The authors of this well-written and uncompromising work are experts in the fields of biobehaviorial health, behavioural biology and addiction psychology. They review the severe problems caused by smoking and examine individual and public health approaches to reducing smoking and its attendant health problems. Cigarettes, Nicotine and Health is written in a scholarly yet accessible format that brings the latest work of these high calibre research experts to students and academics. This work will be of interest to students in drugs and health psychology courses, as well as nurses, psychologists and health promotion researchers. * a biobehavioral framework gives equal emphasis to psychosocial and biological factors * interdisciplinary scope provides a broad perspective from disciplines as diverse as social and cognitive psychology, behavioral pharmacology, physiology, epidemiology, history, medicine, and public health policy
This volume presents a culturally informed framework for understanding and treating substance abuse problems. From expert contributors, chapters cover specific ethno-cultural groups in the United States, including Americans of African, Native American, Latino, European and Middle Eastern descent.
Substance use and abuse are two of the more frequent psychological problems clinicians encounter, both in isolation and in the context of other disorders. Mainstream approaches focus on the biological and psychological factors underpinning drug abuse, but to fully appreciate the issue, we also need to attend to the social, historical, and cultural ......
Substance use and abuse are two of the more frequent psychological problems clinicians encounter, both in isolation and in the context of other disorders. Mainstream approaches focus on the biological and psychological factors underpinning drug abuse, but to fully appreciate the issue, we also need to attend to the social, historical, and cultural ......
Family relationships change dramatically when one or more members stops drinking. Far from offering a "quick fix" to family problems, in fact, the first years of sobriety are often marked by continuing tension. This text covers this topic.
Working with clients who abuse drugs or alcohol poses formidable challenges to the clinician. Addicted persons are often confronting multiple, complex problems, from the denial of the addiction itself, to legacies of early trauma or abuse, this text covers this topic.
What's Wrong with Addiction? explores the ways in which our views of addiction categorize certain ways of being as unnatural, diseased, and self-destructive, often working to reinforce existing social hierarchies. Under the rubric of addiction, pleasure and desire are demonized, while the addict is viewed as damaged and in need of physical and ......
This practical handbook gathers addiction recovery tools (both Eastern and Western) into one single volume and provides practitioners with an easy to read, 'how-to' book on when and how to use the different recovery tools available. For each given tool, the chapter will address the following questions: * How does it work? * Why does it work and ......
This practical handbook gathers addiction recovery tools (both Eastern and Western) into one single volume and provides practitioners with an easy to read, 'how-to' book on when and how to use the different recovery tools available. For each given tool, the chapter will address the following questions: * How does it work? * Why does it work and ......
