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Gay and Sober

Directions for Counseling and Therapy

• By Thomas O. Ziebold, John E. Mongeon

• Price: $16.00
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 107
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1st August 1985
• ISBN: 978-0-918393-10-4

About the Book

This book, called a “landmark in the fields of alcoholism and homosexuality,” is enormously informative and well organized, with numerous practical and useful suggestions and guidelines on the treatment options available for gay people with alcohol problems. Leading professionals analyze approaches that are being implemented in providing services for this group of men and women, and describe programs and treatment protocols that have had reasonable measured success in different parts of the country.

Table of Contents

Contents Foreword

• Introduction: Alcoholism and the Homosexual Community
• Alcoholism and Homosexuality: A Theoretical Perspective
• Who Should Be Doing What About the Gay Alcoholic
• The Ties That Bind: Strategies for Counseling the Gay Male Co-Alcoholic
• Counseling the Homosexual Alcoholic
• Specific Approaches and Techniques in the Treatment of Gay Male Alcohol Abusers
• A Gay-Identified Alcohol Treatment Program: A Follow-Up Study
• Alcoholics Anonymous and the Gay Alcoholic
• Preventing Alcohol Abuse in the Gay Community: Toward a Theory and Model
• Working Together: The National Association of Gay Alcoholism Professionals
• Index
• Reference Notes Included