Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs: Challenging Myths, Assessing Theories, Individualizing Interventions
Author: Ann Augustine Abbott
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ISBN: 0871013169
Publisher: Natl Assn of Social Workers (October, 2000)
Sales Rank: 496,608
Average Customer Rating: 3 out of 5
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Rating: 3 out of 5
Informative but slightly souless
I bought this book as a text for my Chemical Dependancies class for my masters degree in Psychology. I found this text to be very dry. It is informative, with lots of statistical/research type details and useful for that purpose. However, I found the text to lack a more human dimension and as a result i found that I had to make quite an effort to read it ( that is unusual for me). I think that, as dependancies on Alcohol, tobacco and other substances is such a widespread phenomenon in our society, that so many people can relate to, as so many families have been touched by the problems of a loved one with addiction problems, I think that it would have been possible to enrich this text with some case studies or stories. These would have brought the text more into reality and given it more feeling. As it is the book reads very much like a dry research paper on the phenomenon and lacks a little Soul. A good book for someone in the field, but not so good for a student making its first steps within it. Similar Products
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