Substance Abuse Intervention, Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Systems Change: Helping Individuals, Families, and Groups to Empower ThemselvesColumbia University Press, 2001 M09 26 - 480 pages 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 Gutiérrez 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. |
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Helping Individuals, Families, and Groups to Empower Themselves Edith Freeman. individual , family , and group services ; community practice ; administration ; and policy practice . For example , Professor Freeman effectively explores ...
... Freeman's book makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of empowerment and of the different ways we can ap- proach issues of substance abuse . The problem of substance abuse continues to grow in our society , with a ...
... Freeman begins with a useful and comprehensive review of the current work on empowerment in social work and related fields . She does a masterful job of integrating differ- ent perspectives and theories into one that is directly ...
Helping Individuals, Families, and Groups to Empower Themselves Edith Freeman. Preface and Acknowledgments It is true that what is personal is political , and what is political is also personal ( Davis and Hagen 1995 ) . Therefore , to ...
... ( Freeman , Logan , and Gowdy 1992 ) and that mutual help activities and a sense of community are indicators of empowered social support networks ( Germain and Gitterman 1996 ; Lewis and Ford 1991 ) . Summary of Efforts to Define ...
Contents
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The Multilevel Substance Abuse Service System A Context for Power Policy and Funding Decisions | 59 |
The Substance Abuse Policy and Funding Subsystem Sociopolitical and Power Issues | 61 |
The Community Development and Primary Group Subsystem Sources of Power Resiliency and Substance Abuse Prevention | 89 |
The Substance Abuse Program Subsystem Organizational Administrative and Direct Service Issues | 109 |
An Empowered Substance Abuse Service Delivery Process Expanding the ClientCentered Continuum of Care | 135 |
Intervention An EmpowermentBased Preservice Foundation for Prevention and Rehabilitation | 139 |
Building on Cultural Diversity in ClientCentered Individual Work Implications for SelfEmpowerment | 262 |
Phased Services During Aftercare and Termination Evaluation of Empowerment Outcomes | 285 |
Empowering Microcosm and Empowered Substance Abuse Programs The Voices of Special Populations | 307 |
New Alternatives A Drug and Alcohol Rehab Program for a Multicultural Adolescent Population | 309 |
Restore and Repair Perinatal Rehab Services for Women and Children | 337 |
Recovery Works Rehab Services for Adults with Dual Diagnoses | 368 |
Dareisa Rehab Services A CultureSpecific Program for African American Adults | 397 |
Lessons Learned from Empowerment Research Implications for the Future of Empowerment Practice | 430 |
Community Prevention Empowerment Systems Change and Culturally Sensitive Evaluation | 159 |
Assessment Clients as Experts on Their Experiences Recovery Motivation and Power Resources | 183 |
Group Approaches to Collective Empowerment in Rehab SelfHelp and Prevention Programs | 208 |
FamilyCentered Rehabilitative Services Intergenerational and Nuclear Family Empowerment and Evaluation Strategies | 236 |
References | 451 |
Index | 477 |