Gender and Addictions: Men and Women in Treatment

ISBN-13: 9780765700704 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 528 str.

S. L. A. Straussner; Lala A. Straussner; Elizabeth Zelvin

Opis

Whether they are psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses or counsellors, clinicians today work with clients with multiple diagnoses that often include substance abuse and other addictive behaviours. While historically addiction research and treatment were based on male models, gender studies were almost exclusively concerned with women. The idea that men too are a gender, and that their addiction patterns and treatment needs must be reexamined in the light of postfeminist and men's movement consciousness as well as the rapid recent growth of scientific knowldge, is only now beginning to be explored.