Author: Marcia Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134485913
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The inadequacy of drug treatment services for women is an international issue, noted at all major conferences The needs of women have assumed an increasingly important part of the range of topics for further research and attention by service providers and policy makers There is a great lack of information in this field and this book will fill that gap
Drug Misuse and Motherhood
Author: Marcia Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134485913
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The inadequacy of drug treatment services for women is an international issue, noted at all major conferences The needs of women have assumed an increasingly important part of the range of topics for further research and attention by service providers and policy makers There is a great lack of information in this field and this book will fill that gap
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134485913
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The inadequacy of drug treatment services for women is an international issue, noted at all major conferences The needs of women have assumed an increasingly important part of the range of topics for further research and attention by service providers and policy makers There is a great lack of information in this field and this book will fill that gap
No One Visits the Mother of a Drug Addict
Author: Nancy R Chalmers
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 9781498492737
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This autobiographical story recounts the author's experiences enduring her only son's drug addiction and the physical, emotional and spiritual turmoil the addiction was on her and the family. Readers are given a firsthand viewpoint on witnessing drug addiction take over a person's life, straight from her eyes. She not only accounts the heartbreak of seeing her son's tangle with drugs, but also shares how no one knew how, or were sometimes willing, to help the family remain strong in God at that time. Healing did come, and is still coming, through God's grace and redemption. Nancy Chalmers hopes her story will bring hope and encouragement to many families dealing with this epidemic and other life altering issues. A portion of the proceeds from this book will provide scholarships to those needing to enter the wonderful healing program of Teen Challenge. I will never be able to repay their impact on my Son, Andrew Chalmers. But I can help another family experience the miracle of the transformed life of a loved one. Go to www.teenchallengeusa.org for more information.
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 9781498492737
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This autobiographical story recounts the author's experiences enduring her only son's drug addiction and the physical, emotional and spiritual turmoil the addiction was on her and the family. Readers are given a firsthand viewpoint on witnessing drug addiction take over a person's life, straight from her eyes. She not only accounts the heartbreak of seeing her son's tangle with drugs, but also shares how no one knew how, or were sometimes willing, to help the family remain strong in God at that time. Healing did come, and is still coming, through God's grace and redemption. Nancy Chalmers hopes her story will bring hope and encouragement to many families dealing with this epidemic and other life altering issues. A portion of the proceeds from this book will provide scholarships to those needing to enter the wonderful healing program of Teen Challenge. I will never be able to repay their impact on my Son, Andrew Chalmers. But I can help another family experience the miracle of the transformed life of a loved one. Go to www.teenchallengeusa.org for more information.
Encyclopedia of Motherhood
Author: Andrea O'Reilly
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412968461
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 1521
Book Description
In the last decade, the topic of motherhood has emerged as a distinct and established field of scholarly inquiry. A cursory review of motherhood research reveals that hundreds of scholarly articles have been published on almost every motherhood theme imaginable. The Encyclopedia of Motherhood is a collection of approximately 700 articles in a three-volume, A-to-Z set exploring major topics related to motherhood, from geographical, historical and cultural entries to anthropological and psychological contributions. In human society, few institutions are as important as motherhood, and this unique encyclopedia captures the interdisciplinary foundation of the subject in one convenient reference. The Encyclopedia is a comprehensive resource designed to provide an understanding of the complexities of motherhood for academic and public libraries, and is written by academics and institutional experts in the social and behavioural sciences.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412968461
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 1521
Book Description
In the last decade, the topic of motherhood has emerged as a distinct and established field of scholarly inquiry. A cursory review of motherhood research reveals that hundreds of scholarly articles have been published on almost every motherhood theme imaginable. The Encyclopedia of Motherhood is a collection of approximately 700 articles in a three-volume, A-to-Z set exploring major topics related to motherhood, from geographical, historical and cultural entries to anthropological and psychological contributions. In human society, few institutions are as important as motherhood, and this unique encyclopedia captures the interdisciplinary foundation of the subject in one convenient reference. The Encyclopedia is a comprehensive resource designed to provide an understanding of the complexities of motherhood for academic and public libraries, and is written by academics and institutional experts in the social and behavioural sciences.
