ABSTRACT
This chapter describes different types of psychosocial interventions, discusses condition-specific outcomes, and summarizes the different levels of care of substance use disorders. Psychosocial interventions play an important role in treating a range of drug problems and addictive behaviors. In 2015, the Institute of Medicine convened an expert committee to identify key steps to ensure successful implementation of psychosocial interventions to individuals receiving mental health and substance use services and devised a framework that can be used to establish standards. Abstinence incentives have been effectively used for treating amphetamine, cocaine, alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use disorders and have been found to be effective in patients with a wide variety of demographic, psychosocial, and substance use characteristics. Interventions that have studies supporting their use include behavioral couples therapy, family therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, community reinforcement approach, contingency management, individual drug counseling, motivational interviewing, brief intervention, 12-step facilitation, and peer support.
