Heather / Stockwell The Essential Handbook of Treatment and Prevention of Alcohol Problems

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-470-86297-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten, E-Book

The last three decades have seen an explosion of social,psychological and clinical research to identify effectivestrategies to prevent and treat alcohol-related problems. This"Essential Handbook" contains an updatedselection of reviews of "what works" drawn from thecritically acclaimed International Handbook of AlcoholDependence and Problems.
Selected specifically for health and other professionals, whoneed to provide effective responses in their work, theseauthoritative, science-based reviews are a distillation of the morepractical elements, designed to save time for the busypractitioner.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heather, Nick

Stockwell, Tim

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Editors.
List of Contributors.
Preface.
PART I: TREATMENT AND RECOVERY (Editor: NickHeather).
Editor's Introduction.
Chapter 1: The Effectiveness of Treatment (Janice M. Brown).
Chapter 2: Assessment for Brief Intervention and Treatment(Malissa Yang & Harvey Skinner).
Chapter 3: Alcohol Withdrawal and Detoxification (DuncanRaistrick).
Chapter 4: Pharmacological Treatments (Jonathan Chick).
Chapter 5: Cognitive-behavioural Alcohol Treatment (George A.Parks, G. Alan Marlatt & Britt K. Anderson).
Chapter 6: Relapse Prevention Therapy (George A. Parks, Britt K.Anderson & G. Alan Marlatt).
Chapter 7: Motivational Interviewing (Stephen Rollnick &Jeff Allison).
Chapter 8: Brief Interventions (Nick Heather).
Chapter 9: Treating Comorbidity of Alcohol Problems andPsychiatric Disorder (Kim T. Mueser & David Kavanagh).
Chapter 10: Natural Recovery from Alcohol Problems (Harald K.-H.Klingemann).
Chapter 11: Alcoholics Anonymous and Other Mutual Aid Groups(Chad Emrick).
PART II: PREVENTION OF ALCOHOL PROBLEMS (Editor: TimStockwell).
Editor's Introduction.
Chapter 12: Effects of Price and Taxation (EsaÖsterberg).
Chapter 13: Controls on the Physical Availability of Alcohol(Tim Stockwell & Paul Gruenewald).
Chapter 14: Creating Safer Drinking Environments (Ross Homel,Gillian McIlwain & Russell Carvolth).
Chapter 15: Prevention of Alcohol-related Road Crashes (A. JamesMcKnight & Robert B. Voas).
Chapter 16: Prevention at the Local Level (Andrew J. Treno &Harold D. Holder).
Chapter 17: Alcohol Education in Schools (Richard Midford &Nyanda McBride).
Chapter 18: Mass Media Marketing and Advocacy to ReduceAlcohol-related Harm (Kevin Boots & Richard Midford).
Chapter 19: Alcohol Advertising and Sponsorship: CommercialFreedom or Control in the Public Interest? (Linda Hill & SallyCasswell).
Author Index.
Subject Index.

Über Autor(innen)

After working for ten years as a clinical psychologist in the UKNational Health Service, in 1979 Nick Heather developed andled the Addictive Behaviours Research Group at the University ofDundee. In 1987 he became founding Director of the National Drugand Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New SouthWales,Australia. He returned to the UK at the beginning of 1994 andis now Emeritus Professor of Alcohol and Other Drug Studies atNorthumbria University. He has published many scientific articles,books, book chapters and other publications, mostly in the area ofaddictions and with an emphasis on the treatment of alcoholproblems.
Tim Stockwell has been Director of the National DrugResearch Institute, Curtin University, Western Australia (formerlythe National Centre for Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse)since June 1996 and served as Deputy Director for seven years priorto that. He studied Psychology and Philosophy at Oxford University,obtained a PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, University ofLondon, and is a qualified clinical psychologist. He served asRegional Editor for Australasia of the journal Addiction for6 years and has published over 140 research papers, book chaptersand monographs, plus several books on prevention and treatmentissues. His current interests include alcohol taxation, liquorlicensing legislation and the assessment of alcohol consumption andrelated problems at the community, regional and national levels. Hehas worked as a consultant to the World Health Organization and theUnited Nations Drug Control Program.