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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... strengths - based approach . In addition to its substantial contribution to practice literature , this book also advances our understanding of empowerment . Freeman begins with a useful and comprehensive review of the current work on ...
... strengths- focused policies and regulations support empowerment practice to the ben- efit of clients , programs , communities , and society as a whole . The book addresses how clients ' and communities ' strengths and needs influence ...
... strengths and incredible courage . I thank them for trusting me and sharing their personal struggles . I am grateful to Rosella Cox and Maria Sloop , who typed parts of this manuscript . Their support and skills have been invaluable . I ...
... strengths from those experiences could be applied effectively during rehab and prevention services , and then throughout the life span ( Miller 1994 ) . For instance , a seventy - two - year - old man was admitted to a rehab program in ...
... strengths of clients and communities ; 5 ) Devise and redevise interventions in response to the unique configuration of requests , issues , and needs that a client or client group presents . Resist becoming wedded to a favored ...
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 |