The treatment of drinking problems : a guide for the helping professions
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The treatment of drinking problems : a guide for the helping professions
Cambridge University Press, 2003
4th ed
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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