The Stigma of Addiction (eBook, PDF)

An Essential Guide
Redaktion: Avery, Jonathan D.; Avery, Joseph J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the stigma of addiction and discusses ways to improve negative attitudes for better health outcomes. Written by experts in the field of addiction, the text takes a reader-friendly approach to the essentials of addiction stigma across settings and demographics. The authors reveal the challenges patients face in the spaces that should be the safest, including the home, the workplace, the justice system, and even the clinical community. The text aims to deliver tools to professionals who work with individuals with substance use disorders and lay persons seeking to combat stigma and promote recovery.

The Stigma of Addiction is an excellent resource for psychiatrists, addiction medicine specialists, students across specialties, researchers, public health officials, and individuals with substance use disorders and their families.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030025809
• Artikelnr.: 54894520

Autorenporträt

Jonathan D. Avery, MD Department of Psychiatry Weill Cornell Medical College 525 East 68th Street, Box 140 New York, NY 10065   Joseph J. Avery, J.D., M.A. Department of Psychology Princeton University 522 Peretsman Scully Hall Princeton, NJ 08540  

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- Self-Stigma and Addiction.- Family, Stigma, and Addiction.- Relationships, Stigma, and Addiction.- The Language of Stigma and Addiction.- Doctors, Stigma, and Addiction.- The Stigma of Addiction Treatments.- Race, Stigma, and Addiction.- The Legal System, Stigma, and Addiction.- The Stigma of Addiction in the Workplace.- The Stigma of Addiction in the Media.