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Handbook of Substance Abuse: Neurobehavioral Pharmacology
ISBN: 9780306458842 / Angielski / Twarda / 602 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A review of the literature pertaining to the neurobehavioral pharmacology of abusable drugs, this is the only book to survey each of the eleven classes of addictive drugs from the perspectives of neurological, behavioral, and clinical pharmacology.
Designed to serve as a companion text to the DSM-IV manual, the Handbook provides comprehensive information about each drug and drug class having abuse potential with respect to their pharmaceutical mechanisms and actions. A review of the literature pertaining to the neurobehavioral pharmacology of abusable drugs, this is the only book to survey each of the eleven classe...
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Building Healthy Individuals, Families, and Communities: Creating Lasting Connections
ISBN: 9780306463181 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Youth have nearly always exhibited behaviors that frustrate adults. It can be diffi cult to understand why young people engage in risky or destructive behavior, and it is challenging to develop strategies to encourage more healthy and responsible behavior among our youth. However, it is helpful to realize that despite the fact that large numbers of youth engage in frightful and destructive behaviors for pe riods of time during adolescence and early adulthood, a large proportion of youth find a way not only to survive but also to bounce back and contribute significantly to the furtherance of...
Youth have nearly always exhibited behaviors that frustrate adults. It can be diffi cult to understand why young people engage in risky or destructive...
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Research on Alcoholism Treatment: Methodology Psychosocial Treatment Selected Treatment Topics Research Priorities
ISBN: 9780306472589 / Angielski / Twarda / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the President of the Research Society on Alcoholism The sixteenth volume of Recent Developments in Alcoholism contains the latest information on the field of alcoholism treatment research. This scholarly volume includes comprehensive reviews of the methodologies available to evaluate treatment outcome, state-of-the art psychosocial interventions, and recent advances in pharmacological adjuncts to treatment that are currently available and those on the brink of application. Other sections of the book address special issues in the treatment of alcohol dependence, including the treatment of...
From the President of the Research Society on Alcoholism The sixteenth volume of Recent Developments in Alcoholism contains the latest information on ...
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Before It's Too Late: Working with Substance Abuse in the Family
ISBN: 9780393700688 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book shows therapists how to tackle the dilemma of the presenting problem not being the 'real' problem and presents a variety of step-by-step models for working with the substance-abusing family.
This book shows therapists how to tackle the dilemma of the presenting problem not being the 'real' problem and presents a variety of step-by-step mod...
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Working with the Problem Drinker: A Solutionfocused Approach
ISBN: 9780393701340 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors successfully utilize solution-focused therapy in their work with problem drinkers, but it is their philosophy of working with clients--and within clients' belief systems--to encourage change that is at the heart of their model. The model, grounded in the philosophy of solution-focused brief therapy, introduces a paradigmatic change in the approach to substance abuse treatment. Rather than treating a problem drinker, Berg and Miller work with clients to treat problem drinking. The authors' refreshing blend of respect for their clients and optimism about their ability to stop...
The authors successfully utilize solution-focused therapy in their work with problem drinkers, but it is their philosophy of working with clients--and...
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Illegal Leisure: The Normalization of Adolescent Recreational Drug Use
ISBN: 9780415158107 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text offers an insight into the role drug use now plays in British youth culture. The authors present the results of a five-year longitudinal study into young people and drug taking. They argue that drugs are no longer used as a form of rebellious behaviour, but have been subsumed into wider, acceptable leisure activities. The new generation of drug user can no longer be seen as mad or bad or from subcultural worlds - they are ordinary and everywhere. Illustrated throughout with interview material, the text shows how drug consumption has become normalized, and provides a well-informed...
This text offers an insight into the role drug use now plays in British youth culture. The authors present the results of a five-year longitudinal stu...
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Drug Treatment: What Works?
ISBN: 9780415268165 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Britain, like almost everywhere else, has a burgeoning drug problem. Finding ways of dealing with this problem is a major platform of government policy and a great deal has been made of the impact of treatment on drug users. Drug Treatment: What Works? is a cutting edge survey of the latest developments in these treatments, and it sets out to ask some of the crucial questions in the treatment of drug abusers; including:
* Which treatments work with what sorts of abusers? * What are the key indicators of likely success? * Does coercion work or must treatment be freely... Britain, like almost everywhere else, has a burgeoning drug problem. Finding ways of dealing with this problem is a major platform of government polic...
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Drug Treatment: What Works?
ISBN: 9780415268172 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Britain, like almost everywhere else, has a burgeoning drug problem. Finding ways of dealing with this problem is a major platform of government policy and a great deal has been made of the impact of treatment on drug users. Drug Treatment: What Works? is a cutting edge survey of the latest developments in these treatments, and it sets out to ask some of the crucial questions in the treatment of drug abusers; including:
* Which treatments work with what sorts of abusers? * What are the key indicators of likely success? * Does coercion work or must treatment be freely... Britain, like almost everywhere else, has a burgeoning drug problem. Finding ways of dealing with this problem is a major platform of government polic...
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Psychosocial Treatments
ISBN: 9780415947817 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on current psychosocial therapies utilized in the treatment of substance use disorders. The last decade has been witness to considerable improvements in the understanding, development, and application of several different psychosocial intervention techniques that have been shown effective in controlled research studies. This book includes recent articles discussing elements of each of the several commonly used psychosocial interventions. These areas of psychosocial interventions include relapse prevention therapy, community reinforcement, voucher-based programs, self-help...
This book focuses on current psychosocial therapies utilized in the treatment of substance use disorders. The last decade has been witness to consider...
