Substance Use and Misuse

Nature, Context and Clinical Interventions

Buch | Softcover

308 Seiten

1998
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-632-04884-7 (ISBN)

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Substance Use and Misuse is a comprehensive and practical text that covers the core elements of substance use and misuse in both acute and community settings. The text reflects those areas in which health-care professionals are assuming greater responsibility for those people misusing psychoactive substances. It adopts a skills-orientated approach, providing a framework of good clinical practice and is written by a group of clinicians and academics. This book is an invaluable tool for undergraduate and postgraduate students, educators and clinical practitioners in all branches of nursing, midwifery and health visiting. It is also relevant to others in the healing professions as well as generic and specialist health-care professionals.
* emphasis placed on prevention
* an up-to-date, practical and comprehensive text for students and practitioners in health care
* adopts a skills-orientated approach, supported by the latest research and case vignettes
* written by experts in clinical practice, management, education and research

G. Hussein Rassool is Professor of Psychology and Islamic Psychology, Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Head of the Department of Psychology, Islamic Online University.

Section I - Understanding Substance Use and Misuse. Chapter 1. Introduction.

Chapter 2. Concepts and Models.

Chapter 3. Tobacco Smoking.

Chapter 4. An Overview of Psychoactive Drugs.

Chapter 5. Alcohol and Alcohol Related Problems.

Chapter 6. It's Everybody's Business: the Responses of Health Care Professionals.

Section II - Prevention, Recognition and Intervention.

Chapter 7. Prevention and Health Education.

Chapter 8. Screening and Generic Assessment.

Chapter 9. An Overview of Intervention Strategies.

Chapter 10. Service Provision for Substance Misusers.

Section III - Generic Responses: Different Contexts and Settings.

Chapter 11. Drug Use, Pregnancy and Care of the New-born.

Chapter 12. Health Visiting and Substance Misuse.

Chapter 13. Practice Nurse: Recognition and Early Interventions.

Chapter 14. School Nursing and Substance Misuse.

Chapter 15. Substance Misuse in the Accident and Emergency Department.

Chapter 16. HIV, Hepatitis and Substance Misuse.

Section IV - Addiction nursing: Specialist Responses.

Chapter 17. Alcohol: Community Detoxification and Clinical Care.

Chapter 18. Benzodiazepines: Clinical Care and Nursing Intervention.

Chapter 19. Stimulants: Clinical Care and Nursing Interventions.

Chapter 20. Opiate and Polydrug Use: Clinical Care and Nursing Intervention.

Chapter 21. Nicotine Addiction: Health Care Interventions.

Chapter 22. Working with Diverse Special Populations.

Chapter 23. Working with Dual Diagnosis Clients.

Chapter 24. Contemporary Issues in Addiction Nursing

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.8.1998
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 236 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Suchtkrankheiten
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-632-04884-0 / 0632048840
ISBN-13	978-0-632-04884-7 / 9780632048847
Zustand	Neuware