Reviews : Separation, Divorce and Families Lisa Parkinson MacMillan Education, 1987, 156pp
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058903600107 |
| Published date | 01 March 1989 |
| Author | Liz Bullingham |
| Date | 01 March 1989 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
REVIEWS
Comments, contributions and sugges-
tions
to Keith Skerman, Probation Of-
fice, 346 Kensington High Street,
London
W14 8NS. Tel 01-603 5511.
Addictions
cluded in an approach to addictions.
Jara Krivanek
Criminalising drug abuse is one quick,
Allen &
Unwin, 1988.
facile solution, as is medicalising it. The
political need for single solutions over-
This offers a broad analysis of chemical
rides the more eclectic, limited, practic-
dependencies from an Australian
al approach this book usefully advo-
psychologist. It gives a balanced and
cates. This book is a welcome addition
historical account of dependencies in
to the field, and Probation practitioners
Western society, drawing a single para-
could do well to consider her wider
llel between the focus on alcohol in the
analysis as well as grasp the practice
19th century and that on heroin in the
issues she puts forward.
late 20th century. Krivanek goes on to a
more detailed, clinical and sociological
Keith Skerman
analysis of heroin addiction. The book
SPO, Inner London
is in plain, non-specialist language
which makes it easy and accessible. It
Separation, Divorce and
would be a good introduction to those
Families
with little recent knowledge of work in
Lisa Parkinson
this field.
MacMillan Education, 1987, 156pp.
This study is limited by its concen-
tration on one type of dependency, he-
One of BASW’s ’Practical Social Work’
roin. This proved a reasonable example
series, the book is relatively brief, and a
of the author’s main approach that
painless read. There is an excellent bib-
’addiction is a property of the user’, not
liography of undoubted value to any
drugs as such. The dismantling of
civil work practitioner occasionally
myths about drugs and the critical look
moved to ’read something’. Current
at ’illness’, ’crime’, ’dependency’ ex-
areas of concern in the field are ex-
planations for addiction is put very
amined ; family courts, the boundaries
well. The case study of heroin abuse
...
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