Early life influences: a position paper of the Women's Health Council
Author:
Publisher: The Women's Health Council
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Publisher: The Women's Health Council
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Using Women
Author: Nancy Campbell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135961050
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
From the 1950s 'girl junkie' to the 1990s 'crack mom', Using Women investigates how the cultural representations of women drug users have defined America's drug policies in this century. In analyzing the public's continued fear, horror and outrage wrought by the specter of women using drugs, Nancy Campbell demonstrates the importance that public opinion and popular culture have played in regulating women's lives. The book will chronicle the history of women and drug use, provide a critical policy analysis of the government's drug policies and offer recommendations for the direction our current drug policies should take. Using Women includes such chapters as 'Sex, Drugs and Race in the Age of Dope'; 'Regulating Adolescents in the Postwar US'; 'Fifties Femininity'; and 'Regulating Maternal Instinct'.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135961050
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
From the 1950s 'girl junkie' to the 1990s 'crack mom', Using Women investigates how the cultural representations of women drug users have defined America's drug policies in this century. In analyzing the public's continued fear, horror and outrage wrought by the specter of women using drugs, Nancy Campbell demonstrates the importance that public opinion and popular culture have played in regulating women's lives. The book will chronicle the history of women and drug use, provide a critical policy analysis of the government's drug policies and offer recommendations for the direction our current drug policies should take. Using Women includes such chapters as 'Sex, Drugs and Race in the Age of Dope'; 'Regulating Adolescents in the Postwar US'; 'Fifties Femininity'; and 'Regulating Maternal Instinct'.
Parenting and Substance Abuse
Author: Nancy E. Suchman
Publisher: OUP Us
ISBN: 019974310X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
Parenting and Substance Abuse is the first book to report on pioneering efforts to move the treatment of substance-abusing parents forward by embracing their roles and experiences as mothers and fathers directly and continually across the course of treatment.
Publisher: OUP Us
ISBN: 019974310X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
Parenting and Substance Abuse is the first book to report on pioneering efforts to move the treatment of substance-abusing parents forward by embracing their roles and experiences as mothers and fathers directly and continually across the course of treatment.
Motherhood, Mental Illness and Recovery
Author: Nikole Benders-Hadi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319013181
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Despite the importance of regaining social roles during recovery from mental illness, the intersection between motherhood and serious mental illness is often overlooked. This book aims to rectify that neglect. A series of introductory chapters describing current research and services available to mothers with serious mental illness are followed by personal accounts of clients reflecting on their parenting experiences. One goal of the book is to provide clinicians with information that they can use to help patients struggling with questions and barriers in their attempts to parent. The inclusion of personal accounts of mothers on issues such as stigma, fears and discrimination in the context of parenting with a mental illness is intended to promote the message of mental illness recovery to a larger audience as well. Finally, it is hoped that this handbook will help inspire more research on mothers with mental illness and the creation of more services tailored to their needs.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319013181
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Despite the importance of regaining social roles during recovery from mental illness, the intersection between motherhood and serious mental illness is often overlooked. This book aims to rectify that neglect. A series of introductory chapters describing current research and services available to mothers with serious mental illness are followed by personal accounts of clients reflecting on their parenting experiences. One goal of the book is to provide clinicians with information that they can use to help patients struggling with questions and barriers in their attempts to parent. The inclusion of personal accounts of mothers on issues such as stigma, fears and discrimination in the context of parenting with a mental illness is intended to promote the message of mental illness recovery to a larger audience as well. Finally, it is hoped that this handbook will help inspire more research on mothers with mental illness and the creation of more services tailored to their needs.
If You Love Me
Author: Maureen Cavanagh
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1250297354
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Maureen Cavanagh’s gripping memoir If You Love Me is the story of a mother who suddenly finds herself on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic as her daughter battles—and ultimately reckons with—substance use disorder. Fast-paced and heartwarming, devastating and redemptive, Maureen’s incredible odyssey into the opioid crisis—first as a parent, then as an advocate—is ultimately a deeply moving mother-daughter story. When Maureen and her ex-husband Mike see their daughter Katie’s needle track marks for the first time, it is a complete shock. But, slowly, the drug use explains everything—Katie’s constant exhaustion, erratic moods, and all those spoons that have gone missing from the house. Once Mike and Maureen get Katie into detox, Maureen goes to sleep that night hoping that in 48 hours she’ll have her daughter back. It’s not that simple. Like the millions of parents and relatives all over the country—some of whom she has helped through her nonprofit organization—Maureen learns that recovery is neither straightforward nor brief. She fights to save Katie’s life, breaking down doors on the seedy side of town with Mike, kidnapping Katie outside a convenience store, and battling the taboo around substance use disorder in her picturesque New England town. Maureen is launched into the shadowy world of overcrowded, for-profit rehabilitation centers that often prey on worried parents. As Katie runs away from one program after another, never outrunning her pain, Maureen realizes that even while she becomes an expert on getting countless men and women into detox and treatment centers, she remains powerless to save her own daughter. Maureen's unforgettable story brings the opioid crisis out of the shadows and into the house next door.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1250297354
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Maureen Cavanagh’s gripping memoir If You Love Me is the story of a mother who suddenly finds herself on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic as her daughter battles—and ultimately reckons with—substance use disorder. Fast-paced and heartwarming, devastating and redemptive, Maureen’s incredible odyssey into the opioid crisis—first as a parent, then as an advocate—is ultimately a deeply moving mother-daughter story. When Maureen and her ex-husband Mike see their daughter Katie’s needle track marks for the first time, it is a complete shock. But, slowly, the drug use explains everything—Katie’s constant exhaustion, erratic moods, and all those spoons that have gone missing from the house. Once Mike and Maureen get Katie into detox, Maureen goes to sleep that night hoping that in 48 hours she’ll have her daughter back. It’s not that simple. Like the millions of parents and relatives all over the country—some of whom she has helped through her nonprofit organization—Maureen learns that recovery is neither straightforward nor brief. She fights to save Katie’s life, breaking down doors on the seedy side of town with Mike, kidnapping Katie outside a convenience store, and battling the taboo around substance use disorder in her picturesque New England town. Maureen is launched into the shadowy world of overcrowded, for-profit rehabilitation centers that often prey on worried parents. As Katie runs away from one program after another, never outrunning her pain, Maureen realizes that even while she becomes an expert on getting countless men and women into detox and treatment centers, she remains powerless to save her own daughter. Maureen's unforgettable story brings the opioid crisis out of the shadows and into the house next door.
