Marcantonio Spada - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Problem Drinking: A Practitioner’s Guide

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Problem Drinking

This book serves as a concise and practical guide on the application of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to problem drinking. Divided into five chapters it provides:

a detailed account of the cognitive and behavioural processes involved in the development and maintenance of problem drinking

in-depth coverage of assessment and case formulation and their role in planning and sequencing CBT interventions

concise and practical illustrations of the application of CBT interventions in preparing, implementing and maintaining change.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Problem Drinking also includes diaries and worksheets for use with the client making it essential reading for all mental health practitioners in the field of alcohol misuse, as well as a useful resource for those in training.

The appendices of this book contain worksheets that can be downloaded free of charge to purchasers of the print version. Please visit the website www.cbtarena.com/9780415408769 to find out more about this facility.

Marcantonio Spada is Professor of Psychological Therapies at London South Bank University in partnership with North East London NHS Foundation Trust. An expert in cognitive behavioural theory and therapy for problem drinking, he is a practising clinician with extensive experience of working with problem drinkers.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Problem Drinking

A Practitioners Guide

MARCANTONIO SPADA

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 2010 by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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2010 Marcantonio Spada

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Spada, Marcantonio.
Cognitive behavioural therapy for problem drinking: a practitioners
guide/Marcantonio Spada.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-415-40876-9 (pbk.)
1. Alcoholism-Treatment. 2. Cognitive therapy. I. Title.
RC565.S64 2010
616.861dc22
2010008828

ISBN 0-203-84104-2 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN: 978-0-415-40876-9 (pbk only)

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