...a mother is wracked with anxiety for her once loving son who is now transformed beyond recognition... - ...the silent father cannot articulate his fear or defeat for a lost daughter... - ...husbands and wives struggle to reconcile the destruction reaped upon them by the person they vowed to spend their life with.... * In this manual, author Phil Harris sees the 'concerned other' as the person most able to effect change in a substance abuser's life. Harris presents a thoroughly researched and carefully argued theoretical underpinning of his work, and offers practitioners a clear and comprehensive, intervention-based program to help the concerned other bring about the change that he or she most wants to see. The Concerned Other is for drug and alcohol workers, youth workers, criminal justice workers, social workers, housing officers, counselors, and families members. It provides a complete treatment manual for working with those affected by a family member's drug and alcohol use. It w