Research Catalog

Title

Evaluation of the alcoholic : implications for research, theory, and treatment : proceedings of a conference, October 12-13, 1979, Farmington, Connecticut / sponsored by the Alcohol Research Center of the University of Connecticut Health Center and the National Research Centers Branch, NIAAA ; edited by Roger E. Meyer ... [et. al.]

Publication

Rockville, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism ; Washington, D.C. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [1981].

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Additional Authors

• Meyer, Roger E.
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (U.S.)
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (U.S.). National Research Centers Branch
• University of Connecticut. Alcohol Research Center

Description

xxii, 409 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

• Research monograph ; no. 5
• DHHS publication ; no. (ADM) 81-1033

Uniform Title

• DHHS publication no. (ADM) 81-1033.
• Research monograph (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (U.S.)) no. 5.

Subject

• Alcoholism
• Alcoholism > United States > Congresses
• United States

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• S/N 017-024-01077-4

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction / Roger E. Meyer -- Editor's Comment / Thomas F. Babor -- Conference Participants -- Session I: Problems of Quantification -- The NCA Diagnostic Criteria: 10 Years Later / E. Mansell Pattison -- The Drinking History: Problems of Validity and Reliability / G. Alan Marlatt -- Biochemical Alternatives to the Drinking History / Spencer Shaw -- Discussion of Papers by Pattison, Marlatt, and Shaw / Thomas F. Babor -- Session II: Alcoholism and Psychopathology -- Depression and Alcoholism / Remi J. Cadoret -- Alcoholism and the "Alcoholic" Personality / Raymond M. Costello -- The Diagnosis of Alcoholism after DSM III / Lee N. Robins -- Discussion of Papers by Cadoret, Costello, and Robins / Bernard Glueck -- Session III: Alcoholic Pedigree, Sex Differences, and the Problem of Risk -- Family Histories of Male and Female Alcoholics / Donald W. Goodwin -- Some Recent Findings in the Study of Genotype-Environment Interaction in Alcoholism / Theodore Reich, C. Robert Cloninger, Collins Lewis, and John Rice -- Minimal Brain Dysfunction as an Etiological Predisposition to Alcoholism / Ralph E. Tarter -- Discussion of Papers by Woodwin, Hesselbrock, Reich, and Tarter / James R. Stabenau -- Session IV: Behavioral Assessment of the Alcoholic -- Loss of Control and the Problem of Craving / Arnold M. Ludwig -- The Role of Aversive Consequences in the Control of Alcohol and Drug Self-Administration / Nancy K. Mello -- Prospects for a Behavioral Approach to the Diagnosis of the Alcoholic / Peter E. Nathan -- Discussion of Papers by Ludwig, Mello, and Nathan / Robert E. Meyer -- Alcohol Use and the Risk of Medical Illness / Robert Scheig -- Session V: Varieties of Negative Outcome and the Problem of Relative Versus Absolute Risk -- Alcohol, Protein Metabolism, and Liver Injury / Charles S. Lieber -- Central Nervous System Impairment in the Alcoholic: A Research and Clinical Perspective / Michael Phillips -- Discussion of Papers by Scheig, Liber, Eckardt, and Phillips / James E. O'Brien -- Session VI: Assessment of Treatment Impact -- The Rand Reports: Reconciling Research and Treatment Perspectives / David J. Armor -- Different Strokes for Different Folks: Differential Treatment for Alcohol Abuse / Harvey A. Skinner -- Outcome Criteria and the Assessment of Alcohol Treatment Efficacy / Linda C. Sobell and Mark B. Sobell -- Paths out of Alcoholism / George E. Vaillant -- The Evaluation of the Alcoholic: General Discussion / Jerome H. Jaffe

LCCN

^^^80600132^//r84

OCLC

• 7930378
• SCSB-14231270

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library