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Substance Abuse Intervention, Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Systems Change : Helping Individuals, Families, and Groups to Empower Themselves - Edith Freeman

Substance Abuse Intervention, Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Systems Change

Helping Individuals, Families, and Groups to Empower Themselves

By: Edith Freeman, Lorraine Gutierrez (Foreword by)

Hardcover | 26 September 2001 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"This book invites the readers to broaden their conception of substance abuse practice... it provides an excellent new vision for the average practitioner caught up in a problem-focused organization." -- Irene Moreda, "Social Work with Groups" "This book invites the readers to broaden their conception of substance abuse practice... it provides an excellent new vision for the average practitioner caught up in a problem-focused organization." -- Irene Moreda, Social Work with Groups "This book invites the readers to broaden their conception of substance abuse practice... it provides an excellent new vision for the average practitioner caught up in a problem-focused organization." -- Irene Moreda, "Social Work with Groups"

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