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1 online resource (311 pages) |
| Contents |
Coping with Alcohol and Drug Problems: The Experiences of Family Members in Three Contrasting Cultures; Copyright; Contents; List of tables and figures; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Models of understanding: how families continue to be pathologised and misunderstood; Chapter 2 Coping with alcohol and drug problems in the family: a review of previous qualitative research; Chapter 3 The three study locations: Mexico City, South-West England and Indigenous Northern Territory, Australia; Chapter 4 A description of the study in three socio-cultural groups |
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Chapter 5 The impact of excessive drinking and drug taking on family membersChapter 6 How family members cope; Chapter 7 The support family members get from other people; Chapter 8 Variations on a theme: what difference does culture make?; Chapter 9 An integrated view of alcohol and drug problems in the family; Chapter 10 Ways of empowering family members; Notes; References; Author index; Subject index |
| Summary |
What difference does culture make?Coping with Alcohol and Drug Problems: The Experiences of Family Members in Three Contrasting Cultures aims to deepen and extend understanding of the experiences of family members trying to cope with the excessive drinking or drug taking of a relative. Comprehensive and thoroughly up to date, this book draws on the results of the cross-cultural study of alcohol and drug problems in the family, and places these results within the broader context of the international literature on the subject. By investigating the simil |
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Print version record |
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Alcoholics -- Family relationships -- Cross-cultural studies
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Alcoholism -- Cross-cultural studies
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Drug abuse -- Cross-cultural studies
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Drug addicts -- Family relationships -- Cross-cultural studies
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Drug addicts -- Family relationships
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Drug abuse
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Alcoholism
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Alcoholics -- Family relationships
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Alcoholism -- Cross-cultural studies
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Natera, Guillermina
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Copello, Alex
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Atkinson, Carol
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Mora, Jazmin
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Velleman, Richard
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Crundall, Ian
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Tiburcio, Marcela
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Templeton, Lorna
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Walley, Gwen
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| ISBN |
9781134702664 |
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1134702663 |
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