Mental Health and Addiction Care in the Middle East
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| Summary: | XI, 194 p. 19 illus., 12 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Series: | Advances in Mental Health and Addiction,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41556-7 |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the Middle East Region
- Substance abuse and addiction history
- theoretical considerations of resilience and resistance activities including adjustment and acculturation
- Drug Use and Addiction
- Current patterns and problems of drug use among the Israeli and Palestinian people
- Model intervention strategies (Middle East/US SAMHSA RADAR Center Development; UCLA Matrix Model; Addiction Severity Index; Project EX; IMAGE' HCV infectious disease prevention, etc.)
- Religiosity: preventing drug use among high school students
- School drop outs and drug treatment: an avaluation
- Immigration and acculturaiton: female addicts from the former Soviet Union
- Mental Health and Emergency Conditions: Promoting Human Resources Development
- Resilience in emergency conditions (psychological first aid; caeworkers' needs; intervention strategies for children, parents, and teachers; Internet web site for addressing emergency mental health needs of children, parents, and teachers)
- Resilience and response to emergency conditions through psychological first aid (Israeli perspectives; Palestinian perspectives)
- Conclusion: Final thoughts on two decades of mental health and addiciton development efforts.