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Circles of Recovery: Self-Help Organizations for Addictions Reissue Edition
Author(s): Keith Humphreys (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: March 3, 2011
- Edition: Reissue
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 0521176379
- ISBN-13: 9780521176378
Book Description
Self-help organizations across the world have attracted millions of individuals seeking to address addiction problems with drugs or alcohol. This book provides an integrative, international review of research that focuses on how these organizations affect individual members and whether self-help groups and formal health care systems can work together to combat substance abuse. In addition, it offers practical strategies for individual clinicians and treatment systems on how to interact with self-help organizations.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“[Humphreys] has effectively focused the attention of an international audience on responses to a problem of global dimension. The best service this book can render is to open the way for the adoption of the self-help philosophy as an option everywhere and to stimulate an ongoing scientific evaluation of its effectiveness.” Isidore Obot & Shekhar Saxena, Bulletin of the World Health Organization
“[An] important and useful book…Read this book.” Klaus Mäkelä, Nordisk Alkohol & Narkotikatidskrift
“The author is a well-known figure in the fields of evaluation research and the treatment of substance dependence. He has effectively focused the attention of an international audience on responses to a problem of global dimension.” Bulletin of the World Health Organization
“A must read for all addiction professionals as well as all other mental health professionals who encounter substance abuse problems in their clients.” Psychological Medicine
“I highly recommend this book.” Psychiatric Services
Book Description
Circles of Recovery provides an integrative, international review of self-help organizations for addiction recovery.
