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Responding to the oppression of addiction : Canadian social work perspectives / edited by Rick Csiernik and William S. Rowe.
- Title
- Responding to the oppression of addiction : Canadian social work perspectives / edited by Rick Csiernik and William S. Rowe.
- Publication
- Toronto : Canadian Scholars' Press, c2010.
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- Description
- ix, 405 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--pub. desc.
- Subject
- Social Work
- Substance-Related Disorders > therapy
- Social work with drug addicts > Canada
- Social work with alcoholics > Canada
- Substance abuse > Treatment
- Compulsive gambling > Canada
- Service social aux toxicomanes > Canada
- Service social aux alcooliques > Canada
- Polytoxicomanie > Traitement
- Jeux de hasard > Comportement compulsif > Canada
- Canada
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Creating a social work understanding of addiction / Rick Csiernik and William S. Rowe.
- Pt. 1. Prevention. Prevention as controversy : harm reduction / Jim Watkin, William S. Rowe and Rick Csiernik -- Supervised injection sites : harm reduction and health promotion / William S. Rowe and Cassandra Gonzalez -- Culture as prevention : a case study of urban Canadian Jewish male students / Michael B. Waxman and Rick Csiernik.
- Pt. 2. Programs. Is Alcoholics Anonymous of value for social work practitioners? / Rick Csiernik -- A model for working with women dealing with child sexual abuse and addiction : The Laurel Centre / Diane Hiebert-Murphy and Lee Woytkiw -- Narrative therapy ideas and practices for working with addiction / Laura Beres -- Professional-peer co-leadership : The Elders Health Program / Debra Kostyk, Don Fuchs, Ellen Tabisz and William R. Jacyk -- Maintaining the continuum of care : arguing for community-based residential addiction treatment programs / Rick Csiernik -- Does sex matter? Individual and Group outcomes of male and female community treatment clients / Jane Troller, Rick Csiernik and Steve Didham.
- Pt. 3. Populations. Coming home : rediscovering the family in addiction treatment in Canada / Ramona Alaggia and Rick Csiernik -- Patterns of intimacy and sexual expression in interaction with addictions / Louise Osmond and Dennis Kimberley -- The use of prescribed psychotropic drugs by working women / Pauline Morissette and Nicole Dedobbeleer with Emma Wilson and Rick Csiernik -- Violent substance abusers in domestic violence treatment / Thomas Brown, Annette Werk, Tom Caplan and Peter Seraganian -- 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 -- Drug use, addiction and the criminal justice system / Amber Kellen and Lois Powers -- The treatment of adolescent substance abuse / Chris Stewart and William S. Rowe -- The experiences of Chinese/Canadians in drug treatment programs in Vancouver / Siu-ming Kwok -- Understanding the ultimate oppression : alcohol and drug addiction in Native land / Mavis Etienne and Kelly Brownbill -- Concurrent disorders and social work intervention / Dennis Kimberley and Louise Osmond -- Is substance abuse even an issue? Perceptions of male and female community-based mental health system consumer-survivors / Rick Csiernik.
- Pt. 4. Policy. Many paths to prohibition : drug policy in Canada / Rick Csiernik and Robin Koop-Watson -- Addiction intervention, employability and welfare / Carolyne Gorlick and Rick Csiernik -- Are social workers taught to be competent addiction counsellors? / Greg Graves, Rick Csiernik, Jamie Foy and Joseph Cesar.
- Pt. 5. Problem gambling. Problem gambling : current knowledge and clinical perspectives / Jeffrey Derevensky, Rina Gupta and Rick Csiernik.
- ISBN
- 9781551303680 (pbk.)
- 155130368X (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2010398399
- OCLC
- 496482879
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library