Addiction and Opiates
ISBN: 9780202362236 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This classic study is concerned with addiction to opiate-type drugs and their synthetic equivalents. Lindesmith proposes and systematically elaborates a rational, general theoretical account of the nature of the experiences which generate the addict's characteristic craving for drugs. While this theoretical position has obvious implications for addictions that resemble opiate addiction in that they also involve drugs which produce physical dependence and withdrawal distress, the author does not extend the theory to these other forms of addiction, such as alcoholism.The central theoretical...
This classic study is concerned with addiction to opiate-type drugs and their synthetic equivalents. Lindesmith proposes and systematically elaborates...
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231,25 zł |
The Dissociative Mind
ISBN: 9780881634952 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Draws on the pioneering work of Janet, Freud, Sullivan, and Fairbairn. This title develops a model of the dissociative mind. It examines the relationship of segregated models of attachment, disorganized attachment, mentalization, and defensive exclusion to dissociative processes in general and to particular kinds of dissociative solutions.
Draws on the pioneering work of Janet, Freud, Sullivan, and Fairbairn. This title develops a model of the dissociative mind. It examines the relations...
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225,99 zł |
Heroin
ISBN: 9780875803869 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the interaction of the different approaches to heroin addiction and argues that the treatment of the addiction as a disease and the control of heroin as a social problem could, in practice, rarely be separated. This book is suitable for historians, sociologists, addiction specialists and contemporary policy-makers.
Examines the interaction of the different approaches to heroin addiction and argues that the treatment of the addiction as a disease and the control o...
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241,82 zł |
Research on Alcoholics Anonymous and Spirituality in Addiction Recovery: The Twelve-Step Program Model Spiritually Oriented Recovery Twelve-Step Membe
ISBN: 9780387777245 / Angielski / Twarda / 449 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It was once taken for granted that peer-assisted groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous had no "real" value in recovery from addiction. More recently, evidence-based medicine is recognizing a spiritual component in healing--especially when it comes to addiction. The newest edition of Recent Developments in Alcoholism reflects this change by focusing on the 12-step model of recovery as well as mindfulness meditation and other spiritually oriented activity. More than thirty contributors bring together historical background, research findings, and clinical wisdom to analyze the compatibility of... It was once taken for granted that peer-assisted groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous had no "real" value in recovery from addiction. More recently,... |
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586,33 zł |
Alcohol Problems in Older Adults: Prevention and Management
ISBN: 9780826114037 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This manual provides state-of-the-art, practical materials to detect, prevent, and intervene with older adults who are at-risk and problem drinkers. It provides the first systematic, practical approach for working with the growing vulnerable population of older adults who use alcohol at risk levels often unnoticed in everyday clinical practice. Including guides to alcohol screening, protocols for managing withdrawal care, and an English/Spanish Health Promotion Workbook for Older Adults, this book is designed as a hands-on text for use in a range of primary and mental health care settings....
This manual provides state-of-the-art, practical materials to detect, prevent, and intervene with older adults who are at-risk and problem drinkers. I...
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337,49 zł |
Clinician's Guide to Substance Abuse
ISBN: 9780071347136 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new series is directed to healthcare professionals who increasingly need information on holistic approaches to chronic illness in response to the growing demand from patients. Managed care has deferred responsibility for initial diagnosis and treatment of chronic conditions to primary care physicians and other healthcare professionals. The University of California's Institute for Health and Aging predicts that by 2020, 134 million Americans will have some form of chronic condition that will cause personal limitations or disabilities. Only about 33% of these patients will be elderly.
This new series is directed to healthcare professionals who increasingly need information on holistic approaches to chronic illness in response to the...
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203,34 zł |
Smoking: Individual Differences, Psychopathology, And Emotion
ISBN: 9781560321712 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Personality, psychopathology and emotional factors are intimately related to smoking, yet there are few efforts to integrate relevant findings in these areas. Taking a comprehensive, current and detailed view, this text develops an empirically-based model that reflects the multi-dimensional, individual-difference-related causal paths associated with smoking and its reinforcing and affect-modulating effects.
