Loosening the Grip: Handbook of Alcohol Information - Softcover

Kinney, Jean; Leaton, Gwen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801627699 ISBN 13: 9780801627699

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1990

Synopsis

This authoritative introduction to alcohol and its abuse is enhanced by the authors' informal, upbeat writing style. Moving logically from the history and psychological effects to behavior and treatment, the book emphasizes the importance of treatment and the effects of alcohol dependence on individual family members.

About this title

About the Author:

Jean Kinney, Lecturer in Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, was the Associate Director of the Alcohol Counselor Training Program at Dartmouth conducted between 1972 and 1978. That program that was the impetus for this text. Upon completion of the Alcohol Counselor Training Program, she became the Director Project Cork, a program established to develop and implement a model curriculum for medical student education. At the completion of Project Cork, the Resource Center that was established as part of that effort, was transferred to the Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs of the State of Vermont's Department of Health. Professor Kinney oversees this Resource Center that continues to serves as a resource for substance abuse and health-care professionals statewide and nationally.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0801627699
• ISBN 13: 9780801627699
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 432