Mother Me
Author: Zara H Phillips
Publisher: Gemma
ISBN: 1934848867
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The adopted daughter of loving parents, Zara Phillips felt out of place since childhood. Although cherished, she grew up deeply insecure and alone, consumed by a void she found impossible to fill. Isolation led to alienation, until her talent brought her to the center of the heady London rock ‘n’ roll scene of the 1980s. Zara became lost in a downward spiral of drugs, alcohol and destructive relationships. An intense search for the truth of her birth led to an awakening and then to recovery. Zara’s activism for adoptee rights springs from a very personal passion. In the end, it was Zara’s experience of becoming a mother that revealed what being adopted really meant. For the first time, she gained deep understanding and compassion for both her birth mother and her adoptive mother and was able to start the healing process. Mother Me bravely illuminates the lifelong impact of adoption on every member of the adoption triad—adoptee, birth mother and adoptive mother—as well as the families of each. The tale of Zara’s search for her birth mother and her path to recovery is riveting, as are the stories of many people sharing her past.
Publisher: Gemma
ISBN: 1934848867
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The adopted daughter of loving parents, Zara Phillips felt out of place since childhood. Although cherished, she grew up deeply insecure and alone, consumed by a void she found impossible to fill. Isolation led to alienation, until her talent brought her to the center of the heady London rock ‘n’ roll scene of the 1980s. Zara became lost in a downward spiral of drugs, alcohol and destructive relationships. An intense search for the truth of her birth led to an awakening and then to recovery. Zara’s activism for adoptee rights springs from a very personal passion. In the end, it was Zara’s experience of becoming a mother that revealed what being adopted really meant. For the first time, she gained deep understanding and compassion for both her birth mother and her adoptive mother and was able to start the healing process. Mother Me bravely illuminates the lifelong impact of adoption on every member of the adoption triad—adoptee, birth mother and adoptive mother—as well as the families of each. The tale of Zara’s search for her birth mother and her path to recovery is riveting, as are the stories of many people sharing her past.
Drug Misuse and Motherhood
Author: Marcia Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134485905
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The growing use of illicit drugs among women has become a major concern for health professionals and social services. The reluctance of drug-using women to seek help from drug agencies and to disclose their use of drugs to ante-natal, midwifery and social services is now officially recognised by government agencies. However, devising an appropriate strategy that will overcome these fears will not be easy without a better understanding of their causes and effects. Drug Misuse and Motherhood gives drug-using mothers a voice. Based on longitudinal research and in-depth interviews it provides new insights and much-needed information in five key areas: * family life * pregnancy * motherhood * service delivery and development * implications for policy. The user-perspective of this book is balanced by the professional viewpoint on the same issues. It offers a unique source of data for researchers and fresh inspiration for practitioners working in the field.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134485905
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The growing use of illicit drugs among women has become a major concern for health professionals and social services. The reluctance of drug-using women to seek help from drug agencies and to disclose their use of drugs to ante-natal, midwifery and social services is now officially recognised by government agencies. However, devising an appropriate strategy that will overcome these fears will not be easy without a better understanding of their causes and effects. Drug Misuse and Motherhood gives drug-using mothers a voice. Based on longitudinal research and in-depth interviews it provides new insights and much-needed information in five key areas: * family life * pregnancy * motherhood * service delivery and development * implications for policy. The user-perspective of this book is balanced by the professional viewpoint on the same issues. It offers a unique source of data for researchers and fresh inspiration for practitioners working in the field.