Addiction Studies and Developmental Disabilities: Books and Ebooks

This book provides easy-to-access, reliable, up-to-date information on the numerous advances in research, assessment, treatment, and service delivery for clinicians, academics, administrators and other mental health professionals. It examines issues surrounding intellectual and developmental disabilities in a real-world sociopolitical framework.

This volume assembles the latest thinking on working with clients who have both mental health diagnoses and substance use disorders.

"Presents current research from across education, psychology, disability studies, and medicine. Enriches and expands directions for future practice. Offers a neurodiversity perspective on autism myths." --from publisher

This book explores the stigma of addiction and discusses ways to improve negative attitudes for better health outcomes.

This volume provides a thorough and up-to-date synthesis of the expansive and highly influential literature from the last 30 years by bringing together contributions from leading authorities in the field, with emphasis placed on the most commonly investigated drugs of abuse.

A comprehensive resource that will be of importance to anyone with a personal connection to a child or adult with a neurodevelopmental disorder.

A reference guide that answers the questions people have about addiction and addictive behaviors of all kinds, including drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, Internet usage, and more.

A history of addiction and its treatment in the United States.

Follows the development of individuals with intellectual disabilities from conception through birth, infancy, and early childhood, and then through the elementary school, adolescent, and adult years.

Focuses on facilitating quality of life and intervening in effective, evidence-based ways with people with IDD, including those with ASD, adolescents transitioning to adulthood, aging adults, and people with dual diagnoses.

[N.B.: While some of the terminology this book uses for intellectual disabilities is now considered out-of-date, it nevertheless contains information that provides valuable context about such disabilities in American culture and medicine. Inclusion of this book does not constitute an endorsement of the use of such terminology by the Library.]

"Beginning with an examination of the early nineteenth century labeling of mental retardation as 'idiocy,' to what we call developmental, intellectual, or learning disabilities, Mental Retardation in America chronicles the history of mental retardation, its treatment and labeling, and its representations and ramifications within the changing economic, social, and political context of America." --from publisher