Foundations of Addiction Counseling (2nd Edition)

by David Capuzzi, Mark D. Stauffer

A practical collection of tools and strategies for prospective addictions counselors that includes a solid foundation of research, theory, and history. Practical and comprehensive, Foundations of Addiction Counseling explores an array of techniques and skills that a new practitioner will need in the real world while providing a thorough review of the research, theory, and history of addiction counseling. With chapters written by expert scholars, this text covers many topics in-depth often ignored by other comparable books, such as professional issues in addictions counseling, the assessment of client strengths, gender issues in substance abuse, working in rehabilitation centers, and working with clients with disabilities. The second edition of this unique text offers prospective counselors the tools and strategies they will need for working with general and special populations, including assessment tools, strategies for outpatient and inpatient treatment, information about maintenance and relapse prevention, and counseling strategies for couples, families, children, adolescents, college students, and recovering addicts. The revised edition includes expanded discussions on a number of topics, new case studies, and completely updated resources and web references.

Genres: Textbooks, Counselling, Psychology, School, Grad School, Reference, Nonfiction

448 pages, Paperback

Published January 16, 2011

Reviews

[Robin Rife · Rating 5 out of 5]

This text is well laid out and easy to read. I will continue use it as a resource for information.

[Grace Eidman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great, easy to read, and informative on the field as a whole! One of the better textbooks out there

[Ross · Rating 5 out of 5]

Useful resource.

[Shelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent resource for counselors/counseling students.

[Conrad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good information, but the amount assigned to me each week in class made retention difficult.

[Carter Wisdom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very solid textbook.

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was required to read this for school, and they gave a quiz on every chapter. But for that, I might not have read the whole thing. As a text, it was readable and fairly accessible and had some good points. Many of my classmates were excited about the additional resources listed at the ends of the chapters -- not something I have paid much attention to, but will keep in mind in case I end up needing some. The final paragraphs of the book ended with this information, which is disheartening at best: when the U.S. undertook the War on Drugs, it was estimated that between 3% and 5% of the population had a substance use disorder (the current term for drug abuse problem); today, after billions of dollars and millions of people incarcerated and dead, between 3% and 5% of the population have a substance use disorder. That isn't even a 0 sum game, since the total population has increased in that time, so the number of people with substance use disorder is higher than it used to be.

[Tom Pepper · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very poorly written—grammatical errors in just about every paragraph. No organization—almost as if they wrote whatever came to mind, without even an outline. Frequently makes claims that are not at all supported by the sources they cite. One of the worst textbooks I’ve encountered in 30 years—not the absolute worst, but close.

[Scott Whitney · Rating 4 out of 5]

It has been a good and educational class. The information in the book is relatively clear and laid out in a good manner. I did enjoy the different authors who wrote the different chapters and felt as if I was getting educated by a whole board of professors and not just one.

[Karla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very informative. I was pleased to see that it was a very technical book, yet was reader friendly. I did not find it to drag out or to be boring. I would recommend it to anyone interested in addictions counseling.

[Jason Lewis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excelllent content. At times poorly executed with a number of spelling and grammatical errors.

[Nicole (all_bookedup) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Textbook for school.