Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

Responding to Drinking Problems book cover

1st Edition

Responding to Drinking Problems

By Stan Shaw, Alan Cartwright, Terry Spratley, Judith Harwin Copyright 1978
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
In the 1970s family doctors, social workers, researchers and administrators had been aware of the inadequacy of the response to drinking problems for some time. However, there had been no systematic examination of why such agents felt negatively about drinkers and disinclined to respond to them. Originally published in 1978, this book develops a radical new perspective on the prevalence and... Read more

Acknowledgements.  Introduction.  Part One – Alcohol: Its Uses and Abuses  1. The Good and Bad Effects of Alcohol  2. Concepts of Alcohol Abuse  Part Two – Drinking Problems: Epidemiology and Etiology  3. The Prevalence and Causes of Drinking Problems  Part Three – The Existing Response  4. Concepts of the Response  5. Seeking, Refusing or Hiding from Help  6. The Anxieties of General Community Agents  7. Role Insecurity and Low Therapeutic Commitment  Part Four – Theories About Improving the Response  8. Previous Theories about Improving the Response  9. Developing Role Security and Therapeutic Commitment  Part Five – Experiments in Improving the Response  10. The CAT Training Courses: Improving the Recognition of Drinking Problems  11. The CAT Consultation Service: Improving the Response to Individual Clients with Drinking Problems  12. A Case Illustration of the CAT Consultation Service  Part Six – Conclusion  13. Towards a Community Response.  References.  Index.

Biography

Stan Shaw, Alan Cartwright, Terry Spratley, Judith Harwin

Add to Cart