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This book is the first to utilize the empowerment approach of social work practice with substance-abusing clients, bridging clinical, community, and social policy approaches in order to place individual addiction in its sociopolitical context. As Lorraine Gutiérrez points out in her foreword, the book "challenges us to transform our thinking about substance abuse and move beyond our existing focus on individual deficits." Arguing that pathology-focused definitions of substance abuse tend to transform people into their problems, Freeman instead advocates for strengths-centered policies and regulations as the means to empower clients, communities, and society as a whole.
Freeman outlines basic empowerment principles and practices, then details the service delivery processes; offers a context for power, policy, and funding decisions; and examines the needs of special populations. Case examples supplement each chapter, and the final part examines four exemplary programs that demonstrate the empowerment process in action.
List of contents
Foreword by Lorraine Gutièrrez
Epilogue
Lessons Learned from Empowerment Research: Implications for the Future of Empowerment Practice
Index
Part 1
Foundations of Empowerment Principles and Practice in Substance Abuse Services
Chapter 1
Conceptual, Theoretical, and Research Issues Related to Empowerment Practice
Chapter 2
Understanding the Substance Abuse and Addiction Process from an Empowerment Perspective
Part 2
The Multilevel Substance Abuse Service System: A Context for Power, Policy, and Funding Decisions
The Substance Abuse Policy and Funding Subsystem: Sociopolitical and Power Issues
Part 3
An Empowered Substance Abuse Service Delivery Process: Expanding the Client-Centered Continuum of Care
Chapter 4
The Community Development and Primary Group Subsystem: Sources of Power, Resiliency, and Substance Abuse Prevention
Part 4
Empowering, Microcosm, and Empowered Substance Abuse Programs: The Voices of Special Populations
Chapter 5
The Substance Abuse Program Subsystem: Organizational, Administrative, and Direct Service Issues
Chapter 6
Intervention: An Empowerment-Based Preservice Foundation for Prevention and Rehabilitation
Chapter 7
Community Prevention: Empowerment, Systems Change, and Culturally Sensitive Evaluation
Chapter 8
Assessment: Clients as Experts on Their Experiences, Recovery Motivation, and Power Resources
Chapter 9
Group Approaches to Collective Empowerment in Rehab, Self-Help, and Prevention Programs
Chapter 10
Family-Centered Rehabilitative Services: Intergenerational and Nuclear Family Empowerment and Evaluation Strategies
Chapter 11
Building on Cultural Diversity in Client-Centered Individual Work: Implications for Self-Empowerment
Chapter 12
Phased Services During Aftercare and Termination: Evaluation of Empowerment Outcomes
Chapter 13
New Alternatives: A Drug and Alcohol Rehab Program for a Multicultural Adolescent Population
Chapter 14
Restore and Repair: Perinatal Rehab Services for Women and Children
Chapter 15
Recovery Works: Rehab Services for Adults with Dual Diagnoses
Chapter 16
Dareisa Rehab Services: A Culture-Specific Program for African American Adults
Chapter 3
About the author
Edith Freeman. Foreword by Lorraine Gutiérrez
Summary
Freeman advocates strengths-centered policies as the means to empower clients and communities. Supplemented by case examples, this book outlines basic empowerment principles and practices, offers a context for power, policy, and funding decisions, and examines the needs of special populations.
