The Treatment of Drinking Problems

A Guide for the Helping Professions

Griffith Edwards, E. Jane Marshall, Christopher C. H. Cook (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2003 | 4th Revised edition
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-01714-5 (ISBN)

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The Treatment of Drinking Problems has become, over the past twenty years, the definitive text in its field. Internationally acclaimed and translated into six languages, it is the most authoritative source book for the treatment of alcohol problems for all professionals who encounter them.

DOB 3/10/1928. Editor-in-Chief Addiction, and a member of WHO's Expert Advisory Panel on Drug and Alcohol Problems. Awards include the Stevens Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Jellinek Memorial Award (international alcohol research prize), the Nathan Eddy Medal (US drugs research prize).

Introduction; Part I. Background to Understanding: 1. The history of treatment for drinking problems; 2. Causes of drinking problems; 3. Alcohol as a drug; 4. The alcohol dependence syndrome; 5. Drinking problems and the family; 6. Social complications of excessive drinking; 7. Drinking problems as cause of neuropsychiatric disorder; 8. Alcohol problems and psychiatric comorbidity; 9. Alcohol and other drug problems; 10. Physical complications of excessive drinking; 11. Women with drinking problems; 12. Some special presentations; 13. Drinking problems and the life course; Part II. Screening, Assessment and Treatment: 14. Case identification and screening; 15. Assessment as the beginning of therapy; 16. Withdrawal states and treatment of withdrawal; 17. The basic work of treatment; 18. Alcoholics Anonymous; 19. Special techniques; 20. Working toward normal drinking; 21. When things go wrong and putting them right; 22. Treatment settings, professional roles, and the organisation of treatment services; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.6.2003
Zusatzinfo	43 Tables, unspecified
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	176 x 249 mm
Gewicht	870 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Suchtkrankheiten
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-521-01714-9 / 0521017149
ISBN-13	978-0-521-01714-5 / 9780521017145
Zustand	Neuware