Introduction to Addictive Behaviors, Sixth Edition

“A valuable and comprehensive resource for students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The sixth edition distinguishes itself with coverage of such topics as co-occurring disorders, reducing stigma, sociocultural factors, emerging issues surrounding behavioral addictions, and current public health concerns. The text encourages students to connect theory and research with the lived realities of addiction across diverse communities and individuals. It equips future practitioners to be competent, compassionate, culturally aware, and effective in increasingly complex clinical environments.”–Amy Sims, MS, LCADC, MAC, SAP, Adjunct Professor of Human Services, College of Southern Maryland

“This is one of the few texts that manage to be equally valuable for both classroom instruction and professional training. The sixth edition belongs on the syllabus of any undergraduate or graduate course in addictions counseling and on the desk of any practitioner seeking a rigorous theoretical grounding. The authors’ decision to span disease models, psychoanalytic formulations, conditioning approaches, public health models, and other frameworks in a single, coherent volume reflects the multidisciplinary reality of addiction work. For students and trainees, the updated coverage, accessible writing, clinical examples, and chapter review questions transform complex science into actionable knowledge–precisely what front-line professionals need most.”–Brian Bride, PhD, MSW, MPH, Hill Crest Foundation Endowed Academic Chair in Mental Health, School of Social Work, University of Alabama

Dennis L. Thombs, PhD, FAAHB, is Distinguished Professor of Public Health (retired) at The University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth, where he formerly served as Dean of the School of Public Health. Before retiring, his research focus was addictive behavior, with special interests in the conceptualization of addiction and in alcohol and drug use during the period of emerging adulthood. Dr. Thombs is a past president and Fellow of the American Academy of Health Behavior.

Cynthia J. Osborn, PhD, LPCC-S, LICDC, is Professor Emerita of Counselor Education and Supervision at Kent State University. Her clinical background is in treatment of adults with co-occurring substance use disorders and mental illness. Before retiring, Dr. Osborn’s teaching, supervision, and scholarship focused on addictions counseling, particularly evidence-based practices such as motivational interviewing. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and has extensive experience in the clinical supervision of counselors-in-training and professional counselors.

William V. Lechner, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Kent State University, where he teaches courses including Drugs and Behavior, Introduction to Psychological Assessment, and Advanced Psychological Assessment. His research focuses on translating human laboratory findings into novel and effective therapeutic interventions for substance use disorders. Dr. Lechner’s work explores the bidirectional relationships between cognitive processes and addictive behaviors, including a recent study examining cognitive training combined with neuromodulation to improve executive functioning relevant to addiction outcomes.

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