Revised edition of: Understanding and counseling the alcoholic through religion and psychology. Rev. and enl. ed. c1968.

"Annotated guide to further resources": pages 485-499.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-484) and index.

Who are alcoholics and drug-addicted persons? Some working definitions -- Multiple causes of addictions, multiple levels of prevention -- Understanding drug dependence -- Behavioral or process addictions: understanding and helping -- Understanding and helping those at special risk for addictions -- How religion helps low-bottom alcoholics and drug addicts -- Alcoholics anonymous: still our greatest resource -- Other paths to recovery and beyond -- Psychosocial dynamics of religious approaches to alcoholism and other drug addictions -- Understanding ethical issues in addiction and recovery -- Preparation for counseling alcoholics and other addicted persons -- Counseling for recovery and beyond: motivating and beginning the process -- Counseling for recovery and beyond: basic methods -- Counseling with families for recovery: a systems approach to codependency -- Developing effective addiction treatment and prevention programs: a strategic opportunity for religious organizations

For more than a decade, Howard Clinebell's Understanding and Counseling the Alcoholic has been considered the standard work in the field. This updated edition of Clinebell's earlier book expands his work on counseling to encompass the care of persons with drug addiction, behavioral addictions, multiple addictions, and co-dependency. The volume includes a new annotated bibliography. "This is the most comprehensive summary on understanding and counseling persons with addictions of which I am aware. The book should be part of every counselor's library." --Anderson Spickard, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt Internal Medicine Associates "This invaluably revised work on addiction is inclusive and comprehensive. Building upon seminal research in alcoholism, this expansive explication of the etiology, treatment, and after-care of those afflicted and affected by addictions provides a pragmatic proposal of care for all practitioners. It gleans the best from the past, appropriates the research of the present, and provides a vision of what effective care might be in the future.--Robert H. Albers, Professor of Pastoral Theology at Luther Seminary and Editor of The Journal of Ministry.