Cognitive Therapy for Addiction: Motivation and Change
Dec 2012 · Sold by John Wiley & Sons
Ebook
240
Pages
About this ebook
An innovative new approach to addiction treatment that pairs cognitive behavioural therapy with cognitive neuroscience, to directly target the core mechanisms of addiction.
- Offers a focus on addiction that is lacking in existing cognitive therapy accounts
- Utilizes various approaches, including mindfulness, 12-step facilitation, cognitive bias modification, motivational enhancement and goal-setting and, to combat common road blocks on the road to addiction recovery
- Uses neuroscientific findings to explain how willpower becomes compromised-and how it can be effectively utilized in the clinical arena
About the author
Frank Ryan is a consultant clinical psychologist in Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust in London, UK. An Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College and an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, he is a practicing cognitive therapist and an active trainer, lecturer and researcher.
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