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Treating the Alcoholic: A Developmental Model of Recovery
ISBN: 9780471161639 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book that revolutionized the psychotherapist's approach to treating alcoholism
When it was first published in 1985, Treating the Alcoholic challenged traditional psychotherapeutic approaches to alcoholism treatment. Since then, thousands of mental health professionals, using Dr. Stephanie Brown's treatment model, have found renewed faith in their ability to help alcoholic patients achieve lasting recovery. The book begins by studying the experiences of people who have stopped drinking and provides firsthand descriptions of the inevitable emotional, physical, and... The book that revolutionized the psychotherapist's approach to treating alcoholism
When it was first published in 1985, Treating the Alco... |
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Psychotherapy, Psychological Treatments and the Addictions
ISBN: 9780521556750 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Treatment of an ever increasing variety of addictive behaviors owes much to a wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches that have tended to roll continuously in and out of fashion. Over recent years, an initiative has been established to appraise critically the use of psychotherapy in all areas of psychiatry. This work serves as a timely review of psychological treatments in the addictions field and provides a rare combination of expertise both from addiction specialists and those who use psychotherapeutic approaches to solve a wide range of personal problems. Its coverage includes...
Treatment of an ever increasing variety of addictive behaviors owes much to a wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches that have tended to roll cont...
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Treatment Matching in Alcoholism
ISBN: 9780521651127 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Project MATCH was a large-scale treatment evaluation study established by the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse to determine whether the treatment of alcoholism could be improved by matching different types of alcoholics with the most appropriate kinds of treatment. This book, edited by the two principal investigators, is the first comprehensive report of Project MATCH, the largest alcoholism treatment study ever conducted. It describes the rationale, methods, results and implications of the study, and presents new findings about how treatment works, for whom it is most effective, and...
Project MATCH was a large-scale treatment evaluation study established by the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse to determine whether the treatm...
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Measuring Community Indicators: A Systems Approach to Drug and Alcohol Problems
ISBN: 9780761906841 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This useful volume provides communities and researchers with the necessary analytic and practical tools for assessing their programmes.
This useful volume provides communities and researchers with the necessary analytic and practical tools for assessing their programmes.
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Substance Abuse, Family Violence and Child Welfare: Bridging Perspectives
ISBN: 9780761914570 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contains nine contributions which address prevention of and treatment for children and their parents in abusive family situations. Chapters address issues including the history of abusive behavior and intoxication; research on drug-exposed children in the child welfare system; the legislative and po
Contains nine contributions which address prevention of and treatment for children and their parents in abusive family situations. Chapters address is...
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Substance Abuse, Family Violence and Child Welfare: Bridging Perspectives
ISBN: 9780761914587 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Substance Abuse, Family Violence and Child Welfare'. Studies the consequences, good and bad, for children, of being processed through the child welfare system as a consequence of family violence and substance abuse.
'Substance Abuse, Family Violence and Child Welfare'. Studies the consequences, good and bad, for children, of being processed through the child welfa...
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Managed Care and the Treatment of Chronic Illness
ISBN: 9780761919674 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Managed Care and the Treatment of Chronic Illness is a unique presentation of available research in the treatment and outcome of care for the chronically ill patients in managed care settings. Chronic illnesses require frequent and specialized treatment for patients - anathema to the short-term and cost-effective objectives of MCOs. Professor Christianson, aided by five expert collaborators, addresses MCO strengths and issues in treating these patients, looks at research results comparing treatment in MCOs versus fee-for-service medicine, and considers the various management... Managed Care and the Treatment of Chronic Illness is a unique presentation of available research in the treatment and outcome of care for th... |
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Smoking: Risk, Perception, and Policy
ISBN: 9780761923800 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'This important book reveals why the young start smoking and why, as adults, they regret having started. It is a great contribution to helping end a national epidemic' - Cheryl Healton, President/CEO, American Legacy Foundation 'This book is a must for everyone concerned about how to address the problem of tobacco use among young people. Virtually all new smokers are children. Many of them are in their early teens and one out of every three children who begin to smoke will die prematurely because of their use of tobacco. This book includes the most objective, thorough and authoritative...
'This important book reveals why the young start smoking and why, as adults, they regret having started. It is a great contribution to helping end a n...
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Smoking: Risk, Perception, and Policy
ISBN: 9780761923817 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a counter-view, based on a survey of several thousand young persons and adults, probing attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and perceptions of risk associated with smoking. The authors agree that young smokers give little or no thought to health risks or the problems of addiction. The survey data contradicts the model of informed, rational choice and underscores the need for aggressive policies to counter tobacco firmsOCO marketing and promotional efforts and to restrict youth access to tobacco.a"
This book presents a counter-view, based on a survey of several thousand young persons and adults, probing attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and percep... |
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Pain and Its Relief Without Addiction: Clinical Issues in the Use of Opioids and Other Analgesics
ISBN: 9780789001269 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pain and Its Relief Without Addiction will help people in pain understand why their pain is not always adequately relieved, as well as help reverse the failure of current medical practice to routinely alleviate pain. As noted by a 1992 publication of the United States Department of Health Services, this devastating trend contributes to unnecessary discomfort, longer recovery periods, and compromised patient outcomes. By reading this book, frustrated physicians and, perhaps more importantly, persons in pain can acquire a better understanding of the nature of pain, its connection to the...
Pain and Its Relief Without Addiction will help people in pain understand why their pain is not always adequately relieved, as well as help reverse th...
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Chemical Dependency Treatment: Innovative Group Approaches
ISBN: 9780789003546 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Overviews methods and benefits of group approaches for chemical dependency treatment, with material on early intervention and linking clients to outpatient care, and chapters describing models of group treatment with populations including gays and lesbians, HIV-infected inner city clients, and chemically dependent cluster-B personality disordered m
Overviews methods and benefits of group approaches for chemical dependency treatment, with material on early intervention and linking clients to outpa...
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