Women and Drinking: Preventing Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies (Advances in Psychotherapy: Evidence Based Practice) - Softcover

Velasquez, Mary Marden; Ingersoll, Karen; Sobell, Linda Carter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889374015 ISBN 13: 9780889374010

Publisher: Hogrefe Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

A new volume in the Advances in Psychotherapy - Evidence-Based Practice series. The Advances in Psychotherapy series has been developed and is edited with the support of the Society of Clinical Psychology (APA Division 12).

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Mary Marden Velasquez is Centennial Professor in Leadership for Community, Corporate, and Professional Excellence and director of the Health Behavior Research and Training Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the development and testing of behavioral interventions in healthcare settings, screening and brief interventions, group treatment for substance use, and preventing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.Dr. Karen Ingersoll is associate professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Ingersoll’s focus is the intersection of addiction and health.She has developed and tested motivational interventions that target health behaviors and addictive behaviors together for two decades, including multiple studies of interventions to reduce the risk of alcoholexposed pregnancy.Drs. Linda and Mark Sobell are both professors at Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and have had a clinical research career spanning four decades. They are nationally and internationally known for their research in the addictions field, including the development of the Timeline Followback and Guided Self-Change model of treatment.They both have received several awards including the Jellinek Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to know-ledge in the field.

From the Inside Flap:

“This book is an excellent overview of newly developed interventions for preventing alcohol- exposed pregnancies and life-long disorders in children. Written by the world experts in motivational interviewing and women’s drinking, the book includes a comprehensive description of the award-winning project CHOICES and its adaptations. This is an encouraging and useful resource for any health professional who works with women.” Tatiana Balachova, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK “While there are lots of books on FASD, this volume shines by getting to the heart of the matter of preventing this major health issue – avoiding an alcohol-exposed pregnancy.This is a must-have resource for health professionals working with women of childbearing age to help identify and intervene with those at risk.” Edward Riley, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director, Center for Behavioral Teratology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA “The authors have put together an excellent summary of a number of prevention and intervention strategies developed to decrease adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with prenatal alcohol exposure. I particularly appreciate the emphasis on the project CHOICES which provides women with a balanced and logical approach to prevention of alcohol-exposed pregnancies. The section on screening for at-risk drinking is excellent, as is the information on how to ask a woman about her drinking habits. I especially like the ‘clinical pearls’ that are interspersed throughout the book.” Kenneth Lyons Jones, MD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA

About this edition

• Publisher: Hogrefe Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0889374015
• ISBN 13: 9780889374010
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80