Personality, psychopathology and emotional factors are intimately related to smoking, yet there are few efforts to integrate relevant findings in thes...
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394,21 zł |
Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders: Personality Disorders and Addiction
ISBN: 9780789036926 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders addresses a complex client population, which presents service providers with significant professional challenges. Underlying personality disorders compromise treatment effectiveness for medical, other psychiatric, or trauma services, as well as the ability these individuals have in adhering to probation, parole, or court-ordered treatment requirements. A co-occuring substance use disorder amplifies the difficulties experienced by personality-disordered individuals, exacerbates the precarious nature of their relationships, and raises the...
Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders addresses a complex client population, which presents service providers with significant prof...
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630,82 zł |
Addictions and Problem Drug Use: Issues in Behaviour, Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9781853024382 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume reviews recent research into the nature and effects of addiction and considers the usefulness of policies which aim to prevent it. The contributors focus on topics such as smoking, alcoholism, gambling and injecting drug use, examining treatment and the effectiveness of prevention and intervention programmes. Such programmes include services for steroid users, needle exchange provision, and social workers' intervention in alcoholism. The reasons why people turn to substance abuse are explored as well as the real effects on health along with other subjects of importance to social...
This volume reviews recent research into the nature and effects of addiction and considers the usefulness of policies which aim to prevent it. The con...
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182,55 zł |
Gambling and Gaming Addictions in Adolescence
ISBN: 9781854333483 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This series of highly practical guides provides social work and health professionals who work with adolescents and their families with concise and up-to-date information on adolescents' problems. The guides are designed for use in assessment and intervention with clients and in planning training or therapeutic programmes, and can also be used for teaching purposes. The Hints for Parents sections which appear at the back of each guide may be photocopied and given to clients; the questionnaires, checklists and assessment forms which appear in the appendices are also copyright-free.
This series of highly practical guides provides social work and health professionals who work with adolescents and their families with concise and up-...
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115,93 zł |
The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends: A Very Trippy Miscellany
ISBN: 9780452289918 / Angielski / Miękka / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Read Adriano Sack's posts on the Penguin Blog.
Curiouser and curiouser fun and fascinating facts from the world of drugs. Following in the tradition of The Ultimate Book of Useless Information, The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends is a wry potpourri of interesting information about every conceivable kind of drug. Readers can feed their heads with anecdotes, facts, lists, statistics, and illustrations, including: The test results of animals on LSD cats lose their fear of dogs, and goats walk in geometric patterns Drugs found in nature,... Read Adriano Sack's posts on the Penguin Blog.
Curiouser and curiouser fun and fascinating facts from the world of drugs. Foll... |
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106,09 zł |
Approaches to Substance Abuse and Addiction in Education Communities : A Guide to Practices that Support Recovery in Adolescents and Young Adults
ISBN: 9780789036964 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is designed to increase the awareness among mental health professionals and educators about the potential sources of support for students struggling with substance abuse, addiction and compulsive behaviors. The book includes a description of the scope of the problem of substance abuse in high schools and colleges, followed by sections describing recovery high schools and collegiate recovery communities. A further unique component of this book is the inclusion of material from the adolescents and young adults whose lives have been changed by these programs. This book was... This book is designed to increase the awareness among mental health professionals and educators about the potential sources of support for students... |
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709,67 zł |
Approaches to Substance Abuse and Addiction in Education Communities: A Guide to Practices That Support Recovery in Adolescents and Young Adults
ISBN: 9780789036971 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is designed to increase the awareness among mental health professionals and educators about the potential sources of support for students struggling with substance abuse, addiction and compulsive behaviors. The book includes a description of the scope of the problem of substance abuse in high schools and colleges, followed by sections describing recovery high schools and collegiate recovery communities. A further unique component of this book is the inclusion of material from the adolescents and young adults whose lives have been changed by these programs. This book was... This book is designed to increase the awareness among mental health professionals and educators about the potential sources of support for students... |
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278,55 zł |
Serious Shopping : Psychotherapy and Consumerism
ISBN: 9781853434839 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The stereotype of those who indulge in the practice of addictive shopping is usually of women. This book presents a starker reality. The contributers convey something of the desperation of the experience while Adrienne Baker considers the concept of addiction in relation to shopping.
