Understanding Why Addicts Are Not All Alike : Recognizing the Types and How Their Differences Affect Intervention and Treatment

Fisher, Gary L.

ISBN 10: 0313387079 / ISBN 13: 9780313387074

Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2011

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• Titolo: Understanding Why Addicts Are Not All Alike : Recognizing the Types and How Their Differences Affect Intervention and Treatment
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0313387079
• ISBN 13: 9780313387074
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Edizione: 1st Edition.
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

A new understanding of substance abuse explores treatment issues based on subtypes of addicts, with a special focus on antisocial personality disorder and functional addiction.

Informazioni sull?autore

Gary L. Fisher is Founder and was the first Director at the Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies at the University of Nevada, Reno. A former Professor of Counseling and Educational Psychology, he is the author of a textbook on substance abuse counseling that is now in its third edition. Fisher's career has spanned 31 years and includes work as a private practice clinician and in public schools as a psychologist. The center he directed in Reno provides drug and alcohol counselors and prevention specialists with state-of-the-art training.