Patients with Substance Abuse Problems

Effective Identification, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Edgar P. Nace, Joyce A. Tinsley (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2007
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-70511-9 (ISBN)

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Whether or not you are trained as an addictions specialist, you will encounter addictions issues during the course of your career. Learning how to approach these patients should lessen the anxiety that comes from not knowing how to manage their problems.

The book is a brief and practical introduction to diagnosis and intervention with substance-abusing clients. Each chapter uses brief vignettes to illustrate concepts, and tables or figures to clarify material. Two special populations are featured in this book: those at opposite ends of the age spectrum-adolescence and late life. This book provides reasons for clinicians to be optimistic about their work with patients who abuse substances. In part, this optimism is based on improved scientific understanding of drug and alcohol dependence. Compared to the slow pace of research in the past, knowledge about the brain's role in addictive diseases has accumulated at a rapid pace over the past twenty years. The numbers of psychotherapeutic and pharmacologic interventions have grown as well. This book will be a handy guide for all those in clinical practice.

Edgar P. Nace, M.D. is a Board certified psychiatrist with added qualifications in addiction psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Medical Director at Turtle Creek Manor in Dallas, and in the private practice of adult psychiatry. Joyce A. Tinsley, M.D. is a clinician in the Psychiatry Residency Program at Hartford Hospital's Institute of Living.

1. Facing the Challenge: Patients with Substance Abuse Problems
2. Addiction: A Disease of the Reward Pathway
3. Does the Patient Know Something is Wrong?
4. Steps to Identification
5. Making a Diagnosis
6. Treatment Options
7. Adolescence
8. Substance Abuse in Late Life
9. Smoking
10. Pharmacologic Treatment

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.4.2007
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 241 mm
Gewicht	498 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Suchtkrankheiten
ISBN-10	0-393-70511-0 / 0393705110
ISBN-13	978-0-393-70511-9 / 9780393705119
Zustand	Neuware