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Social Class and the Treatment of Alcoholism - An investigation of social class as a determinant of diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy (Paperback)
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Social Class and the Treatment of Alcoholism - An investigation of social class as a determinant of diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy (Paperback)
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Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries alcoholism was
seen largely as a vice of the poor and its treatment rested almost
entirely with the missions and the workhouse. The theory that
alcoholism is a disease that can affect anyone regardless of social
position is by no means universally accepted even today. Although
in the last twenty-five years there has been a rapid increase in
the number of public institutions for the treatment of alcoholics,
the possibility remains that class status still influences the
diagnosis and care they receive. This study observes a sample of
patients of a public clinic, from their source of referral for
treatment to termination of therapy, to determine the influences of
class position on the therapy used in each case. The findings
indicate that specific treatments are assigned along class lines.
The authors of this study offer a number of necessary
recommendations which ask for a more rational link between therapy
and diagnosis than is currently evident in clinical practice. This
is an extremely important and topical study, the findings of which
are applicable beyond the treatment of alcoholism to the treatment
of all behavioural disorders.
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