Substance Abuse Intervention, Prevention, Rehabilitation, & Systems Change Strategies - Helping Individuals, Families, &

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-231-10236-0
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 803 g

Reihe: Empowering the Powerless: A Social Work Series

This book is the first to utilize the empowerment approach of social work practice with substance-abusing clients, bridging clinical, community, and social policy approaches in order to place individual addiction in its sociopolitical context. As Lorraine Gutiérrez points out in her foreword, the book "challenges us to transform our thinking about substance abuse and move beyond our existing focus on individual deficits." Arguing that pathology-focused definitions of substance abuse tend to transform people into their problems, Freeman instead advocates for strengths-centered policies and regulations as the means to empower clients, communities, and society as a whole.

Freeman outlines basic empowerment principles and practices, then details the service delivery processes; offers a context for power, policy, and funding decisions; and examines the needs of special populations. Case examples supplement each chapter, and the final part examines four exemplary programs that demonstrate the empowerment process in action.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freeman, Edith

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gutiérrez, Lorraine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's NoteForeword, by Lorraine GutièrrezPreface and AcknowledgmentsPart 1. Foundations of Empowerment Principles and Practice in Substance Abuse Services1. Conceptual, Theoretical, and Research Issues Related to Empowerment Practice2. Understanding the Substance Abuse and Addiction Process from an Empowerment PerspectivePart 2. The Multilevel Substance Abuse Service System: A Context for Power, Policy, and Funding Decisions3. The Substance Abuse Policy and Funding Subsystem: Sociopolitical and Power Issues4. The Community Development and Primary Group Subsystem: Sources of Power, Resiliency, and Substance Abuse Prevention5. The Substance Abuse Program Subsystem: Organizational, Administrative, and Direct Service IssuesPart 3. An Empowered Substance Abuse Service Delivery Process: Expanding the Client-Centered Continuum of Care6. Intervention: An Empowerment-Based Preservice Foundation for Prevention and Rehabilitation7. Community Prevention: Empowerment, Systems Change, and Culturally Sensitive Evaluation8. Assessment: Clients as Experts on Their Experiences, Recovery Motivation, and Power Resources9. Group Approaches to Collective Empowerment in Rehab, Self-Help, and Prevention Programs10. Family-Centered Rehabilitative Services: Intergenerational and Nuclear Family Empowerment and Evaluation Strategies11. Building on Cultural Diversity in Client-Centered Individual Work: Implications for Self-Empowerment12. Phased Services During Aftercare and Termination: Evaluation of Empowerment OutcomesPart 4. Empowering, Microcosm, and Empowered Substance Abuse Programs: The Voices of Special Populations13. New Alternatives: A Drug and Alcohol Rehab Program for a Multicultural Adolescent Population14. Restore and Repair: Perinatal Rehab Services for Women and Children15. Recovery Works: Rehab Services for Adults with Dual Diagnoses16. Dareisa Rehab Services: A Culture-Specific Program for African American AdultsEpilogue. Lessons Learned from Empowerment Research: Implications for the Future of Empowerment PracticeReferencesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Edith Freeman is a professor of social work at the University of Kansas, and is the author of several books, including Substance Abuse Treatment: A Family Systems Perspective, The Addiction Process: Effective Social Work Practice, and coauthor of Social Work Practice with Black Families: A Culture Specific Approach.