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…
Figure 14.1: A meeting of the Washingtonians. Courtesy Illinois Addiction Study Archives. Change processes What are the essential processes through which AA helps members change? Although the answer to this…
