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Find remarkable prevention and treatment strategies for
preschool-age children of substance abusers in this informative
volume. It provides an overview of the various problems exposure to
substance abuse can cause for preschool children. Because of the
strong influences parents have on their children, early childhood
is a critical time for intervention to counteract the damaging
effects of alcohol and drug abusing parents. Research shows that
attitudes about alcohol and other drugs are already formed by
junior high school level, and senior high school is too late for
significant attitude change. Preschoolers and Substance Abuse
promotes preschool age as the ideal time to apply strategies that
will aid the family in building the self-esteem, trust, autonomy,
and initiative necessary to protect the child from further problems
caused by addictive parents. Intervention strategies are presented
in a succinct manner, making them easy for practitioners, health
officials, government officials, and family members to put into
immediate practice.This book offers a unique approach to substance
abuse, treating it as a community and societal problem rather than
an individual problem. Intervention and treatment strategies are
geared toward the substance abuse problem itself as well as how it
impacts children and family systems. The harmful impact of alcohol
or drug abusive parents is evaluated for all stages of childhood
development, from pre-natal influences through infancy and the
preschool years. Some of the harmful results of alcohol and drug
abuse affecting preschool children addressed in this volume include
violence, sexual abuse, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and intra-uterine
exposure to drugs. The authors outline a comprehensive list of
imperatives for a future agenda to protect preschool children from
suffering the consequences of their parents'substance abuse. Public
health officials, decision makers, practitioners, and legislators
will find a series of policy recommendations including increased
research, substance abuse training for child care workers,
increased outreach and education for expectant mothers, and
community-based outreach programs to insure ethnic or socioeconomic
sensitivity and appropriateness.
Find remarkable prevention and treatment strategies for
preschool-age children of substance abusers in this informative
volume. It provides an overview of the various problems exposure to
substance abuse can cause for preschool children. Because of the
strong influences parents have on their children, early childhood
is a critical time for intervention to counteract the damaging
effects of alcohol and drug abusing parents. Research shows that
attitudes about alcohol and other drugs are already formed by
junior high school level, and senior high school is too late for
significant attitude change. Preschoolers and Substance Abuse
promotes preschool age as the ideal time to apply strategies that
will aid the family in building the self-esteem, trust, autonomy,
and initiative necessary to protect the child from further problems
caused by addictive parents. Intervention strategies are presented
in a succinct manner, making them easy for practitioners, health
officials, government officials, and family members to put into
immediate practice.This book offers a unique approach to substance
abuse, treating it as a community and societal problem rather than
an individual problem. Intervention and treatment strategies are
geared toward the substance abuse problem itself as well as how it
impacts children and family systems. The harmful impact of alcohol
or drug abusive parents is evaluated for all stages of childhood
development, from pre-natal influences through infancy and the
preschool years. Some of the harmful results of alcohol and drug
abuse affecting preschool children addressed in this volume include
violence, sexual abuse, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and intra-uterine
exposure to drugs. The authors outline a comprehensive list of
imperatives for a future agenda to protect preschool children from
suffering the consequences of their parents'substance abuse. Public
health officials, decision makers, practitioners, and legislators
will find a series of policy recommendations including increased
research, substance abuse training for child care workers,
increased outreach and education for expectant mothers, and
community-based outreach programs to insure ethnic or socioeconomic
sensitivity and appropriateness.
Alcohol problems among Native Americans are severe and widespread.
Statistics report that the rate of alcohol-related deaths is about
eight times greater for Native Americans than for the U.S.
population as a whole. This bibliography identifies the problems of
alcoholism and alcohol abuse among Native American youth as a
severe mental and physical health issue that deserves closer study,
and it brings together in one volume most of what is known about
the subject to date. The increasing amount of research that has
appeared in recent years has created the need for a comprehensive
reference focusing not only on anthropological and sociological
concerns, but on questions more specifically relevant to Native
Americans, such as child abuse and neglect, foster homes, school
problems, dropouts, peer relation effects, family modeling
response, fetal alcohol syndrome, developmental factors, and, most
importantly, social deprivation. The authors maintain that the
emerging literature on Native American youth's alcoholism is
multidisciplinary in nature, suggesting that the subject in general
has taken on greater significance in the social framework of this
country. Native American Youth and Alcohol makes a valuable
contribution by emphasizing the current publications on Indian
youth and alcohol in an accessible format that offers a broad
spectrum of opinion and analysis. This timely work will be read by
professionals in the human services field and by a variety of
researchers, practitioners, and those who are currently engaged in
health promotion and disease prevention activities.
Experts from around the world fill a major gap about social work
education with their survey of the state of the field in over 23
countries and regions within the Americas (United States, Canada,
Mexico and Central America, South America, Argentina), Europe
(United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, Central/Eastern Europe,
Russia and the Republics), Africa (Africa, Zimbabwe, South Africa),
the Middle East (the Middle East and Egypt, Israel), and Asia and
the Pacific (Asia/Pacific, Australia, India, Bangladesh, Japan,
China). This reference guide also considers social work education
from a comparative and global perspective in terms of current
problems and programs and future prospects. Social workers,
educators, academics, and professionals will gain from the country
studies, international overview, and lengthy bibliographies.
Social work originates from humanitarian, religious, and democratic
ideals and philosophies, and has universal applications to meet
human needs arising from personal-societal interactions.
Professional social workers are dedicated to service for the
welfare and self-fulfillment of human beings; to the disciplined
use of scientific knowledge regarding human and societal behavior;
to the development of resources to meet individual, group,
national, and international needs and aspirations; and to the
achievement of social justice. This handbook raises issues such as,
Are there globally recognized values of social work? Is there a
model of international practice that is applicable across the range
of interventions--micro to mezzo to macro? Do social workers have a
professional identity which unites them the world over? This
handbook covers the five continents of the globe by presenting the
state of the art theory and practice of social work within selected
countries which have a legacy of social work, either imported from
the west or indigenously developed within the country. In the
context of conditions prevalent in these countries the handbook
highlights the constant challenges facing social workers and social
work organizations to meet the needs of the individuals and
societies they service.
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