html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 4 Social complications of drinking problems When problem drinkers are standing before them, clinicians can directly observe the problems that these patients might “carry with…
Neurological vulnerability Table 3.1 divides the factors that influence drinking problems into three levels, namely the societal, the family/community, and individual. This framework is an oversimplification in a number of…
The outermost layer of Figure 8.1 comprises informal influences on problem drinkers: the work colleague who advises that a career may be damaged if drinking is not stopped, the husband…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 9 Case-finding and intervention outside of specialty settings Specialty alcohol clinical settings are an important focus of this book and are obviously an appropriate location…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 7 Alcohol and other drug problems Alcohol is a drug (see Chapter 2) that is often used with other drugs, ranging from simple combinations, such…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 5 Physical complications of excessive drinking The physical element is an important part of a comprehensive approach to drinking problems. Helping services should be organized…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 6 Drinking problems and psychiatric disorders Anyone working in the field of drinking problems must cultivate an awareness of the range of psychiatric disorders that…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 16 Pursuing treatment outcomes other than abstinence For much of the 1960s and into the 1980s, the alcohol treatment field was riven by the “controlled…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 17 Managing setbacks and challenges in treatment A novice clinician can get a false impression of how the treatment of drinking problems typically proceeds. Clinical…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 15 Religion, spirituality, and values in treatment I stopped drinking the day my son was born. Ariel’s labor was really, really difficult and she was…
