Publisher's Synopsis
"This textbook examines a multiplicity of clinical issues associated with the role of the therapeutic alliance within the context of Integrative Addictions-Focused Psychotherapy and Counseling. These issues are associated with enhancing therapeutic outcomes and recoveries specific to patient populations manifesting the spectrum of substance abuse problems and addictive-brain disease. Each chapter in this text examines the various evidence-based ingredients in the alliance relationship that foster successful patient outcomes and recoveries. Effective and successful psychotherapy relationships develop and evolve within the basic context of human relationships. Experienced and skilled therapists and counselors generally agree that the therapeutic relationship involving alliance dynamics constitutes one of the most, or perhaps the most salient single variable, impacting virtually every facet of psychotherapy, counseling and the therapeutic
