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Changing Substance Abuse and Criminal Behavior Through Therapeutic Relationships
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Changing Substance Abuse and Criminal Behavior Through Therapeutic Relationships [electronic resource] / by Debra H. Benveniste.
ISBN
9781137530394
Publication
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2016.
Physical Description
XI, 220 p. 1 illus. in color : online resource.
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Summary
This book approaches the treatment process from a new and yet old perspective. Eleven men who successfully desisted from substance abuse and offending were interviewed to determine how their significant therapeutic relationships facilitated this life change. Data is integrated with a new psychodynamic framework, relational analytic theory, which focuses clinical attention on the qualities and processes of the therapeutic relationship. A therapy model is developed which addresses how to attain and maintain therapeutic engagement, treat client symptoms, and utilize therapeutic conflict to develop client capacity for internal conflict and personal agency, functions critical to resolving addictive behavior. Societal and cultural obstacles to treatment are addressed including group stigmatisation, a lack of funding, and our current manual and group-based treatment protocols.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2016
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Men's Stories
Chapter 3. Theoretical Context
Chapter 4. Pathways to Desistance
Chapter 5. Diagnostic Considerations
Chapter 6. Developing a Practice Theory
Chapter 7. Relational Therapy and the 'Real World'.
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