Chemical Dependency Treatment

Innovative Group Approaches

L Donald Mcvinney

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780789003546
• eBook ISBN: 9781317844723
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Addiction in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

The most revolutionary, humanistic guide to counteracting chemical dependency on the market, Chemical Dependency Treatment: Innovative Group Approaches presents group models of intervention with substance using and chemically dependent clients across the continuum of care. In it, you'll find strategies that will help you engineer your own effective group interventions at different stages of the treatment process. Taking into account the ravaging nature of addiction and the rampant spread of AIDS, this book gives you the sensitivity and skills necessary to seek out the earliest possible healing for your beloved family and friends. In Chemical Dependency Treatment, you'll build upon existing literature on the subject of group work within the chemical dependency field. In doing so, you'll glean your own individualized expertise from this excellent collection of essays and qualify yourself to orchestrate compassionate and holistic chemical dependency interventions. You'll get detailed information about:

• early community-based intervention for injected drug use (IDU)
• the transition from inpatient to outpatient status for chemically dependent clients
• psychoeducational help for chemically dependent gays and lesbians
• strategies for hospital-based early recovery groups for HIV-infected inner-city clients
• treatment during the early phases of outpatient therapy
• outpatient group psychotherapy with cluster-B personality disordered men
• multiple oppression in group psychotherapyIf you know someone who is chemically dependent, or if you're interested in becoming more informed about what your family or community can do to quell the epidemic of chemical dependency, Chemical Dependency Treatment will put you on the sure pathway to a more caring, more immediate group intervention.

Index

AA (Alcoholics Anonymous), 30-31, 71, 73

Abstinence

harm-reduction objective of, 10

HIV management and, 59

Action addictive behavior change stage, 8

Addiction

heterosexism connection to, 41-42

sociocultural explanations for, 39

ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), 83-84

Affective support, 76

Affirmation, client motivation built upon, 15, 17, 18

African Americans. See Multiple oppression group psychotherapy model, for HIV clients

Alcohol abuse

changing perspectives on, 39-40

interventions for. See Inpatient psychoeducational group model, for gay men and lesbian women; Transition group model of outpatient care

personality disorders and, 82-83

See also Substance abuse

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 30-31, 71, 73

Alexithymia, 76

Ambivalence

of contemplation stage of addictive behavior change, 7, 14, 18

vs. denial, 15

positive perceptions of substance use and, 14-15

Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence paradigm, 16

Antisocial personality disorder

ADHD and, 83-84

belief systems of, 88, 89

group threat of, 91-92

over vs. underdeveloped strategies of, 92-93

risk-taking behavior and, 83

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), 83-84

Behavioral support, 76, 77

Borderline personality disorder, 55

belief systems of, 88, 89

group anxiety of, 91

over vs. underdeveloped strategies of, 92-93

Case studies, of multiple oppression layers, 97-99

of African Americans, 98-99, 106-107, 108, 111-113, 114-115

of Latinos, 97-98, 104-105, 105-106, 110, 114

societal gender role discrimination, 106-107

Cognitive dissonance, group therapy technique of, 16-17

Cognitive support, 76

Cognitive-behavioral intervention strategies, 2

self-efficacy perception and, 26

Community-based agency setting model, for HIV/AIDS clients

action addictive behavior change stage and, 8

active abusers and, 1-2

conclusions regarding, 18-19

contemplation addictive behavior change stage and, 7, 14-15, 18

harm reduction model program development and, 9-10

client-centered principle of, 11

principles of, 10

social context deficiency of, 11-12

introduction to, 5-6

maintenance addicti...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• About the Author
• Introduction
• Early Intervention with Active Drug and Alcohol Users in Community-Based Settings
• The Transition Group: Linking Clients with Alcohol Problems to Outpatient Care
• An Inpatient Psychoeducational Group Model for Gay Men and Lesbians with Alcohol and Drug Abuse Problems
• A Hospital-Based Early Recovery Group Program for HIV-infected Inner-City Clients: Engagement Strategies
• Group Treatment with Substance Abusing Clients: A Model of Treatment During the Early Phases of Outpatient Group Therapy
• Outpatient Group Psychotherapy with Chemically Dependent and Cluster-B Personality Disordered Male Clients
• The Model of Multiple Oppression in Group Psychotherapy with HIV-infected Injecting Drug Users
• Index