Living with drink : women who live with problem drinkers / edited by Richard Velleman, Alex Copello, and Jenny Maslin.
Material type:
- 0582298873
- 9780582298873
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School of Social Work Library Open Shelf | HV5132 LIV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 135360 | Available | BK116785 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index.
Ch. 1. Living with a problem drinker / Jenny Maslin, Richard Velleman and Alex Copello -- Ch. 2. Qualitative methods and biographies / Richard Velleman, Alex Copello and Jenny Maslin -- Ch. 3. Ruth: The impact of children -- Ch. 4. Lisa: The young family -- Ch. 5. Dawn: Still together after many years -- Ch. 6. Ch. 16. Overview and conclusions: Normal people, abnormal circumstances / Alex Copello, Jenny Maslin and Richard Velleman.Sylvia: Drinking and extreme violence -- Ch. 7. Emily: Both partners in the couple have problems -- Ch. 8. May: "The wrong sort of man" -- Ch. 9. A codependency perspective / Liz Cutland -- Ch. 10. A psychodynamic perspective / Barbara Cottman -- Ch. 11. A family systems perspective / Arlene Vetere -- Ch. 12. The coping perspective / Jim Orford -- Ch. 13. A feminist perspective / Jane Ussher -- Ch. 14. A community psychological perspective / David Fryer -- Ch. 15. The participants' perspective: Commentaries from the biographees on the commentators' perspectives / The Biographees.
Living with Drink: Women who live with problem drinkers, examines the experiences of women living with men with alcohol problems. The book looks at how the women understand the processes which lead them to be embroiled in such relationships and examines their accounts from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives. Living with Drink: Women who live with problem drinkers will be of interest to a wide-range of practitioners, academics and students. It is particularly suitable for those taking courses in addiction counselling, psychotherapy training and also health psychology, sociology and social work.
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