Working with Substance Users: A Practical Guide

✍ Scribed by Trudi Petersen

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 387
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Working with Substance Misusers is a practical handbook for students and those who work with people who misuse drugs or alcohol. Written by experienced teachers and clinicians, the book introduces: the substances themselves theories relevant to substance use and misuse the skills necessary to work with this client group the broad range of approaches to treatment* particular problems of specific groups.The reader is encouraged to read and reflect on the material in relation to their own practice. To help this process, each topic has an identified set of learning objectives. Activities designed to reinforce learning include discussion points, case studies, role plays and group exercises.Working with Substance Misusers makes clear the connection of theory to practice and encourages a skills-based, but reflective, approach to work in this complex field. Cutting across professional boundaries, it provides both new and more experienced practitioners with a key text.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 8
1 Some drugs of misuse......Page 28
2 Exploring substance misuse and dependence'......Page 48
3 Working effectively with substance misusers......Page 68
4 Client assessment......Page 100
5 Behavioural and cognitive behavioural approaches to substance misuse treatment......Page 117
6 Motivationally based interventions for behaviour change......Page 127
7 Brief interventions, brief interactions......Page 136
8 Harm minimisation......Page 146
9 Twelve step approaches......Page 159
10 Family interventions in substance misuse......Page 170
11 Medical approaches and prescribing: drugs......Page 179
12 Medical approaches and prescribing: alcohol......Page 191
13 Physical health problems......Page 199
14 Relapse prevention......Page 214
15 Home detoxification......Page 222
16 Complementary or alternative medicine for substance misuse......Page 231
17 A suitable case for treatment......Page 240
18 Coercion and the criminal justice system......Page 248
19 Health promotion, public health and substance misuse......Page 259
20 Organisation of services – putting it all together......Page 269
21 Evaluating treatment services......Page 279
22 Dual diagnosis......Page 292
23 Women and alcohol......Page 301
4 Drug use and women’s reproductive health......Page 310
25 Young people......Page 321
26 Anti-discriminatory practice in substance misuse work......Page 330
27 Substance misuse and older people......Page 342
28 Anabolic androgenic steroid misusers......Page 352
29 Case studies......Page 364