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.

Reviews

"Nevertheless, I would recommend this book to practitioners in the alcohol and other drugs, and gambling treatment field, and to postgraduate students in health sciences." (Drug And Alcohol Review, 1 May 2015

"It is refreshing to read a book of quality that is not only relevant to the UK but is also authored by a UK clinical practitioner." (DrugLink, 1 September 2013)

Book Information
ISBN 9780470669952
Author Frank Ryan
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 299g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 154mm * 12mm