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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... lives . Rappaport ( 1987 ) , for example , indicates empowerment is a mechanism by which people , organizations , and communities gain mas- tery over their affairs . Similarly , Zimmerman ( 1991 ) notes that an empow- ering organization ...
... lives ( Freire 1970 ; Freire and Maccdo 1987 ; Wallerstein and Bernstein 1988 ) . This definition implies that having such a value or belief in the power to change is a precondition for successfully acting on or altering one's ...
... lives in their communitv and larger society " ( 380 ) . Yeich and Levine ( 1992 ) state that empowerment is a process for mobilizing individuals and groups in order to cause changes in society that give oppressed people more power over ...
... lives " ( personal correspondence 1994 ) . Other authors have developed comprehensive practical guidelines that help to define and clarify empowerment as a practice strategy ( Lee 1994 ; Mattaini and Kirk 1991 ; Pinderhughes 1989 ...
... lives . Microcosm programs focus on personal em- powerment as well as on collective empowerment via a systems change process within the programs , strengthening clients ' internal and external lives ( Freeman 1994 ) . By doing so ...
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 |