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Circles of Recovery: Self-Help Organizations for Addictions (International Research Monographs in the Addictions) - Softcover

Humphreys, Keith

 
9780521176378: Circles of Recovery: Self-Help Organizations for Addictions (International Research Monographs in the Addictions)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521176379 ISBN 13: 9780521176378
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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

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.' Psychological Medicine

Book Description

Circles of Recovery provides an integrative, international review of self-help organizations, focusing on efficacy, effect on individual members, and practical strategies for how individual clinicians and treatment systems can interact with self-help organizations to improve outcomes.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521176379
ISBN 13 
9780521176378
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
240