Enhancing Health Among Drug Users in Prison

This dissertation in psychology looks at ways of
enhancing the health of drug users in prison. A new
screening instrument for drug use disorders is
presented, and separate prison studies evaluate
auricular acupuncture as well as cognitive-
behavioral treatment. An approach to treatment of
inmates with so-called dual diagnosis - drug use and
psychiatric disorders - is also explored in a pilot
study of long-term auricular acupuncture. The
empirical results are discussed within the framework
of recent findings on offender rehabilitation and
treatment for drug use. Based on perspectives of
risk management, "good lives" and existential
psychology, a new model for enhancing health among
drug users in prison is proposed. This work should
be of particular interest to practitioners,
teachers, researchers and students in the areas of
psychology, social work, criminology and addiction,
psychiatric and forensic medicine.

Autorentext

Anne H Berman, PhD, licensed psychologist and psychotherapist, works clinically at the Stockholm Center for Dependency Disorders and conducts research at Karolinska Institutet's Center for Research in Psychiatry. Her doctoral dissertation won a prize for Best PhD Dissertation at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University in 2004.

Klappentext

This dissertation in psychology looks at ways of enhancing the health of drug users in prison. A new screening instrument for drug use disorders is presented, and separate prison studies evaluate auricular acupuncture as well as cognitive-behavioral treatment. An approach to treatment of inmates with so-called dual diagnosis - drug use and psychiatric disorders - is also explored in a pilot study of long-term auricular acupuncture. The empirical results are discussed within the framework of recent findings on offender rehabilitation and treatment for drug use. Based on perspectives of risk management, "good lives" and existential psychology, a new model for enhancing health among drug users in prison is proposed. This work should be of particular interest to practitioners, teachers, researchers and students in the areas of psychology, social work, criminology and addiction, psychiatric and forensic medicine.