Main description:

This authoritative book presents a groundbreaking evidence-based approach to conducting therapy groups for persons with substance use disorders. The approach integrates cognitive-behavioral, motivational interviewing, and relapse prevention techniques, while capitalizing on the power of group processes. Clinicians are provided with a detailed intervention framework and clear-cut strategies for helping clients to set and meet their own treatment goals. More than two dozen ready-to-use reproducible assessment tools, handouts, homework exercises, and session outlines are supplied in a convenient large-size format.

Contents:

I. Rationale, Research, and Assessment 1. Guided Self-Change Treatment and Its Successful Extension to Group Therapy 2. Overview of Motivational Interviewing Strategies and Techniques 3. Assessment: A Running Start for Treatment II. Guided Self-Change: A Motivational Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Individual and Group Therapy 4. Guided Self-Change Treatment in an Individual Format 5. Integrating Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive-Behavioral Techniques into Group Therapy III. Conducting and Managing Groups: Pregroup Planning, Group Cohesion, and Difficult Situations and Clients 6. Building Group Cohesion: Music Comes from the Group 7. Managing Groups: Structural Issues 8. Managing Difficult Clients in Groups 9. The Way Ahead Appendices A. AUDIT Questionnaire
B. Drug use Questionnaire (DAST-10)
C. Drug Use History Questionnaire
D. Brief Situational Confidence Questionnaire (BSCQ)