Working with Drug and Alcohol Users—A Guide to Providing Understanding, Assessment and Support

Working with Drug and Alcohol Users—A Guide to Providing Understanding, Assessment and Support . By Tony White, Jessica Kingsley, 2012. £19.99. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-1-84905-115-6. The author is a registered psychologist in private practice in Western Australia. He is also a teacher and a supervisor of transactional analysis psychotherapists. The book comes from his experience of 30 years of work with clients suffering from various forms of drug misuse-including alcohol. The book is clearly written and would be of interest to those setting out on a career as a counsellor or cognitive behaviour therapist. The clinical illustrations in the book bring alive some of the constructs of transactional analysis. The first chapter contains a cursory …