Substance Abuse Intervention, Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Systems Change: Helping Individuals, Families, and Groups to Empower Themselves
(Part of the Empowering the Powerless: A Social Work Series 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 Guti rrez 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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231102364
ISBN13:9780231102360
Release Date:August 2001
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:480 Pages
Weight:1.80 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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Intervention
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I appreciate all that this book has taught me about abuse. Its best part though is teaching how to overcome and intervene.
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