Introduction to addictive behaviors /
Dennis L. Thombs.
- Third edition.
- New York : Guilford Press, c2006.
- xiii, 322 pages : illustration. ; 24 cm.
- The Guilford substance abuse series .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-299) and indexes.
The multiple conceptions of addictive behavior and professional practice today -- The disease models -- Public health and prevention approaches -- Toward an understanding of comorbidity -- Psychoanalytic formulations -- Conditioning models and approaches to contingency management -- Cognitive models -- The family system -- Social and cultural foundations -- Conditions that facilitate and inhibit change in addictive behavior.