Handbook of Motivational Counseling: Goal-Based Approaches to Assessment and Intervention with Addiction and Other Problems [Hardcover]

Handbook of Motivational Counseling: Goal-Based Approaches to Assessment and Intervention with Addiction and Other Problems [Hardcover] . W. Miles Cox and Eric Klinger. 666 pp., 2nd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. £60.00. ISBN: 10-0470749261; ISBN: 13-978-0470749265 ![Graphic][1] This second edition, 8 years on, describes the accumulating evidence for motivational counselling. It is comprehensively written by 43 experts from around the world. The main thrust is to deconstruct drinking behaviour into a motivational model. This permits analysis of the factors that contribute to an individual's maladaptive decision to drink problematically. Cox and … [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif