Addressing substance abuse treatment for youths and adults, this volume helps busy practitioners by providing the "how-to" and "what now" rather than using the typical academic approach.

Addressing substance abuse treatment for youths and adults, this volume helps busy practitioners by providing the "how-to" and "what now" rather than using the typical academic approach. Each contributed chapter follows a consistent structure including an introduction; a detailed and practical step-by-step guide to the intervention; indicators and contra-indicators; cases; and additional resources, making the book an easy-to-use and essential resource for practitioners in social work, counseling, psychology, and students-in-training.