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Understanding & Working with Substance Misusers
Understanding and Working with Substance Misusers explores the complex nature of addiction and the challenges involved in responding effectively through policy and practice. It examines the biopyschosocial elements of addiction to substances (including alcohol) and, draws together key research findings from these fields to present a new framework for integrating theory and practice. This book fills the need for a text which makes the complex issues surrounding substance misuse accessible to both students and practitioners.
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Interventions and Equivocal outcomes
Aaron Pycroft
In:Understanding & Working with Substance Misusers
Subject:Substance Abuse & Addiction Counseling, Drug Crimes, Health Policy
Keywords:addiction; care managers; harm reduction; project match; relapse; treatment; Twelve Steps
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The aims of this chapter are to:
discuss the 'equivalence paradox' in relation to outcomes from treatments that include Twelve Step facilitation, cognitive behavioural and motivational approaches
discuss the importance of empathy and motivational working
highlight the case management context of service provision
highlight the importance of working with relapse
lay the foundations for the final chapters.
In each of the preceding chapters we have considered some of the ways in which theories and models of addiction relate to appropriate interventions, to prevent or ameliorate problems associated with the use of psychoactive substances. It is quite clear from reviewing the development of interventions over the course of the last 150 years or so, that at times theory and practice have had significant impacts upon ...
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Pycroft, A. (2010). Interventions and equivocal outcomes. SAGE Publications Ltd, https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446251331
Pycroft, Aaron. Understanding & Working with Substance Misusers. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446251331.
Pycroft, A., 2010. Understanding & Working with Substance Misusers. London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446251331> [Accessed 31 Jan 2023].
Pycroft, Aaron. Understanding & Working with Substance Misusers. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010. SAGE Knowledge, 31 Jan 2023, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446251331.
Pycroft, Aaron. Understanding & Working with Substance Misusers London: SAGE Publications Ltd; 2010. doi:10.4135/9781446251331
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