Foundations of Addictions Counseling

by David Capuzzi, Mark D. Stauffer

This comprehensive text offers prospective counselors the tools and strategies they will need for working with general and special populations, including assessment tools, strategies for outpatient and inpatient treatment, information about maintenance and relapse prevention, and counseling strategies for couples, families, children and adolescents, and recovering addicts.

Genres: Textbooks, Psychology, Counselling, School, Grad School, Reference, Nonfiction

448 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Robin Rife · Rating 5 out of 5]

This text is well laid out and easy to read. I will continue use it as a resource for information.

[Grace Eidman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great, easy to read, and informative on the field as a whole! One of the better textbooks out there

[Ross · Rating 5 out of 5]

Useful resource.

[Shelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent resource for counselors/counseling students.

[Conrad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good information, but the amount assigned to me each week in class made retention difficult.

[Carter Wisdom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very solid textbook.

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was required to read this for school, and they gave a quiz on every chapter. But for that, I might not have read the whole thing. As a text, it was readable and fairly accessible and had some good points. Many of my classmates were excited about the additional resources listed at the ends of the chapters -- not something I have paid much attention to, but will keep in mind in case I end up needing some. The final paragraphs of the book ended with this information, which is disheartening at best: when the U.S. undertook the War on Drugs, it was estimated that between 3% and 5% of the population had a substance use disorder (the current term for drug abuse problem); today, after billions of dollars and millions of people incarcerated and dead, between 3% and 5% of the population have a substance use disorder. That isn't even a 0 sum game, since the total population has increased in that time, so the number of people with substance use disorder is higher than it used to be.

[Tom Pepper · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very poorly written—grammatical errors in just about every paragraph. No organization—almost as if they wrote whatever came to mind, without even an outline. Frequently makes claims that are not at all supported by the sources they cite. One of the worst textbooks I’ve encountered in 30 years—not the absolute worst, but close.

[Scott Whitney · Rating 4 out of 5]

It has been a good and educational class. The information in the book is relatively clear and laid out in a good manner. I did enjoy the different authors who wrote the different chapters and felt as if I was getting educated by a whole board of professors and not just one.

[Karla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very informative. I was pleased to see that it was a very technical book, yet was reader friendly. I did not find it to drag out or to be boring. I would recommend it to anyone interested in addictions counseling.

[Jason Lewis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excelllent content. At times poorly executed with a number of spelling and grammatical errors.

[Nicole (all_bookedup) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Textbook for school.