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

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Cambridge University Press, Apr 28, 2016 - Medical
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.
 

Contents

Definitions of drinking problems
5
Alcohol as a drug
23
Causes of drinking problems
38
Social complications of drinking
49
Physical complications of excessive
61
Drinking problems and psychiatric
89
Alcohol and other drug
112
Context
131
Withdrawal states and their clinical
169
problems
190
Alcoholics Anonymous and other
215
Religion spirituality and values
227
Pursuing treatment outcomes other
234
Managing setbacks and challenges
243
Epilogue
256
Copyright

Assessment of patients with
153

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About the author (2016)

Keith Humphreys is a Professor and the Section Director for Mental Health Policy in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Research Career Scientist at the VA Health Services Research Center in Palo Alto and an Honorary Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Dr Humphreys has been extensively involved in the formation of public policy, having served as a member of the White House Commission on Drug Free Communities, the VA National Mental Health Task Force, and the National Advisory Council of the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Anne Lingford-Hughes is Professor of Addiction Biology at Imperial College London and a Consultant Psychiatrist with a particular interest in pharmacological treatments of alcohol problems and comorbidity at Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust. Professor Lingford-Hughes is past Honorary General Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. She co-developed and wrote their guidelines about the pharmacological management of substance misuse and addiction and comorbidity with psychiatric disorders. She has also contributed to NICE guidance regarding pharmacotherapy of opiate detoxification and alcohol misuse and dependence.

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