Practitioners and graduate students in clinical psychology, clinical social work, psychiatric nursing, substance abuse counseling, and psychiatry. Serves as a text in such courses as Psychology of Addiction, Treating Addiction, Addiction Counseling, Social Work Practice with Addiction/Substance Abuse, and Theories of Addiction and Substance Abuse.

Carlo C. DiClemente, PhD, ABPP, is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), and Director of the MDQuit tobacco resource center, the Center for Community Collaboration, and the Home Visitor Training Certificate Program at UMBC. He is codeveloper of the transtheoretical model of behavior change and author of numerous scientific publications on motivation and behavior change with a variety of health and addictive behaviors. His books include Addiction and Change, Second Edition; Substance Abuse Treatment and the Stages of Change, Second Edition; Group Treatment for Substance Abuse, Second Edition; and the self-help resource Changing for Good. Dr. DiClemente is a recipient of awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Addictive Behaviors Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the John P. McGovern Award from the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the Innovators Combating Substance Abuse award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association.

I. Understanding Addictions in Terms of Change
1. Models of Addiction and Change
2. The Process of Human Intentional Behavior Change
3. The Well-Maintained Addiction: An Ending and a Beginning
II. The Road to Addiction: The Journey through the Stages of Addiction
4. Exploring the Precontemplation and Contemplation Stages of Becoming Addicted and Interventions to Prevent Initiation
5. Preparation: The Critical Transition Stage from Contemplation through Experimentation to Regular Use
6. Repeated and Regular Use: Moving into Action on the Road to Addiction
III. Quitting an Addiction: The Journey through the Stages of Recovery
7. Precontemplation for Recovery: Cultivating Seeds for Change
8. The Decision to Change: Moving from the Contemplation Stage to the Preparation Stage of Recovery
9. Preparing for Action: Creating Commitment and a Plan
10. Taking Action to Change an Addiction
11. The Long Haul: Well-Maintained Recovery
IV. Research and Interventions and a Comprehensive Understanding of Addictions
12. Designing Interventions: Research Informed by the Process of Initiation and Recovery
13. Creating a Comprehensive Approach to Understanding Addiction
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