The Treatment of Drinking Problems
A Guide for the Helping Professions
2nd Edition
Published on 11. August 1987
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-632-01809-3 (ISBN)
Description
Using case histories and offering clear guidelines for the management of the problem drinker, this book should be helpful to all those involved in alcoholism - from hospital doctors and nurses to social workers and probation officers. "The Treatment of Drinking Problems" is based on the author's extensive experience of managing alcoholic patients and while admitting the tremendous difficulties which can occur in treating this type of patient, he shows how these difficulties may be constructively met. In this new edition the basic structure has been retained, but the content has been brought up-to-date to reflect current thinking on clinical concern, a new chapter has been added to the first section and the bibliography has been thoroughly revised and updated.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
604 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-632-01809-3 (9780632018093)
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Griffith Edwards | E. Jane Marshall | Christopher C. Cook
The Treatment of Drinking Problems
A Guide for the Helping Professions
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10/1997
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Cambridge University Press
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Content
Introduction. Background to understanding : Causes of excessive drinking; The alcohol dependence syndrome; Alcoholism and the family; Social complications of excessive drinking; Alcoholism and psychiatric illness; Drug problems and alcohol problems; Physical complications of excessive drinking; Women with drinking problems; Some special presentations. Assessment : Case history as initiation of therapy; Initial assessment with the spouse; Formulation and the setting of goals; Case identification and screening. Treatment : Withdrawal states and treatment of withdrawal; The basic work of treatment; Alcoholics anonymous; Special techniques; Working towards normal drinking; Treatment and the in-patient setting; Organization of treatment services; When things go wrong and putting them right.