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- Reveals the important role of academic and NGO frameworks for addressing issues of common concern
- Has empirically based structure and includes current, diverse research evidence
- Includes practice case studies with additional summaries
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Mental Health and Addiction (AMHA)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Drug Use and Addiction
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Mental Health and Emergency Conditions: Promoting Human Resource Development
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Back Matter
About this book
This ambitious resource describes innovative intervention programs for treating substance abuse and other mental health problems in the Middle East in the context of larger issues in the region. Deftly combining clinical acumen with in-depth knowledge of sociopolitical currents, contributors present data and analysis on similarities and differences within the region, addiction issues in special populations (youth, mothers, immigrants), and the efficacy of local and international initiatives. New trends in evidence-based responses, including mental health services in war and disaster, are related to the larger goals of promoting peace. To that end, the editors go beyond the concept of shared problems to discuss strategies toward shared solutions, most notably psychological first aid as a healing approach to mediation.
- Drug abuse in the Middle East: promoting mutual interests through resistance and resilience.
- Toward uniform data collection and monitoring of Israeli and Palestinian adolescent drug use.
- Substance abusing mothers: toward an understanding of parenting and risk behavior.
- Immigration, acculturation, and drug use.
- Psychological first aid: a tool for mitigating conflict in the Middle East.
- Collaborative approaches to addressing mental health and addiction.
For health psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers, and addiction counselors, Mental Health and Addiction Care in the Middle East demonstrates the deep potential for mental health and social issues to be addressed to benefit all communities involved.
Editors and Affiliations
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Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
Richard Isralowitz
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Rutgers University School of Social Work, New Brunswick, USA
Patricia A. Findley
About the editors
Patricia A Findley, DrPH, MSW is an associate professor at Rutgers University School of Social Work in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dr. Findley received her doctoral degree at University ofIllinois at Chicago from the School of Public Health, her master’s degree is from Loyola University in Chicago. Her research focuses on chronic illness and disability. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Israel, an award that launched her research into disaster relief and management through collaborations with Ben Guiron University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mental Health and Addiction Care in the Middle East
Editors: Richard Isralowitz, Patricia A. Findley
Series Title: Advances in Mental Health and Addiction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41556-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41554-3Published: 01 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82382-9Published: 28 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41556-7Published: 21 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2570-3390
Series E-ISSN: 2570-3404
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 194
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Psychology, Psychiatry, Social Work, Cross Cultural Psychology