"It is a welcomed edition to any addiction studies classroom, and if not used as a main text it certainly needs to be listed as a creditable reference in a course syllabus. Addiction studies students need to know this book exists.a rock solid book. It deserves to be utilized in the best and most up-to-date addiction education programs."--Journal of Teaching in the Addictions ".a superb text that provides an excellent foundation for evidence-based practices for those clinicians who work in both administrative and clinical capacities with this challenging population. I highly recommend this book to researchers, teachers, and clinicians as an exceptionally useful tool. Given the current focus on outcomes studies and best practices, this book is timely in its concise descriptions of the stages of change and how to synthesize them with evidence-based treatment interventions.

"--Clinical Social Work Journal "This book is an especially important addition to this growing literature. The transtheoretical model is enormously popular with practitioners and researchers in the addictions field. Although a number of excellent chapters have been written describing the model (e.g., DiClemente and Prochaska, 1998), clinicians who wish to apply the model to a range of patient populations have lacked needed guidance. Readers now have an authoritative source on the clinical application of the transtheoretical model."--Journal of Studies on Alcohol ".this book is more than just a 'how-to-do' manual--readers will find it to be more of a 'how to think' book.

This is the first clinical text to provide a comprehensive coverage of the various assessment and treatment options that are matched to the each of the five stages of change: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance.The book is written clearly and provides a valuable sourcebook of diagnostic and intervention strategies. I was impressed with the updated material on clinical assessment methods and the breadth of matched treatment options, ranging from motivational enhancement to relapse prevention. The authors do a good job of referring to key research studies in their review of treatment effectiveness issues (e.g. Project MATCH).I recommend this book as a useful, practical and well-written guide for both students and professionals involved in the treatment of alcohol and other drug problems. Therapists will appreciate the many clinical case studies presented throughout the text.

"--Addiction "This book is unique in the field of chemical-dependency assessment and treatment since it is the first comprehensive application of Prochaska and DiClemente's therapeutic stages-of-change model to problems of substance abuse and treatment.Recommended for any library collecting literature on substance-abuse treatment for the use of upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals."--Choice.