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Edited by G. Alan Marlatt and Gary R. VandenBos
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LIST PRICE: $39.95
MEMBER/AFFILIATE PRICE: $34.95
930 pages
ITEM #: 431600A
ISBN: 1-55798-468-9
ISBN 13: 978-1-55798-468-5
PUBLICATION DATE: October 1997
EDITION: Softcover
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The field of addictive behaviors in psychology has grown quickly in the 1990s. The scope of these addictive behaviors ranges from ill health effects and social and family problems to economic and legal troubles. Psychologists' roles within this arena include researching the effects of drug action, studying the epidemiology and etiology of drug and alcohol abuse, developing and evaluating prevention and treatment programs, and studying the effects of drug policies on human behavior.
This extensive collection of reprinted journal articles from American Psychological Association journals provides a current view of psychological research on addictive behaviors.
Book Review
In this edited, extensive, and comprehensive book, contributors from a multiplicity of psychological orientations provide a detailed consideration of widespread and burgeoning literature on addictive behaviour. The editors offer a broad selection of psychological articles on addictive behaviours in which relevant issues of dependency and addictive behaviours are highlighted. This helps to mitigate the problems of treating many areas in a cursory fashion…It is a luscious, pluralistic, scholarly book that deserves to be used as a core text at a time when attempts are being made to redefine addiction and addictive behaviour. The book is invaluable for health professionals who wish to examine the implications of different levels of explanations on addictive behaviours.
—British Journal of Medical Psychology (1999), 72, 589–594
About the Editors
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