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Mental Health and Addiction Care in the Middle East
This ambitious resource describes innovative intervention programs for treating substance abuse and other mental health problems in the Middle East in the context of larger issues in the region. Deftly combining clinical acumen with in-depth knowledge of sociopolitical currents, contributors present...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Colección: | Advances in Mental Health and Addiction,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction to the Middle East Region
- Substance abuse and addiction history
- theoretical considerations of resilience and resistance activities including adjustment and acculturation
- Drug Use and Addiction
- Current patterns and problems of drug use among the Israeli and Palestinian people
- Model intervention strategies (Middle East/US SAMHSA RADAR Center Development; UCLA Matrix Model; Addiction Severity Index; Project EX; IMAGE' HCV infectious disease prevention, etc.)
- Religiosity: preventing drug use among high school students
- School drop outs and drug treatment: an avaluation
- Immigration and acculturaiton: female addicts from the former Soviet Union
- Mental Health and Emergency Conditions: Promoting Human Resources Development
- Resilience in emergency conditions (psychological first aid; caeworkers' needs; intervention strategies for children, parents, and teachers; Internet web site for addressing emergency mental health needs of children, parents, and teachers)
- Resilience and response to emergency conditions through psychological first aid (Israeli perspectives; Palestinian perspectives)
- Conclusion: Final thoughts on two decades of mental health and addiciton development efforts.