Substance Abuse Intervention, Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Systems Change: Helping Individuals, Families, and Groups to Empower Themselves
(Part of the Empowering the Powerless: A Social Work Series Series)
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 definitions of substance abuse tend to transform people into their problems, Freeman instead advocates for strengths-centered policies and regulations as the means to empower clients, communities, and society as a whole.
Freeman outlines basic empowerment principles and practices, then details the service delivery processes; offers a context for power, policy, and funding decisions; and examines the needs of special populations. Case examples supplement each chapter, and the final part examines four exemplary programs that demonstrate the empowerment process in action.Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231102364
ISBN13:9780231102360
Release Date:August 2001
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:480 Pages
Weight:1.80 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I appreciate all that this book has taught me about abuse. Its best part though is teaching how to overcome and intervene.
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