Contents:
Chapter 1: Introductory comments 13
• Purpose of the Guidelines 13
• Audience for the Guidelines 14
• Levels of Evidence 14

Chapter 2: Access to treatment: overcoming barriers 21

Chapter 3: Screening and assessment 25
• The need for screening 25
• In-depth assessment before more intensive treatment 33

Chapter 4: Patient-treatment matching 55

Chapter 5: Alcohol withdrawal management 59
• Alcohol withdrawal syndrome 59
• Medical care for alcohol withdrawal complications 61
• Home-based, outpatient and inpatient withdrawal management 69
• Supervised medicated and non-medicated withdrawal management 73

Chapter 6: Post-withdrawal treatment setting 83
• Who should receive residential treatment? 84
• Potential improvements to residential/therapeutic community care 86

Chapter 7: Brief interventions 91

Chapter 8: Psychosocial interventions 99
• Characteristics of effective clinicians 99
• Counselling 100
• Motivational interviewing 103
• Cognitive-behavioural interventions 107
• Skills training 108
• Behavioural self-management 112
• Cognitive restructuring 114
• Cue exposure 116
• Couples and family therapy 117
• Self-guided materials 120
• Standardised versus tailored treatment 121

Chapter 9: Relapse prevention 127
• Identifying factors associated with relapse 127
• Strategies for assessing relapse risk 128
• Reducing the risk of relapse 129
• Pharmacotherapies for relapse prevention 130

Chapter 10: Extended care 145
• Treatment retention 145
• Alcoholics Anonymous 145
• Assertive outreach and structured aftercare 147

Chapter 11: Interventions for specific client groups 151
• Adolescents and young adults 151
• Cognitive impairment 155
• Comorbid disorders 158
• Gender 161
• Indigenous clients 164

Chapter 12: How to put it together 169
• When there is no time available 172
• Brief, one session, face-to-face interventions 172
• Brief outpatient interventions 173
• Longer multi-session outpatient interventions 174
• Brief inpatient/residential withdrawal management 175
• Day patient and inpatient/residential interventions 175

References 179
Appendices 197