Social Work With Substance Users

Helps social workers to develop a rounded and considered approach to their practice with substances misusers.

List of contents

PART ONE: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT
A Social History of Problematic Substance Use
Anti-Discriminatory/Anti-Oppressive Practice and Partnership Working
Substances and Their Effects
PART TWO: DIVERSE POPULATIONS
Problematic Substance Use Across the Lifespan
Gender and Problematic Substance Use
Working with Criminal Justice Service Users Who Have Problematic Substance Use
Problematic Substance Use in Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Communities
Problematic Substance Use in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) Communities
PART THREE: CONCEPTS AND MODELS FOR SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
Screening Assessments
Harm Reduction, Abstinence and ¿Recovery¿
Motivational Approaches
Relapse Prevention
Brief Interventions
PART FOUR: SOCIA WORK PRACTICE SETTINGS
Working with Problematic Substance Use in Disability Practice Settings
Dual Diagnosis: Working with Co-Existing Problems in Mental-Health Practice Settings
Parental Problematic Substance Use and Working with Families
Problematic Substance Use in HealthCare Settings Pain, HIV and HCV

About the author

Anna Nelson is the programme Manager at Matua Raki, the National Addiction Workforce Development Centre in New Zealand and was formerly Senior Lecturer in Social Work at London South Bank University.

Summary

Helps social workers to develop a rounded and considered approach to their practice with substances misusers.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Nelson, Anna Kasten Nelson
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2011
• EAN: 9781848602229
• ISBN: 978-1-84860-222-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Social Work, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects