A Contemporary Approach to the Family Treatment of Substance Abuse Disorders

1986 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Kaufman
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Agus Supriyanto ◽  
Nurlita Hendiani

<span>People perception of Substance Abuse Disorders (GPZ) who are undergoing rehabilitation program on family support has a strong role recovery and relapse prevention. Measuring perception of family support is useful for family counseling development. The goal of research to find aspects of perception and a form family support from people with GPZ to recover from drug addiction on family support perception scale instruments. The research uses mixed methods approach with sequential transformative. Research instrument form documentation study in the form of text analysis, interview, and survey on individual GPZ/ N = 217. The research analysis with qualitative descriptive analysis of journal and book study, focus group discussion to the determination of statement points, and quantitative descriptive analysis from different test result to know validity and reliability of the instrument. The findings reveal the concept and operationalization of family support perception through two perception aspects, ie cognition, and affection. Forms of family support include (1) emotional support, (2) award support, (3) information support, and (4) concrete support. The family support perception scale has 46 valid statements with the value coefficient of Corrected Item-Total Correlation ≥ 0.148. The reliability coefficient of the family supported perception scale is 0.861 with the high-reliability category. The family support perception scale can be used to identify the level of family support on people with GPZ from drug addiction.</span>


Author(s):  
Tilman Wetterling ◽  
Klaus Junghanns

Abstract. Aim: This study investigates the characteristics of older patients with substance abuse disorders admitted to a psychiatric department serving about 250.000 inhabitants. Methods: The clinical diagnoses were made according to ICD-10. The data of the patients with substance abuse were compared to a matched sample of psychiatric inpatients without substance abuse as well as to a group of former substance abusers with long-term abstinence. Results: 19.3 % of the 941 patients aged > 65 years showed current substance abuse, 9.4 % consumed alcohol, 7.9 % took benzodiazepines or z-drugs (zolpidem and zopiclone), and 7.0 % smoked tobacco. Multiple substance abuse was rather common (30.8 %). About 85 % of the substance abusers had psychiatric comorbidity, and about 30 % showed severe withdrawal symptoms. As with the rest of the patients, somatic multimorbidity was present in about 70 % of the substance abusers. Remarkable was the lower rate of dementia in current substance abusers. Conclusion: These results underscore that substance abuse is still a challenge in the psychiatric inpatient treatment of older people.


2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Andersen ◽  
Rebecca Silver ◽  
Todd Bishop ◽  
Vanessa Tirone ◽  
Paige Ouimette

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