- Paperback: 198 pages
- Publisher: Janus Publications; 1st edition (2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955816602
- ISBN-13: 978-0955816604
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 14.6 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 437,988 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An easy read for all interested in addiction. It aims to empower the practitioner to develop engagement and intervention skills with Crack and Cocaine users and users of other addictions. Written by two professional drug counsellors with over 28 years experience between them.
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Drink & Drugs News Dec 2007 review: Every now and then you come across a book that challenges the way you think. This book takes preconceptions around crack cocaine and gives them a good launder.
From their experiences of working with crack cocaine clients, they state that 'in reality crack cocaine is no more addictive than tobacco or alcohol' and consider how drug workers can give their clients the practical armoury they need to change their behaviours.
The techniques are well described and will be easy to pass on to the client: they describe in detail how to help them develop a self-questioning approach to understanding and resisting their cravings, and put them in control of their own behaviour.
I set out expecting to read this textbook a few chapters at a time, then devoured it at one sitting - not because the ideas aren't complex, but because it's immensely readable and it's written in an engaging conversational style.
The authors achieve a direct style without patronising the reader. Where diagrams are useful they are used, such as in the explanation of The Jo-hari Window. There is also good use of dialogue to draw on examples with the authors' own clients, which works particularly well in demonstrating how well (or badly) workers' interventions might work.
At the start of the book the authors state their intention to dismantle myths surrounding crack cocaine - myths that stand in the way of treating this group the same way as any other kind of drug user. The resulting text achieves more, in that it would serve any drug worker well as a stimulus to trying new ways of working and communicating better with their clients, whatever their substance misuse problem.
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This review is from: Crack Cocaine, The Open Door (Crack Cocaine, The Open Door) (Paperback)
this book should encourage all substance mis-use workers to continue to challenge themselves whilst challenging there service user group, i feel its healthy to be able to own your own feelings and misgivings around a client group that has been viewed in the past as difficult, resistant etc (not my experience of working with crack users by the way!!).
This book can be viewed by workers, service users, loved ones etc as there is something for everyone here and written in a very practical and useful manner as the title states "the open door", so for everyone who purchase's this book i hope you enjoy it as much as i did. Hopefully there will be another book from these author's as i will be buying that too!!!
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This review is from: Crack Cocaine, The Open Door (Crack Cocaine, The Open Door) (Paperback)
Not only is this book well presented in terms of its visual impact and readability, the structure is very well thought out and clearly comes from a hands on perspective rather than from one that is based purely on academic research. The information it provides and skills it teaches are applicable, primarily to practitioners working with Crack users but by no means exclusively. There are several chapters which are to a greater extent, handbooks within themselves and focus specifically on the practice issues that are most useful. Indeed, there are no words that are wasted from start to finish.
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