Staged interventions and tough love are the approaches this family guide sets aside. Clinicians from the Center for Motivation and Change, writing with Stephanie Higgs, lay out a kinder method instead.

Readical Key Points

• Updated and expanded tenth anniversary edition with a new foreword by Holly Whitaker, author of Quit Like a Woman, according to the publisher
• By Jeffrey Foote, Carrie Wilkens and Nicole Kosanke of the Center for Motivation and Change, with Stephanie Higgs
• The earlier edition won a 2015 Books for a Better Life Award in the relationships category, according to Ingram
• Content note: addresses addiction and compulsive behavior; a guide for families, not a substitute for professional treatment
• Paperback, Scribner

The authors argue for kindness, rewards for positive steps, and motivational and behavioral techniques in place of staged interventions and tough love. Drawing on their research and clinical work, they explain how people change and how a family member can encourage it, with guided exercises, case examples, updated resources and tips for finding a way through the treatment system.

Parents, partners and friends of someone with a substance problem are the readers it is written for. The book gives the family a method rather than a promise about the person they are worried about, and its chapters on treatment help a family weigh options alongside professionals.

About the Authors

Jeffrey Foote, PhD, and Carrie Wilkens, PhD, cofounded the Center for Motivation and Change, and Nicole Kosanke, PhD, has served as its clinical director, according to their publisher. Stephanie Higgs is an editor, writer and publisher.

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