The final, common pathway to alcohol use is motivational. A person decides consciously or
unconsciously to consume or not to consume any particular drink of alcohol according to …

Now revised and updated, this widely used text comprehensively reviews theories of
addiction to give students and professionals a multidisciplinary foundation for clinical …

Not everyone who experiments with substance use or risky behavior becomes addicted, and
many who are addicted have been able to recover. This authoritative book, now revised and …

This essential guide to the prescriptive selection of psychosocial interventions is founded on
a research? based model that sequentially considers patient dimensions, environments …

A conceptual elaboration was developed that incorporates many risk and protective factors,
and both direct and moderating (buffering) influences on drug involvement were tested …

Tobacco, alcohol, and drug use are problems for American-Indian people. We reviewed
these problems and the explanations for them and described a bicultural competence skills …

Research with the Important People instrument has shown that social support for abstinence
is related to alcohol treatment outcomes, but less work has been done on the role of network …

Working with Children of Alcoholics was originally published when the plight of children of
alcoholics was just beginning to gain widespread public attention. It was the first book to …

Several different theories have been suggested to account for drug use among Latinos,
however, no one theory adequately explains this behavior. The authors developed a model …

The social context of adolescent drinking involves the combined influence of motivational
and situational factors. This investigation assessed the usefulness of the Social Context of …