Addiction Arena

Mental Health and Substance Use: Dual Diagnosis

Mental Health and Substance Use: Dual Diagnosis is a new journal being launched at the NHS' Meeting the Challenge conference.

This one day conference explores the issues facing clients, professional and services in the management of co-existing problems.

Mental Health and Substance Use: dual diagnosis is a quality, standard-setting publication that adopts a holistic and eclectic stance, providing a forum for the discussion and dissemination around subjects of innovative, developing, and proven practice.

find out more about Mental Health and Substance Use: Dual Diagnosis

Drug and Alcohol Review special issue - drug prevention for students

This special issue on drug education and other prevention programmes for students explores many of the issues of interest to the field at the moment and the papers offer a range of evidence and insights as to how the approach can be improved on a number of different levels.

Articles in this special issue range from the theoretical to the empirical in their approach and from national policy to classroom practice in their focus.

"Reading these papers has given me fresh insight in the possibilities of drug education and other student-focused prevention programmes. I hope they prove as stimulating for others with an interest in this field." - Richard Midford, Guest Editor of this special issue.

find out more about this special issue of Drug and Alcohol Review

The Education-Drug Use Connection

How Successes and Failures in School Relate to Adolescent Smoking, Drinking, Drug Use, and Delinquency

Does success in school protect teenagers from drug use? Does drug use impair scholastic success?

This book tackles a key issue in adolescent development and health - the education-drug use connection. The authors examine the links and likely causal connections between educational experiences, delinquent behavior, and adolescent use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine.

This book is intended for anyone who deals with education and/or substance use, including educational, developmental, and social psychologists; sociologists; epidemiologists; educators; and policy makers. The analysis of panel survey data, using a variety of techniques, will also appeal to survey methodologists and students.

more information about The Education-Drug Use Connection / pre-order online

UPDATE - Author Jerald G. Bachman talks about this book in an interview on Science Daily

New Free Shipping Levels for UK, US and Canadian orders

We've lowered the amount you have to spend to get free shipping for orders in the UK and we've introduced a brand new free shipping threshold for customers in the US and Canada.

From now on, UK customers only need to spend £20 to qualify for free shipping (reduced from our previous post-free threshold of £30).

And US and Canadian customers can now also get free shipping on their orders by spending $35 (USD) or more.

Please note: these free shipping thresholds only apply to online orders placed through this website using our standard shipping service, not our express shipping service or for orders placed by other methods.

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Motivational Dialogue

Preparing Addiction Professionals for Motivational Interviewing Practice

Motivational Dialogue explores the application of motivational interviewing in various contexts, with a view to enhancing understanding and improving practice.

The book describes the research and practice of motivational interviewing as a stand alone intervention, as an adjunct to further treatment, and as a style of delivery of social and behavioural interventions. The contributors draw on their expertise and experience as researchers, teachers and practitioners to encourage the reader to appreciate the broad applicability of motivational dialogue.

The book is divided into five sections, which cover:

• Reflections and a model
• The Evidence Base
• Learning and Practice
• Four Studies of Motivational Therapy in Practice
• Motivational Dialogue and Stepped Care

Motivational Dialogue will be of great interest to psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and anyone in the social and health care professions who is involved in assisting people to challenge addictive behaviours.

more information about Motivational Dialogue / order online

New Addiction Arena

Welcome to our new Addiction arena - we hope you the find new features and improvements exciting and useful.

We hope you find this arena very easy to navigate around, because we know that you want to find the information you're after quickly, whether it's the 'buy now' link for a particular book, the date & venue of a forthcoming conference, or the online version of a specific academic journal article.

We've added a number of new features to address your changing demands and requirements.

We hope we've made this arena invaluable for you, and we'd encourage you to add this site to your favourites, post it to del.icio.us (if you're a del.icio.us user), blog about it (then let us know), or recommend it to your friends and colleagues.

Here's a very brief overview of some of the new features:

RSS Feeds of latest titles

We've created an RSS Feed of our newest Addiction books so that you can subscribe to receive news of our latest titles. RSS feeds are an increasingly popular way to check for news and updates from all the websites you regularly visit without having to visit them all individually.

We've created a page to explain more about RSS, which will also help you to subscribe using a wide range of freely available RSS Feed Readers.

You can also use our RSS feed to display an automatically-updated list of our latest Addiction titles on your blog or website (let us know if you do this because we'd be interested to see).

Conferences

We've launched our Addiction listings with an interactive map (see screenshot, right), allowing you to see, at a glance, all of the events that are coming up near you.

You can zoom in for a closer look (close enough, in some cases, to get street directions!) and click on the map markers for conference details and a link to the conference's home page.

Addiction-related Blog Posts, Country-specific book listings, and more

There's a wealth of other new features, including the latest Blog Posts from around the world which have been tagged as being about Addiction, and we've also made sure that all the books you see are available in your country by automatically identifying which country you're in (on the rare occasions when we might get it wrong you can manually override it on the User Preferences page).

We're very excited about the changes we've made to this arena, and as we mentioned earlier, we'll be updating all of our arenas over the coming months. But we don't want to rest on our laurels, so we'll be looking for new ways to improve the arenas and new features to offer you.

If you have any suggestions or comments then please don't hesitate to let us know.