Introduction to Addictive Behaviors
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Introduction to Addictive Behaviors

Dennis L. Thombs, Cynthia J. Osborn

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Introduction to Addictive Behaviors

Dennis L. Thombs, Cynthia J. Osborn

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Now revised and updated, this widely used text comprehensively reviews theories of addiction to give students and professionals a multidisciplinary foundation for clinical practice. It explores the causes and mechanisms of substance and behavioral addictions, as well as implications for helping people recover. Providing a science-based perspective, the text emphasizes the importance of using treatment and prevention strategies that are grounded in evidence. Thoroughly updated chapters address disease models; public health approaches; understanding and treating comorbidity; psychoanalytic, behavioral, cognitive, and family systems models; sociocultural approaches; behavioral addiction; and motivational models. Student-friendly features include end-of-chapter summaries and review questions. New to This Edition
*Updated throughout with current research and clinical advances.
*Discussions of cutting-edge topics: genetics of addiction, addiction stigma, and the opioid epidemic.
*New and revised clinical vignettes and review questions.

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Publisher
The Guilford Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781462539260
Edition
5
Topic
Psicología
Subtopic
Adicción en psicología

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