Alcohol Problems in the Community / Edition 1

by Larry Harrison

Overview

Community surveys reveal that about 6% of the adult male and 1% of the adult female population in England and Wales are drinking at high risk levels.
Alcohol Problems in the Community examines the implications of recent community care legislation for government policy on alcohol. The first part of the book begins with a report on recent US research on the role of alcohol in the perpetration of child abuse and recent research on young people's drinking problems. This is followed by a study on the prevalence of drinking problems amongst older people which has been underestimated. In the second half of the book empirical evidence is presented on the particular difficulties faced by ethnic, migrant and homeless groups and this emphasis on the centrality of social disadvantage leads on to a consideration of a specific social work role in the assessment and management of alcohol-related problems.
Alcohol Problems in the Community is aimed at social work practitioners and students on prequalifying, qualifying and postqualifying social work courses, and it addresses key social work issues in relation to poverty, homelessness, discrimination and drinking problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415110426
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/14/1995
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1430L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Larry Harrison is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy and Professional Studies at the University of Hull.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Inter-generational links between childhood abuse and alcohol-related problems 2 Alcohol and youth 3 Alcohol and the care of older people 4 People with learning difficulties: alcohol and ordinary lives 5 Drinking and homelessness in the UK 6 Social influences on treatment outcomes 7 Gender divisions and drinking problems 8 Services for women: the way forward 9 Drinking problems among Black communities 10 Community care policy and the future of alcohol services

Editorial Reviews

‘very different and thought-provoking vision of community alcohol services...There are thorough and interesting case studies on drinking and its attendant problems amongst a number of specific groups' Health Services News, Vol 8, No 1

‘A good introduction to a variety of social groups and alcohol-related risks.' Medical Sociology News

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