Full Description
Uniting top academics, researchers, and practitioners, this contributed volume offers new perspectives on the meaning, role, and history of addiction in our society and the construction of illicit drug use as a social problem. This substantially revised second edition provides an authoritative focus on policy issues that will extend and enrich the education and on-going discussion of addiction within the social work community.
New to the second edition:
discusses the intersection of substance abuse and intimate partner violence in the lives of women seeking help
examines drug use, addiction, and the criminal justice system and how these intersect to further disadvantage those held prisoner by these challenges
recognizes the real significance of addiction for those Canadians struggling with homelessness and mental health issues
examines adolescent substance abuse
considers how some aspects of specific cultures can help prevent addiction
explores male and female differences in individual and group treatment
questions the belief that graduates of Canada's schools of social work have the competency to be addiction counsellors
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Creating a Social Work Understanding of Addiction - Rick Csiernik and William S. Rowe
Part 1: Prevention
2. Prevention as Controversy: Harm Reduction - Jim Watkin, William S. Rowe and Rick Csiernik
3. Supervised Injection Sites: Harm Reduction and Health Promotion - William S. Rowe and Cassandra Gonzalez
4. Culture as Prevention: A Case Study of Urban Canadian Jewish Male Students - Michael B. Waxman and Rick Csiernik
Part 2: Programs
5. Is Alcoholics Anonymous of Value for Social Work Practitioners? - Rick Csiernik
6. A Model for Working with Women Dealing with Child Sexual Abuse and Addiction: The Laurel Centre - Diane Hiebert-Murphy and Lee Woytkiw
7. Narrative Therapy Ideas and Practices for Working with Addiction - Laura Beres
8. Professional-Peer Co-leadership: The Elders Health Program - Debra Kostyk, Don Fuchs, Ellen Tabisz and William R. Jacyk
9. Maintaining the Continuum of Care: Arguing for Community-Based Residential Addiction Treatment Programs - Rick Csiernik
10. Does Sex Matter? Individual and Group Outcomes of Male and Female Community Treatment Clients - Jane Troller, Rick Csiernik and Steve Didham
Part 3: Populations
11. Coming Home: Rediscovering the Family in Addiction Treatment in Canada - Ramona Alaggia and Rick Csiernik
12. Patterns of Intimacy and Sexual Expression in Interaction with Addictions - Louise Osmond and Dennis Kimberley
13. The Use of Prescribed Psychotropic Drugs by Working Women - Pauline Morissette and Nicole Dedobbeleer and Emma Wilson and Rick Csiernik
14. Violent Substance Abusers in Domestic Violence Treatment - Thomas Brown, Annette Werk, Tom Caplan and Peter Seraganian
15. Multiple Barriers: The Intersection of Substance Abuse in the Lives of Women Disclosing and Seeking Help for Intimate Partner Violence - Anna Francis, Ramona Alaggia and Rick Csiernik
16. Drug Use, Addiction and the Criminal Justice System - Amber Kellen and Lois Powers
17. The Treatment of Adolescent Substance Abuse - Chris Stewart and William S. Rowe
18. The Experiences of Chinese-Canadians in Drug Treatment Programs in Vancouver - Siu-ming Kwok
19. Understanding the Ultimate Oppression: Alcohol and Drug Addiction in Native Land - Mavis Etienne and Kelly Brownbill
20. Concurrent Disorders and Social Work Intervention - Dennis Kimberley and Louise Osmond
21. Is Substance Abuse Even an Issue? Perceptions of Male and Female Community-Based Mental Health System Consumer-Survivors - Rick Csiernik
Part 4: Policy
22. Many Paths to Prohibition: Drug Policy in Canada - Rick Csiernik and Robin Koop-Watson
23. Addiction Intervention, Employability and Welfare - Carolyne Gorlick and Rick Csiernik
24. Are Social Workers Taught to Be Competent Addiction Counsellors? - Greg Graves, Rick Csiernik, Jamie Foy and Joseph Cesar
Part 5: Problem Gambling
25. Problem Gambling: Current Knowledge and Clinical Perspectives - Jeffrey Derevensky, Rina Gupta and Rick Csiernik
List of Contributing Authors
Index
Copyright Acknowledgments
