Promoting Self-Change from Problem Substance Use: Practical Implications for Policy, Prevention and Treatment

✍ Scribed by H. Klingemann, L. Sobell, J. Barker, J. Blomqvist, W. Cloud, T. Ellinstad, D. Finfgeld, R. Granfield, D. Hodgins, G. Hunt, C. Junker, F. Moggi, S. Peele, R. Smart, M. Sobell, J. Tucker (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 221
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For many years, what has been known about recovery from addictive behaviors has come solely from treatment studies. Only recently has the study of recoveries in the absence of formal treatment or self-help groups provided an alternative source of information.
This book on the process of self-change from addictive behaviors is the first of its kind, as it presents more than research findings. Rather, it presents the process of self-change from several different perspectives - environmental, cross-cultural, prevention and interventions at both societal and individual level. It provides strategies for how health care practitioners and government policy makers alike can aid and foster self-change. Directions for future research priorities are also presented.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-4
The phenomenon of self-change: overview and conceptual issues....Pages 5-35
Self-change from alcohol and drug abuse: often cited classics....Pages 37-63
Natural recovery or recovery without treatment from alcohol and drug problems, as seen from survey data....Pages 65-76
Self-change among gamblers and cigarette smokers....Pages 77-90
Hostile and favorable societal climates for self-change: some lessons for policy makers....Pages 91-109
One way to leave your lover: the role of treatment in changing addictive behavior....Pages 111-122
Role of minimum interventions in the natural recovery process....Pages 123-136
Taking the treatment to the community....Pages 137-150
Environmental influences in natural resolution: bringing in context....Pages 151-166
Natural recovery in cross-cultural perspective....Pages 167-189
Concluding comments: what I would tell my neighbor....Pages 191-196
Self-change toolbox: tools, tips, and other information and resources for assisting self-change....Pages 197-213

✦ Subjects

Psychology, general; Health Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Public Health