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'Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and Its Consequences' is one of the AASWSW's Grand Challenges for Social Work. This book describes current strategies for achieving the ambitious goals identified in this Grand Challenge. It was first published as a special issue of the
Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions.
List of contents
Introduction: Implementing the Grand Challenge of Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and Its Consequences
1. The Grand Challenge of Reducing Gender and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Service Access and Needs Among Adults with Alcohol Misuse
2. Impact of Race on the Implementation of Empirically Supported Treatments in Substance Abuse Treatment
3. Recovery Schools Rise to the Challenge: Shifting Alcohol Norms and Behaviors in Youth and Emerging Adults
4. Empowerment in Coalitions Targeting Underage Drinking: Differential Effects of Organizational Characteristics for Volunteers and Staff
5. What Lies Beneath: Trauma Events, PTSD, and Alcohol Misuse in Driving Under the Influence Program Clients
6. Technology-Based Interventions and Trainings to Reduce the Escalation and Impact of Alcohol Problems
7. Effects and Durability of an SBIRT Training Curriculum for First-Year MSW Students
8. SBIRT Training in Social Work Education: Evaluating Change Using Standardized Patient Simulation
9. Evaluation of Alcohol Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Training for Social Workers
10. Complementing SBIRT for Alcohol Misuse with SBIRT for Trauma: A Feasibility Study
11. NIAAA and the Global Challenge: An Interview with Dr. Margaret (Peggy) Murray, Director, Global Alcohol Research Program, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
12. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: An Interview with Dr. Shauna Acquavita, Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati
About the author
Audrey Begun is a social work professor at Ohio State University, USA.
Diana DiNitto is a social work professor at The University of Texas-Austin, USA.
S. Lala Straussner is a social work professor at New York University, USA.
Summary
‘Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and Its Consequences’ is one of the AASWSW’s Grand Challenges for Social Work. This book describes current strategies for achieving the ambitious goals identified in this Grand Challenge. It was first published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions.
