Description
Introduction 1. What is alcohol? 2. The route of alcohol through the body 3. Long-range consequences of unsafe drinking 4. Alcohol use: A historical perspective 5. Generic vulnerability 6. Environmental influences on drinking behaviour 7. Motives for drinking alcohol 8. Assessment of alcohol use and problems 9. Psychological treatments for alcohol use disorders 10. Treatments for alcohol-use disorders: additional considerations 11. Group therapy and mutual aid for alcohol-use problems 12. Natural recovery from an alcohol-use disorder
Miles Cox is Emeritus Professor of the Psychology of Addictive Behaviours in the School of Psychology at Bangor University. His career has been a very active one, academically and professionally. His postdoctoral career has been spent (a) conducting research on the motivational determinants of alcohol use, (b) supervising students' research projects, and (c) teaching university courses in the psychology of addictive behaviours. Miles Cox is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Addictive Diseases and a Senior Editor of Addiction. He is Founding Editor of Psychology of Addictive Behaviors and is a fellow in the British Psychological Society and two of the divisions of the American Psychological Association (the Society of Clinical Psychology and Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse). Cox is a Charter Fellow in (a) the Association for Psychological Science, and (b) the Division of Addictions of the American Psychological Association. He has received a Commendation from the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors for his contributions to the psychology of addictive behaviors.