Working With Drug and Alcohol Users: A Guide to Providing Understanding, Assessment and Support

by Tony White

Working with Drug and Alcohol Users provides an accessible guide to substance use and working with substance users. Using transactional analysis theory, the author explains why some people use substances, exploring different personality types, and covers the basic components of drug counseling. The book then outlines different counseling techniques used to treat and manage substance users, using transactional analysis models. These include motivational interviewing, harm reduction counseling, drug use ambivalence work and relapse process work. A chapter on teenage drug users is also included. Case examples feature throughout to demonstrate the ideas in practice. This will be an essential guide for all those working with drug and alcohol users, including counselors, psychotherapists, psychologists and support workers.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Tony White is an Australian psychotherapist, specialized in Transactional Analysis, and author of several publications on psychoterapeutic theory and practice. He has supervised many psychologists for registration exams with individual and group supervision and supervising people to be supervisors. He originally trained as a sociologist in his early university years. He worked in a prison program to identify suicidal inmates. He worked with the Association of Relatives and Friends of the Mentally Ill (ARAFMI), who have schizophrenia, manic-depression, psychotic depression, and borderline personality. He also spent 4 years working in a drug rehabilitation centre.

Reviews

[Ettienne De Beer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the way Tony has laid out this book, easy reading and packed with information. A great read with good concepts and practical applications.