own pre-professional clinical experiences. These exercises help students develop the techniques and decision-making skills they need to effectively work with clients before they are in a critical situation with a real client.
• Licensure quizzes to help students prepare for certification. Automatically graded, multiple-choice licensure quizzes help students prepare for certification examinations, master foundational course content, and improve their course performance.
• A video library with a wealth of observation opportunities. The video library provides a searchable database of more than 400 video clips of counseling sessions, ethical scenarios, and interviews with helpers and clients organized by course area. This allows students to see a variety of counseling theories and techniques in action, increase their observation time, and improve their analysis skills.

Additional text features and benefits include:

• A clear, accessible, practical approach that resonates with readers.
• A step-by-step guide through the process of working with substance-abuse clients that addresses how to measure the substance abuse problem and how to treat the individuals and families involved.
• Stand-alone chapters which are designed so that students and counselors can use the information as it's presented, or simply turn to the information as needed.
• UPDATED: Illustrative case studies with critical-thinking questions that provide opportunities for readers to examine and discuss a wide variety of situations. Every chapter includes new cases with additional critical-thinking exercises related to that chapter topic.
• Updated and new coverage that incorporates current practices and trends in the field includes:
• NEW: A new chapter on behavioral addictions which reflects the addition of gambling as an addiction in the DSM-5 and the prevalence of other dysfunctional behaviors in today's society.
• UPDATED: Information on the use and cost of use statistics (Chapter 1).
• NEW: Information that covers ethical issues concerning the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (Chapter 2).
• NEW: Integrated Approach as a new theoretical model (Chapter 4).
• REVISED: New assessment and diagnostic information and information on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity Act and the Affordable Care Act on substance use treatment (Chapter 6).
• NEW: Addiction Society of America diagnostic and treatment criteria and new pharmacotherapy information (Chapter 7).
• UPDATED: Claudia Black's concept of family roles is reintroduced (Chapter 9).
• UPDATED: Substantial changes to the LGBTQ section and a new section on counseling military and immigrants with substance use issues (Chapter 11).
• NEW: A new socioeconomic impact of substance use section (Chapter 12).
• UPDATED: Completely revised terminology that matches the changes in the DSM-5 criteria for assessment and diagnosis.
• UPDATED: Ethical codes are aligned to the latest revision.
• REVISED: Updated research references and statistics.

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