Edwards' Treatment of Drinking Problems
A Guide for the Helping Professions

This book presents state-of-the-art, accessible reviews of the science of alcohol treatment and guidance for the management of clinical situations.

Keith Humphreys (Author), Anne Lingford-Hughes (Author)

9781107519527, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 April 2016

274 pages, 14 b/w illus. 27 tables
23.4 x 15.7 x 1.4 cm, 0.48 kg

Presenting state-of-the-art, accessible reviews of the expanding science of alcohol treatment, integrated with down to earth, practical guides to the management of a wide range of clinical situations, this new edition is compassionate toward patients, optimistic about treatment, and candid about the clinical and professional challenges embedded in the treatment endeavour. The coverage updates the science that has occurred in the half-decade since the last edition, most notably in the areas of neuroscience, neuroimaging and pharmacotherapy, and includes expanded discussion of historical and public policy forces that have shaped the alcohol treatment field. The book recognizes that drinking problems occur across all social structures and cannot be neatly confined to the specialist addiction treatment sector. This text is relevant to all those working to help those with a drinking problem, meeting the needs of general medical practitioners, psychiatrists and other medical specialists, nurses, psychotherapists, counselors, psychologists, alcohol support workers, social workers and occupational therapists, amongst others.

A note on the sixth edition
Introduction
Part I. Background to Understanding: 1. Definitions of drinking problems
2. Alcohol as a drug
3. Causes of drinking problems
4. Social complications of drinking problems
5. Physical complications of excessive drinking
6. Drinking problems and psychiatric disorders
7. Alcohol and other drug problems
Part II. Treatment: Context and Content: 8. Introduction, settings and roles
9. Case-finding and intervention in non-specialty settings
10. Assessment of patients with drinking problems
11. Withdrawal states and their clinical management
12. The therapeutic relationship
13. Specialist treatment of drinking problems
14. Alcoholics Anonymous and other mutual-help organizations
15. Religion, spirituality and values in the treatment of drinking problems
16. Pursuing treatment outcomes other than abstinence
17. Managing setbacks and challenges in the treatment of drinking problems
Epilogue
Index.

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH]