This wholly revised and updated edition of Addictions Counseling is widely read by professional counselors as well as ministers, teachers, and nurses. Topics include the counselor's role in recovery, treatment approaches, and sample treatment plans.
Written in a weirdly conversational tone, and kind of disorganized, this book was nevertheless pretty helpful as an adjunct text for my addictions/compulsions class. It promotes CBT and motivational interviewing over other kinds of therapy, which is the norm these days, but the material will be dated by next year.
Pretty A.A. heavy in it's approach from what I remember. I read this over two years ago. So, some of the details are fuzzy, I do remember for being a small book it was pretty hard to get through the content.