Responding to the Oppression of Addiction: Canadian Social Work Perspectives Tapa blanda de Rick Csiernik (Editor), William S. Rowe (Editor)

Through 28 chapters, Canadian social work scholars and practitioners consider the environmental and structural factors that contribute to substance abuse, a field not always included in social work education in Canada. They address prevention initiatives, including alternate methods of harm reduction, supervised injection sites, and the role of culture in prevention; programs involving the family, perinatal drug dependency disorders, adolescent substance abuse, women dealing with child sexual abuse and addiction, narrative therapy, the impact of addiction on parenting post-separation, Alcoholics Anonymous, and community-based residential addiction treatment; the special needs of different populations, such as working women, violent substance abusers, women seeking help for intimate partner violence, Chinese youth, those with sexual issues, First Nations and Inuit communities, and people with concurrent disorders, as well as issues related to disability and the criminal justice system; policy perspectives; and compulsive behaviors, namely adolescent and youth gambling and compulsive internet and cyber use. This edition has been updated to add eight new chapters, including a first-person narrative on the effects of residential schools on indigenous peoples. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)