Topic
Addictions
An addiction is recognised less by the amount consumed than by loss of control and by carrying on despite the consequences. The resources in this topic help you take stock of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis or gambling, cut down or stop, and support someone close to you who is affected. They draw on motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural approaches, and explain when medical support is needed, particularly for alcohol withdrawal.
10 resources
For the public
Gambling: taking stock
One more bet to win it back, then another, and the month's money gone in a single evening. This guide helps you take stock without judgement: how gambling keeps people playing, which thinking traps make you play again, what changes with sports betting and online gambling, and how to take back control, from the barriers you can put in place tonight to the debts you need to face. A whole section is addressed to family and friends.
Helping someone close who drinks
You count the bottles, you invent excuses, you always argue in the evening and never in the morning. This guide explains why the reproach-against-denial stand-off never works, what research has shown to be most effective in getting someone into treatment, how to speak at the right moment, how to stop shielding them from consequences, how to protect the children, and how to hold up yourself.
Stopping smoking
Stopping smoking is not a question of willpower: it is a question of method, treatment and preparation. This guide explains how nicotine dependence works, what withdrawal looks like and how long it lasts, what nicotine replacement, support and the electronic cigarette are really worth, how to get through cravings, how to limit weight gain, and how to start again after going back to smoking.
Drinking less, or stopping
One glass that becomes three, a bottle that lasts less long than it used to, an alcohol-free Monday that never comes. This guide helps you take stock without judgement: how much you actually drink, what alcohol does to your sleep, your anxiety and your mood, how to choose between cutting down and stopping, why stopping abruptly can be dangerous, and how to get through cravings without relapsing.
Cannabis: taking stock
A joint in the evening to switch off, then two, then the day that starts with one. This guide helps you take stock without judgement: what cannabis actually does, how to tell whether your use has become a problem, how to choose between cutting down and stopping, what withdrawal looks like, and how to get through cravings without relapsing.
For professionals
These manuals are written for psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health practitioners. Anyone can read a preview; the full text is reserved for practitioners who have submitted proof of their professional status and who hold a professional plan.
Stopping benzodiazepines and sleeping pills: a therapist's manual
A ten-session protocol, followed by three booster sessions, for providing psychological support when a benzodiazepine or a related sleeping pill taken over the long term is stopped, once stopping has been decided and is conducted by the prescribing doctor. The psychologist does not touch the dose: they prepare the decision, put ways of sleeping and of easing anxiety in place before the first step, teach the person to distinguish withdrawal symptoms, rebound and relapse, and prevent a return to the medication during the six months following the last dose. The manual also covers safety, with the emergencies of withdrawal, alcohol, opioids, pregnancy and the older person, as well as those close to the person, and provides worksheets to hand over and full references.
Stopping smoking: a therapist's manual
A protocol of nine sessions, individual or in a group, followed by three booster sessions, to support a tobacco-dependent adult through stopping and beyond, with an adaptation for adolescents from the age of fifteen. It combines what research has established best: structured behavioural support, combined with a stop-smoking medication or an electronic cigarette decided with a prescriber. It is organised around a clear quit date, the management of withdrawal and urges, high-risk situations, the difference between a lapse and a relapse, weight and maintenance. It also covers mental health, interactions between tobacco and certain medications, pregnancy, other addictions and hospital stays, with published measures, worksheets to hand over and full references.
Cannabis use disorder: a therapist's manual
A twelve-session protocol, session by session, for cannabis use disorder in adults, and an adolescent and family strand described meeting by meeting. First the risks that change what you do: psychotic symptoms, suicidal thoughts, cyclical vomiting, pregnancy, driving. Then the goal, stopping or cutting down, discussed honestly. Motivational interviewing, functional analysis, withdrawal and sleep, craving, refusal, the lapse, contingency management, today's products, medical cannabis, worksheets to hand over and full references.
Gambling disorder: a therapist's manual
A twelve-session protocol, session by session, for gambling disorder in adults — sports betting, online casino games, machines, lotteries, and speculative trading when it works the same way. First suicide risk, markedly higher in this disorder than in the general population, and to be looked for every time money moves. Then what makes treatment effective: closing off access and protecting the money, analysing episodes, dismantling beliefs about chance and chasing losses, getting through the urge, facing the debts and coming out of secrecy, preparing for the lapse. Self-exclusion, over-indebtedness, those close to the person, comorbidities, screening scales, the worksheets to hand over and the full references.
Alcohol use disorder: a therapist's manual
A twelve-session protocol, session by session, for alcohol use disorder in adults. First the safety of withdrawal, because this is the only indication on this site where stopping carries a risk to life. Then the question of the goal — abstinence or reduction, and for whom. Motivational interviewing, functional analysis of situations, managing craving, refusing, emotions without alcohol, and a whole session devoted to the lapse before it happens. The medications available, those close to the person, work and the driving licence, mutual-aid groups, worksheets to hand over and full references.
Other topics
- ADHD6
- Anxiety34
- Attention & focus9
- Autism4
- Children & parents35
- Depression & mood25
- Eating disorders4
- Emotions24
- Gender identity1
- Grief7
- Loneliness5
- Longevity5
- Mindfulness1
- Neurocognitive disorders3
- OCD7
- Personality disorders12
- Psychosis8
- Relationships14
- Self-esteem7
- Sleep12
- Stress & burnout10
- Studying3
- Tics & Tourette1
- Trauma10
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