Substance Abuse Intervention, Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Systems Change: Helping Individuals, Families, and Groups to Empower Themselves

by Edith M. Freeman

This book is the first to utilize the empowerment approach of social work practice with substance-abusing clients, bridging clinical, community, and social policy approaches in order to place individual addiction in its sociopolitical context. As Lorraine Guti rrez points out in her foreword, the book "challenges us to transform our thinking about substance abuse and move beyond our existing focus on individual deficits." Arguing that pathology-focused...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231102364
• ISBN13: 9780231102360
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Intervention

I appreciate all that this book has taught me about abuse. Its best part though is teaching how to overcome and intervene.