The study used data from a national study of substance abuse treatment, the Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS), examining clients of outpatient nonmethadone treatment (n=756) and residential treatment (n=428) separately. Andersen's (1995) Socio-Behavioral Model of Health Services Use provided a unifying theoretical framework relating individual and organizational factors to care utilization and improved health outcomes. The specific research questions addressed in this dissertation were: (1) what are the predictors of self-help group attendance after discharge from treatment? And (2) what is the relationship between attendance at self-help groups and treatment outcomes, such as post-discharge substance abuse, criminal involvement and employment?
Designed for educators, prevention and treatment practitioners, policymakers, researchers, the media and others. Presents key policy-relevant indicators with an emphasis on trends over time. Beginning with patterns of use, it moves on to the consequences of use and concludes with ways to combat the problem. Data show that tobacco, alcohol and other drug use are down from the peak levels of earlier decades, and the perception of risk associated with substance abuse has increased since then, pockets of high use remain, and risky experimentation by youth continues. Helps provide a better understanding of the nation's number one health problem and ways that we can deal with it. Charts and tables.
First-person accounts by birth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted children examines how adoption, including open and multiracial adoption, impacts individuals and families, and reveals the frustration, joy, and expectations.
Offering unparalleled coverage of infectious diseases in children and adolescents, Feigin & Cherry’s Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 8th Edition, continues to provide the information you need on epidemiology, public health, preventive medicine, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and much more. This extensively revised edition by Drs. James Cherry, Gail J. Demmler-Harrison, Sheldon L. Kaplan, William J. Steinbach, and Peter J. Hotez, offers a brand-new full-color design, new color images, new guidelines, and new content, reflecting today’s more aggressive infectious and resistant strains as well as emerging and re-emerging diseases Discusses infectious diseases according to organ system, as well as individually by microorganisms, placing emphasis on the clinical manifestations that may be related to the organism causing the disease. Provides detailed information regarding the best means to establish a diagnosis, explicit recommendations for therapy, and the most appropriate uses of diagnostic imaging. Features expanded information on infections in the compromised host; immunomodulating agents and their potential use in the treatment of infectious diseases; and Ebola virus. Contains hundreds of new color images throughout, as well as new guidelines, new resistance epidemiology, and new Global Health Milestones. Includes new chapters on Zika virus and Guillain-Barré syndrome. Expert ConsultTM eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
This practical volume has been written to provide the insights and tools you need to organize and administer psychiatric emergency services. The vital areas of managing psychiatric emergency services are explored, including recordkeeping, budgeting, and protocols. This expertly-edited and clearly written book will be an invaluable resource for mental health professionals and students from all fields--psychiatry, psychology, nursing, and social work--who are involved in the delivery of emergency psychiatric services.
Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases helps you put the very latest knowledge to work for your young patients with unparalleled coverage of everything from epidemiology, public health, and preventive medicine through clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and much more. Ideal for all physicians, whether in an office or hospital setting, Feigin and Cherry’s equips you with trusted answers to your most challenging clinical infectious disease questions. Meet your most difficult clinical challenges in pediatric infectious disease, including today’s more aggressive infectious and resistant strains as well as emerging and re-emerging diseases, with unmatched, comprehensive coverage of immunology, epidemiology, public health, preventive medicine, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and much more. Find the answers you need quickly thanks to an organization both by organ system and by etiologic microorganism, allowing you to easily approach any topic from either direction.
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