Social work in mental health and substance abuse / [edited by] Sharon Duca Palmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palmer, Sharon Duca, 1965-

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social work with people with mental disabilities.

Social work with drug addicts.

Physical Description:

316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakville, Ont. : Apple Academic Press, [2011]

Summary:

"This book examines many of the predominant issues in the field of social work in mental health and substance abuse today, including incarceration of drug abusers, methadone treatment for heroin users, substance abuse among sex workers, how parental smoking affects children's attitudes, binge drinking, depression and its relation to sociodemographic factors, help for homeless drug abusers, and more."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Performance measurement for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders

Methamphetamine use and rates of incarceration among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting: a cross-sectional analysis

Medication management and practices in prison for people with mental health problems: a qualitative study

Estimating incidence trends in regular heroin use in 26 regions of Switzerland using methadone treatment data

Substance abuse, treatment needs and access among female sex workers and non-sex workers in Pretoria, South Africa

Nowhere to go: how stigma limits the options of female drug users after release from jail

Evidence for habitual and goal-directed behavior following devaluation of cocaine: a multifaceted interpretation of relapse

Conflict and user involvement in drug misuse treatment decision-making: a qualitative study

Deficits in implicit attention to social signals in schizophrenia and high risk groups: behavioural evidence from a new illusion

The moderating role of parental smoking on their children's attitudes toward smoking among a predominantly minority sample: a cross-sectional analysis

Women's childhood and adult adverse experiences, mental health, and binge drinking: the California women's health survey

Relation between depression and sociodemographic factors

Satisfaction with life and opioid dependence

Can playing the computer game "Tetris" reduce the build-up of flashbacks for trauma? a proposal from cognitive science

Unofficial policy: access to housing, housing information and social services among homeless drug users in Hartford, Connecticut

Mental health symptoms in relation to socio-economic conditions and lifestyle factors

a population-based study in Sweden.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1926692888

9781926692883

OCLC:

710886502

Publisher Number:

99949633034