This 19-volume set has titles originally published between 1951 and 1991. The books examine alcohol in a variety of ways, particularly the debates around, and the progression in, treatment for alcoholism through the 1970s and 1980s, but also in th...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1987, Helping the Problem Drinker addressed the realisation that only a small proportion of problem drinkers ever contacted existing treatment agencies, and that therefore a more comprehensive community-oriented appr...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1981 and revised in 1983, Controlled Drinking was the first scholarly review of the literature on a controversial but increasingly practiced approach to the treatment of alcoholism. Nick Heather and Ian Robertson ana...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1978, this book develops a radical new perspective on the prevalence and causes of drinking problems, combining reviews of historical and contemporary literature with the authors own research studies. In the...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1991, Educating Young Drinkers outlines the reasons for the lack of success in previous experiments in alcohol education at the time. It focuses on an activity-based primary intervention with young people as a possib...Daugiau...
How far should counselling be tailored to an individuals needs? What intervention is most effective for which kind of problem drinker? How can the counsellor successfully guide the client through the process of deciding to change? Originally publ...Daugiau...
In the 1970s the vagrant alcoholic was not a new problem, and for the previous two hundred years people had asked: What can be done to help them? Why not lock them up? Why dont they get jobs? Tim Cook had worked for many years with homeless men a...Daugiau...
In the 1980s the study of alcoholism was in a period of rapid change, this book, originally published in 1985, identifies and explores the three most controversial contemporary issues. The authors broadly reject the disease concept of alcoholism,...Daugiau...
In the early 1980s, emphasis had shifted from the treatment of alcohol problems to their prevention. Yet no clear integrated policy yet existed about how alcohol problems could best be prevented. Many different strategies were put forward as solut...Daugiau...
The nature of alcohol problems is very diverse and the strategies adopted for minimising these vary even more. First published in 1983, a detailed review of public health issues in this field at the time opens the book. Followed by an examination...Daugiau...
In the 1970s, an important change of emphasis had occurred in the field of alcoholism. Instead of seeing alcoholism as an all or none phenomenon it was now recognised that a continuum of alcohol problems existed so that individual cases could sh...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1977, alcoholism was acknowledged to be a seriously growing problem in many parts of the world. It is a complex disorder with psychiatric, physical, psychological and social aspects, having far reaching harmful effects on t...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1980, the purpose of this book was to aid a process of rethinking alcoholism treatment. Such a process was already underway in many parts of the world at the time. It was hoped that this volume would be useful in the modest...Daugiau...
First published in 1981, this book reviews the evidence relating to the general effects of alcohol misuse on employment and the special problems involved in certain high-risk industries at the time. A number of international case studies are the...Daugiau...
In the 1980s the relationship between alcohol and aggression and violence was a controversial one. Much of previous thinking had been based on anecdotal evidence. In contrast this book, originally published in 1986, is based upon recent scientific...Daugiau...
Alcohol education in the 1980s was receiving greater emphasis in the training and practice of a wide range of health and welfare professionals. As we became more aware of the risks associated with excessive drinking, this practical, straightforwar...Daugiau...
