Circles of Recovery - Self-Help Organizations for Addictions

Klappentext Circles of Recovery provides an integrative, international review of self-help organizations for addiction recovery. Zusammenfassung Circles of Recovery provides an integrative! international review of self-help organizations! focusing on efficacy! effect on individual members! and practical strategies for how individual clinicians and treatment systems can interact with self-help organizations to improve outcomes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. Definitions, scope, and origin of the health-related self-help group movement; 2. An international tour of addiction-related mutual help organizations; 3. Does self-help group participation produce positive substance abuse, psychiatric, and medical outcomes?; 4. A different perspective on change in self-help organizations: spirituality, identity, life stories, friendship networks, and politicization; 5. Government, health care organization, and clinical interactions with self-help organizations; Epilogue: summing up, moving forward; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Humphreys, Keith Humphreys, Keith (Stanford University School of Me Humphreys, Humphreys Keith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521176378
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17637-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: International Research Monogra; International Research Monogra; International Research Monographs in the Addictions
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, Addiction & therapy, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Addiction and therapy, Health systems & services, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, Health systems and services