Responding to the Oppression of Addiction : Canadian Social Work Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781551303680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 414 str.

Opis

Offers new perspectives on the meaning, role, and history of addiction in our society and the construction of illicit drug use as a social problem. This substantially revised second edition provides an authoritative focus on policy issues that will extend and enrich the education and on-going discussion of addiction within the social work community.

Spis treści

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Creating a Social Work Understanding of Addiction - Rick Csiernik and William S. Rowe
• Part 1: Prevention
• 2. Prevention as Controversy: Harm Reduction - Jim Watkin, William S. Rowe and Rick Csiernik
• 3. Supervised Injection Sites: Harm Reduction and Health Promotion - William S. Rowe and Cassandra Gonzalez
• 4. Culture as Prevention: A Case Study of Urban Canadian Jewish Male Students - Michael B. Waxman and Rick Csiernik
• Part 2: Programs
• 5. Is Alcoholics Anonymous of Value for Social Work Practitioners? - Rick Csiernik
• 6. A Model for Working with Women Dealing with Child Sexual Abuse and Addiction: The Laurel Centre - Diane Hiebert-Murphy and Lee Woytkiw
• 7. Narrative Therapy Ideas and Practices for Working with Addiction - Laura Beres
• 8. Professional-Peer Co-leadership: The Elders Health Program - Debra Kostyk, Don Fuchs, Ellen Tabisz and William R. Jacyk
• 9. Maintaining the Continuum of Care: Arguing for Community-Based Residential Addiction Treatment Programs - Rick Csiernik
• 10. Does Sex Matter? Individual and Group Outcomes of Male and Female Community Treatment Clients - Jane Troller, Rick Csiernik and Steve Didham
• Part 3: Populations
• 11. Coming Home: Rediscovering the Family in Addiction Treatment in Canada - Ramona Alaggia and Rick Csiernik
• 12. Patterns of Intimacy and Sexual Expression in Interaction with Addictions - Louise Osmond and Dennis Kimberley
• 13. The Use of Prescribed Psychotropic Drugs by Working Women - Pauline Morissette and Nicole Dedobbeleer and Emma Wilson and Rick Csiernik
• 14. Violent Substance Abusers in Domestic Violence Treatment - Thomas Brown, Annette Werk, Tom Caplan and Peter Seraganian
• 15. Multiple Barriers: The Intersection of Substance Abuse in the Lives of Women Disclosing and Seeking Help for Intimate Partner Violence - Anna Francis, Ramona Alaggia and Rick Csiernik
• 16. Drug Use, Addiction and the Criminal Justice System - Amber Kellen and Lois Powers
• 17. The Treatment of Adolescent Substance Abuse - Chris Stewart and William S. Rowe
• 18. The Experiences of Chinese-Canadians in Drug Treatment Programs in Vancouver - Siu-ming Kwok
• 19. Understanding the Ultimate Oppression: Alcohol and Drug Addiction in Native Land - Mavis Etienne and Kelly Brownbill
• 20. Concurrent Disorders and Social Work Intervention - Dennis Kimberley and Louise Osmond
• 21. Is Substance Abuse Even an Issue? Perceptions of Male and Female Community-Based Mental Health System Consumer-Survivors - Rick Csiernik
• Part 4: Policy
• 22. Many Paths to Prohibition: Drug Policy in Canada - Rick Csiernik and Robin Koop-Watson
• 23. Addiction Intervention, Employability and Welfare - Carolyne Gorlick and Rick Csiernik
• 24. Are Social Workers Taught to Be Competent Addiction Counsellors? - Greg Graves, Rick Csiernik, Jamie Foy and Joseph Cesar
• Part 5: Problem Gambling
• 25. Problem Gambling: Current Knowledge and Clinical Perspectives - Jeffrey Derevensky, Rina Gupta and Rick Csiernik
• List of Contributing Authors
• Index
• Copyright Acknowledgments