Anger Management Based Alcohol Treatment: Integrated Therapy For Anger And Alcohol Use Disorder

Anger Management-Based Alcohol Treatment: An Integrated Therapy for Anger and Alcohol Use Disorder provides mental health professionals with specialized clinical techniques and strategies for assessing and treating comorbid alcoholism and anger emotions. This hands-on guide empowers clinicians in teaching anger management skills to drinkers with alcohol use disorder, helping these patients learn cognitive and relaxation skills that reduce anger and disconnect the anger-alcohol linkage. Case studies and vignettes based on clinical experience are laced throughout the book, along with therapeutic techniques that can be put into immediate practice. The book also features effective ways clients can self-monitor their craving and anger emotions, ethnicity considerations in anger and drinking, and how to adapt anger management therapy to group therapy settings. Provides clinicians with easily-integrated anger management techniques that have been proven to treat alcohol use disorder Summarizes the empirical literature on drinking and anger Presents a clear framework for assessing the anger-alcohol linkage Discusses effective methods for client self-monitoring of cravings Includes case studies on anger management-based alcohol therapy Looks at the use of anger management therapy in treating other addictions, such as smoking and gambling

• | Author: Kimberly Walitzer, Jerry Deffenbacher, Molly Rath
• | Publisher: Academic Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 07, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 324 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0128127090
• | ISBN-13: 9780128127094