Assessment and Treatment of the Dwi Offender

by Wuth; Charles

• ISBN13: 9780789014986
• ISBN10: 078901498X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-11-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Work more effectively with DWI offenders! This valuable book provides current information on the psychological, social-demographic, and psychiatric characteristics of DWI offenders. It also will provide you with up-to-date assessment strategies that can be employed with offenders, who characteristically are resistant to such assessment. Until now, books written on this subject have focused purely on research that has been done with offenders. This book, however, provides both theoretical and applied strategies for working with this very difficult population in clinical/treatment settings. Assessment and Treatment of the DWI Offender provides practical treatment approaches such that will help you manage client resistance and incorporate family members and significant others into the treatment process to more effectively treat offenders. Assessment and Treatment of the DWI Offender examines: the important variables that separate DWI offenders from alcoholics in general, as well as the "normal" population patterns of drinking behavior among offenders the magnitude of the DWI problem in the United States the history of the DWI countermeasures movement prevention and public education organizations such as SADD, MADD, the Partners in Progress program, the College Binge Drinking Initiative, and more enforcement techniques like breath testing, standardized field sobriety tests, on-site drug detection devices, etc. problems with the tools and techniques that are currently being used to address this issue interviewing techniques that work with DWI offenders more! Intended primarily for counselors, social workers, psychologists, and other professionals who work with DWI offenders and packed with helpful and easy-to-read statistical charts and tables, this book is also essential for graduate students in psychology, social work, chemical dependency, or any of the helping professions.

Author Biography

Alan A. Cavaiola, PhD, CADC, has more than a quarter century of experience working in the addictions treatment field. He is a Licensed Psychologist, a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor, and a Licensed Professional Counselor in New Jersey. Dr. Cavaiola is currently Assistant Professor and a member of the Graduate Faculty of Monmouth University in the psychology department. In addition to his clinical work with DWI offenders, Dr. Cavaiola has also published extensively in this area, as well as in the treatment of adolescent chemical dependency. After receiving his doctoral degree from Hofstra University, Dr. Cavaiola served as the Clinical Director of the Monmouth Chemical Dependency Treatment Center, an affiliate of Monmouth Medical Center, for fifteen years Charles W. Wuth, LCSW, CAC, has more than twenty-five years of experience in the addictions treatment field. Mr. Wuth has also published previously in the DWI offender treatment area. In addition, both he and Dr. Cavaiola have presented several training sessions and workshops on the topic of assessment and treatment of DWI offenders at locations including the Rutgers Summer School of Alcohol and Drug Studies. Mr. Wuth is currently working in the mental health field and has a private practice

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Robert B. Voas
Acknowledgments	xxi
Drinking and Driving in the United States: The Scope of the Problem	1	(34)
Introduction	1	(2)
History of the DWI Countermeasures Movements	3	(10)
Overview of the Scope of the Problem	13	(2)
Characteristics of the Problem	15	(6)
The Countermeasure Initiatives and Their Impact	21	(11)
Summary	32	(3)
Psychological Characteristics of DWI Offenders	35	(16)
Who Are DWI Offenders?	37	(1)
Personality Characteristics	38	(6)
Psychiatric Correlates	44	(3)
Summary and Conclusions	47	(4)
Profile Differences Between DWI Offenders and Alcoholics, and Other Demographic Variables	51	(14)
Demographic Variables	54	(3)
Drinking Behavior Among DWI Offenders	57	(3)
Drug Use Among DWI Offenders	60	(1)
Estimates of Alcoholism	61	(2)
Summary	63	(2)
Assessment and Diagnostic Issues	65	(10)
Problems with Current Measures	66	(3)
Solutions to the Screening Dilemma	69	(3)
Conclusions	72	(3)
Assessment and Diagnostic Measures and Tools	75	(38)
Structured Interview Format	75	(5)
Questionnaires and Inventories	80	(25)
The Biopsychosocial Assessment	105	(8)
Alcohol Countermeasures	113	(18)
Kami R. Venema
Deterrence versus Treatment	114	(1)
Legislation	114	(2)
Blood Alcohol Concentration	116	(1)
Sanctions	117	(4)
Assessment, Referral Criteria, and Incentives	121	(1)
Program Descriptions	122	(3)
Preventing Recidivism	125	(6)
Resistance Issues in the Treatment of the DWI Offender	131	(14)
Resistance and the DWI Offender	135	(4)
Managing Resistance	139	(4)
Conclusion	143	(2)
Treatment Strategies, Part 1	145	(14)
Issues in Treatment	145	(2)
Overview of Treatment Issues	147	(3)
Ethical Questions	150	(1)
Profile Differences and Diversity: Implications for Treatment	151	(5)
Summary	156	(3)
Treatment Strategies, Part 2	159	(40)
Program Design Element	159	(4)
Innovations	163	(10)
Program Content	173	(7)
Clinical Issues	180	(13)
Counselor Effectiveness	193	(2)
Credentialing Issues	195	(1)
Summary	196	(3)
Treating the Family of the DWI Offender	199	(18)
Establishing the Need for Family Involvement	201	(3)
Reactions of the Family to the DWI Event	204	(5)
Family Members in Treatment	209	(2)
Variations on a Theme	211	(2)
Practical Treatment Suggestions	213	(3)
Concluding Remarks	216	(1)
Where We Are---Where We Are Going	217	(8)
Appendix A. Traffic Safety Facts 1998---State Alchohol Estimates	225	(4)
Appendix B. Samples of Forms and Contracts Adapted for the DWI Offender	229	(8)
Aftercare Prep Exercise	229	(2)
Abstinence Lecture	231	(3)
Discussion Exercise	234	(1)
Group Process Sheet	235	(1)
Sentence Completion	235	(1)
Group Ground Rules	236	(1)
Glossary	237	(6)
Bibliography	243	(30)
Index	273