Description |
xx, 457 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-448) and index. |
Contents |
Theoretical considerations -- Treating drinkers and drug users in the community : an overview -- The political dimension -- Different national approaches -- Prevention and treatment not separate issues but part of a continuum -- Prevention and treatment services for young people -- Prevention and treatment services for adults -- Assessment -- Treatment -- The therapeutic framework -- Understanding behavioural and cognitive-behavioural treatment approaches -- Effective counselling for ongoing client contact -- The nature and timing of care plan interventions -- Brief interventions -- Prescribing interventions -- Everyone needs help to prevent relapse -- Reducing environmental harm and increasing social strength -- Reducing psychological harm and increasing psychological strength -- Working with families -- Substance use and mental health -- Physical health issues -- Women parents and children -- Professionally aided self-help, twelve step work and the maintenance of abstinence -- Epilogue. |
Subject |
Substance abuse -- Treatment.
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Community mental health services.
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Added Author |
Rumball, Daphne.
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ISBN |
0632035757 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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