Addiction Dilemmas
Family Experiences from Literature and Research and their Lessons for Practice
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Beschreibung
Addiction Dilemmas explores the impact of addiction on those closest to the individuals affected - their families. Many barriers can stand in the way of family members receiving help, not least a lack of available services and a failure on the part of professionals and their organisations to fully appreciate the nature of the dilemmas which they face.
This book is based on a combination of personal interviews from scientific research, accounts from biography and autobiography (featuring well-known names both past and present) and excerpts from well-informed works of literature. The book's core theme is the stress faced by family members when a close relative has an addiction problem, and the coping strategies which others in similar situations have found useful. By tracing the same dilemmas through a range of contexts, Jim Orford offers unique insights to professionals who deal with addicts and their families, researchers, policy makers and ultimately family members themselves. Sources include The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, A Chancer by James Kelman, Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill, and biographies of close relatives of Dylan Thomas and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Addiction Dilemmas explores the impact of addiction on those closest to the individuals affected and their families. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book discusses the stresses and strains that family members are subjected to, the dilemmas that they face, and the coping strategies that they have found useful.
* Draws on a unique breadth of material to illustrate the dilemmas faced by family members in coping with a close relative's addiction
* Raises questions and points to controversies rather than dispensing prescriptive "one size fits all" advice
* Brings together accounts from research interviews, biography, autobiography and relevant fiction in a creative and original way
* Tackles common misunderstandings at public, practitioner, scholarly and policy levels about the predicaments that family members commonly find themselves in
* Each chapter closes with a commentary, questions and exercises designed to further develop understanding for professionals and students
Autor*in
Jim Orford
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Addictions Psychologie Psychology Sucht