This chapter focuses on the socio-cultural problems of substance abuse. Substance abuse as one kind of psychopathology is characterized, on the one hand, as strongly related to biological factors in its occurrence and manifestation and, on the other, as heavily influenced by psychological and socio...
the NHS have noalcohol rehabsin the UK; they fund patients who need alcohol rehab, but only as a last resort. Once all other cheaper treatment methods have been exhausted, they may then consider this as a valid option.
Conclusion: The results corroborate the findings from other studies wherein residents of old age homes constitute a group at risk of alcohol abuse and dependence. Alcohol problems were more the cause for, rather than the consequence of, home admission....
Teenage drinking has become one of the largest social issues among young people in America today. Although more than half of high schoolers drinks on a regular basis, the problem is that they are not aware of how dangerous alcohol can actually be. The reality is that alcohol is often the ...
In most regions, alcohol became an important item in transcultural trade and diplomacy as the frontier of White settlement advanced, and the reactions of diverse Indian* groups were often reported in more colorful detail than were other aspects of their cultures. Drunken comportment by Indians ...
内容提示: British Journal of Clinical P~chohgy (1 993), 32, 5 15-5 16 Printed in Great Britain BPS DIVISION OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Reference Library on Clinical Practice 51 5 Alcohol problems Jim Orford* School of Pychology, UniversitJ, of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham BI5 2TT, UK ...
This paper is the first summary of findings in the alcohol use domainepidemiology, treatment, and homelessness in relation to FSU immigrants in Israel. The review identifies alcohol use among recent FSU immigrants as more prevalent than among the Jewish-Israeliabsorbing society, and shows that FSU...
it is more intensive than other brief interventions.) Both 1 year and 3 years after the intervention, participants in all three groups reported drinking less often and consuming fewer drinks per drinking day compared with their drinking behavior before treatment (9,42) (see Alcohol Alert No. 36...
The evidence of this study favors the hypothesis that adolescent children living with an alcohol dependent parent have more delinquency problems than other adolescents. We did not find similar patterns of association for the internalizing symptoms, nor for aggression, once delinquency was held constant....
. Spirituality and religiousness and alcohol/other drug problems: Treatment and recovery perspectives (pp. 125-146). Binghamton, USA: Haworth Press, Inc.Worthington EL Jr, Scherer M, Cooke KL. Forgiveness in the treatment of persons with alcohol problems. Alcohol Treat Q. 2006;24(1):125-14...