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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      31 July 2009
      30 October 2003
      ISBN:
      9780511543883
      9780521792776
      9780521176378
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511543883
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.505kg, 240 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.36kg, 240 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience, Medicine, Psychology, Psychiatry
      Series:
      International Research Monographs in the Addictions
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    Subjects:
    Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience, Medicine, Psychology, Psychiatry
    Series:
    International Research Monographs in the Addictions
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    Self-help organizations across the world, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Croix D'Or, The Links, Moderation Management, Narcotics Anonymous, and SMART Recovery, have attracted tens of millions of individuals seeking to address addiction problems with drugs or alcohol. This book provides an integrative, international review of research on these organizations, focusing in particular on the critical questions of how they affect individual members and whether self-help groups and formal health care systems can work together to combat substance abuse. Keith Humphreys reviews over 500 studies into the efficacy of self-help groups as an alternative and voluntary form of treatment. In addition to offering a critical review of the international body of research in this area, he provides practical strategies for how individual clinicians and treatment systems can interact with self-help organizations in a way that improves outcomes for patients and for communities as a whole.

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    Review of the hardback:'This book presents a clear and comprehensive international overview of the history of self-help groups and the evidence for their efficacy in recovery … This book is a must read for all addiction professionals as well as all other mental health professionals who encounter substance abuse problems in their clients.'

    Source: Psychological Medicine

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