The Treatment of Drinking Problems
A Guide to the Helping Professions
5th Edition
Published on 30. September 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
271 pages
978-0-521-13237-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Treatment of Drinking Problems has become the definitive text in the field of alcohol problems. It addresses the frontline realities of clinical practice in an informed and empathetic way, whilst grounding this approach in critical scientific review. Now in its fifth edition, the text has been thoroughly revised and updated with new sections covering interventions for hazardous and harmful drinking, dependent drinking, and the different settings in which alcohol problems are encountered. Clinical vignettes are used throughout the text to bring the discussion to life and to address the frontline realities of clinical practice. This is a highly readable and practical guide for anyone, generalist or specialist, treating or caring for someone with an alcohol problem.
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Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
29 Tables, black and white; 11 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-13237-4 (9780521132374)
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Keith Humphreys | Anne Lingford-Hughes
Edwards' Treatment of Drinking Problems
A Guide for the Helping Professions
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E. Jane Marshall | Keith Humphreys | David M. Ball
The Treatment of Drinking Problems
A Guide to the Helping Professions
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09/2010
5th Edition
Cambridge University Press
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09/2010
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Previous edition
Griffith Edwards | E. Jane Marshall | Christopher C. H. Cook
The Treatment of Drinking Problems
A Guide for the Helping Professions
Book
06/2003
4th Edition
Cambridge University Press
€55.71
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Persons
E. Jane Marshall is Consultant Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Senior Lecturer in the Addictions, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK. Keith Humphreys is Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford University, and Research Career Scientist, Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto, USA. David M. Ball is Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK.
Content
Preface; A note on the fifth edition; Introduction; Part I. Background to Understanding: 1. Definitions of drinking problems; 2. Alcohol as a drug; 3. Causes of drinking problems; 4. Social complications and consequences; 5. Physical complications of excessive drinking; 6. Drinking problems and psychiatric co-morbidity; 7. Alcohol and other drugs; 8. Various clinical presentations; Part II. Screening, Assessment and Treatment: 9. Introduction, settings and roles; 10. Non-specialist settings; 11. Assessment as the beginning of therapy; 12. Withdrawal states and treatment of withdrawal; 13. The basic work of treatment; 14. Specialist treatment and pharmacotherapy; 15. Alcoholics Anonymous and alternatives; 16. Spiritual and religious issues in treatment; 17. Working towards normal drinking; 18. When things go wrong and putting them right; Index.