Is Addiction About Avoiding Pain or Seeking Reward? Diverse psychological therapies, spanning the spectrum of psychodynamic to cognitive behavioural, have tended to account for addiction as a manifestation of either…
Introduction and Overview This chapter begins with comments on structuring a session and an overview of techniques aimed at cultivating resilience among those seeking help for addictive disorders. The premise…
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Relapse Prevention Strategies from a Neurocognitive Perspective Automatic or implicit tendencies, specifically the acquisitive responses at the core of addiction, take time to develop but are slower to decay. Moreover,…
The Reciprocal Relationship Between Mood and Addiction The CHANGE framework emphasizes the importance of addressing unregulated substance use as a prerequisite to addressing emotional disorder. This requires little justification, as…
17Addictions Addiction to substances affects millions of people and is, according to the World Health Organization (2010), the third leading risk factor for early death and disabilities. Mental health clinicians…
13Youth Obsessive–CompulsiveDisorder (OCD) In Chapter 12, we learned that CBGT for children with anxiety and depression is an effective form of treatment. This chapter, with its focus on youth obsessive–compulsive…
11Later Life Depression and Anxiety This chapter resumes the discussion in Chapter 7 on the viability of transdiagnostic groups. It does so by outlining how depression and anxiety often coexist…
5CBGT for Depression: Cognitive Interventions and Relapse Prevention The previous Chapter 4 explained Aaron Beck’s model of depression and its use in the psychoeducational and behavioral part of CBGT for…
