The last three decades have seen an explosion of social,psychological and clinical research to identify effectivestrategies to prevent and treat alcohol-related problems. This"Essential Handbook" contains an updatedselection of reviews of "what works" drawn from thecritically acclaimed International Handbook of AlcoholDependence and Problems.Selected specifically for health and other professionals, whoneed to provide effective responses in their work, theseauthoritative, science-based reviews are a distillation of the morepractical elements, designed to save time for the busypractitioner.