Assessment of addictive behaviors

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The book is divided into six parts. Part I provides a general overview of the process of assessment within the addictive behaviors. Donovan, in Chapter 1, focuses on the commonalities across addictive behaviors, the emergent biopsychosocial model of addictions, and the implications of this model for the process of assessment. Part II includes chapters by Vuchinich, Tucker, and Harllee on the behavioral assessment of alcohol dependence (Chapter 2); by Annis and Davis on the assessment of expectations related to drinking and alcohol dependence (Chapter 3); and by Leigh and Skinner on the assessment of physiological factors associated with alcohol dependence (Chapter 4). Part III focuses on smoking behavior. In Chapter 5, Shiffman discusses behavioral assessment for smoking cessation. Baer and Lichtenstein focus on cognitive-expectational factors involved in smoking behavior (Chapter 6). Objective physiological measures that may be useful for the treatment of smoking are presented by Kozlowski and Herling in Chapter 7. Part IV has three chapters addressing eating behaviors and disorders. Part V also contains three chapters, with a focus on the assessment of other drugs of abuse. Although there has been an increase in the availability of information concerning drugs, such information appears to be accruing at a relatively slower pace than for alcohol, smoking, and eating disorders. As such, we felt that there was not yet enough information within the literature on the assessment of drug abuse to support separate chapters on behavioral, cognitive-expectational, and physiological factors. Thus, the authors of the three chapters in Part V were asked to try to provide an overview of these three primary assessment domains within each of their chapters. Roffman and George (Chapter 11) discuss the assessment of cannabis abuse. Chapter 12, by Washton, Stone, and Hendrickson, focuses on the clinical evaluation of the cocaine abuser. The assessment of heroin addiction is presented by Callahan and Pecsok in Chapter 13. The final section of the book, Part VI, focuses on the relevance of the assessment process to the selection and evaluation of treatment interventions for an addictive behavior. Maisto and Connors (Chapter 14) discuss both general and specific aspects of the assessment process related to the evaluation of treatment outcome across the addictive behaviors. Curry, Marlatt, Peterson, and Lutton (Chapter 15) present an overview of a statistical procedure, survival analysis, that is particularly helpful in determining the relative risk of relapse at differing points in time following treatment. Finally, in Chapter 16, Marlatt discusses practical and heuristic issues involved in the selection of appropriate treatment strategies based on the outcome of the assessment process. (Extract of the publication)