The stereotype of those who indulge in the practice of addictive shopping is usually of women. This book presents a starker reality. The contributers ...
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117,44 zł |
Stages and Pathways of Drug Involvement: Examining the Gateway Hypothesis
ISBN: 9780521783491 / Angielski / Twarda / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book represents a systematic and broadly based discussion and evaluation of the Gateway Hypothesis, according to which young people who progress in the use of drugs follow a specific sequence from the use of tobacco or alcohol to the use of illicit drugs to the use of illicit drugs other than marijuana. This volume evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the hypothesis from multiple disciplinary perspectives representing sociology, psychology, epidemiology, statistics, animal behavior, molecular biology and prevention.
This book represents a systematic and broadly based discussion and evaluation of the Gateway Hypothesis, according to which young people who progress ...
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334,99 zł |
Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom
ISBN: 9780521623001 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This broad-ranging and innovative investigation explores the ways in which both authorities and individual consumers have defined and managed the pleasures and dangers of alcoholic beverages. It explores the question of free will versus determinism and how it has been challenged by ideas about addiction, morality and psychology during the past 150 years. This book is based on years of original research and draws on sources from the United States, UK, Canada and elsewhere and will appeal to readers in legal studies, addiction studies, criminology, sociology and psychology.
This broad-ranging and innovative investigation explores the ways in which both authorities and individual consumers have defined and managed the plea...
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504,32 zł |
Psychology of Netaholics
ISBN: 9781594547430 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The year 1998 witnessed the birth of a new disorder - Internet Addiction Disorder. What are we to make of this new disorder? What precisely, does "addiction" mean? Can individuals really become addicted to the Internet? This book examines these questions f
The year 1998 witnessed the birth of a new disorder - Internet Addiction Disorder. What are we to make of this new disorder? What precisely, does "add...
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304,85 zł |
A Clinician's Guide to 12-Step Recovery
ISBN: 9780393705461 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most rehabilitation programs offer both twelve-step treatment and psychotherapy, but they are not integrated either in theory or in practice. While intuitively there would appear to be a clear connection between these two areas, in fact, they remain uncomfortable allies, and sometimes not even that.
People in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction are often wary of professionals who have no personal experience of addiction and recovery. For a novice therapist (and more than a few seasoned clinicians) there are few more dreaded questions to be asked by an addicted client than, "Are you in... Most rehabilitation programs offer both twelve-step treatment and psychotherapy, but they are not integrated either in theory or in practice. While in...
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176,60 zł |
Surviving Addictions: Confessions of a Recovered Addict
ISBN: 9781847476630 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Description Following over twenty years of abstinence from drink and drugs, much contemplation of natural phenomena, prayer and meditation, Jack Llewellyn describes with great candour his slippery descent into addiction - to sex as well as alcohol and drugs - and his subsequent liberation from total dependency and looming death. Description Following over twenty years of abstinence from drink and drugs, much contemplation of natural phenomena, prayer and meditation, Jack... |
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105,83 zł |
Thinking Simply about Addiction: A Handbook for Recovery
ISBN: 9781585426881 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This profound yet practical guide by a veteran recovery professional pinpoints why addictions are so tenacious; how everyone suffers from them to a greater or lesser extent; and the true, time-tested steps toward freeing oneself from addiction.
This profound yet practical guide by a veteran recovery professional pinpoints why addictions are so tenacious; how everyone suffers from them to a gr...
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106,09 zł |