Substance Abuse: A Patient-Centered Approach

by Floyd; Michael

• ISBN13: 9781857759129
• ISBN10: 1857759125
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-06-30
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Primary care clinicians are often unfamiliar with new and effective methods for detecting substance abuse problems in their earliest stages, and the majority of patients with substance abuse problems remain undiagnosed. Substance Abuse is written by primary care clinicians and focused to meet the needs of primary care providers, demonstrating how the patient-centered clinical method can assist clinicians in learning how to diagnose this complex psychosocial disorder. This book describes how to use state-of-the-art screening techniques, and how to understand and motivate patients to decrease or eliminate harmful use of alcohol and drugs. It presents the latest scientific findings and gives examples of using a patient-centered approach, as well as describing specific communication skills, with samples of dialogue illustrating their use in helping substance-abusing patients. This is essential reading for all family doctors, paediatricians, gynaecologists, psychiatrists, n

Table of Contents

Series editors' introduction	p. vii
About the authors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Magnitude of the problem: painting the mosaic of substance abuse in a multiethnic society	p. 1
Alcoholism: pathophysiology of a disease	p. 23
'Sinking in a gentle pool of wine': substance abuse and literature	p. 37
Understanding the whole person: developmental issues in the patient-centered approach to substance abuse	p. 53
Impact of substance abuse on the family and work	p. 73
Health promotion and prevention of substance abuse	p. 93
Substance use disorders and the patient-clinician relationship	p. 113
Reaching common ground with patients having drug/alcohol problems: defining problems and planning treatment	p. 135
References	p. 157
Index	p. 179
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