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Direct linkPhillips, J. G.; Currie, J.; Ogeil, R. P.; Vaeau, F. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2020
As health-related mobile apps have proliferated in recent years in USA and Australia, counsellor opinions were solicited to aid development of therapeutic apps. After being informed of the therapeutic potential of time and location-based reminders, 33 drug and alcohol counsellors from New Zealand and Australia answered an anonymous online survey.…
Descriptors: Counselor Attitudes, Psychotherapy, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Download full textHunter, Barbara; MacLean, Sarah; Berends, Lynda – Qualitative Report, 2012
The purpose of this paper is to show how "realist synthesis" methodology (Pawson, 2002) was adapted to review a large sample of community based projects addressing alcohol and drug use problems. Our study drew on a highly varied sample of 127 projects receiving funding from a national non-government organisation in Australia between 2002…
Descriptors: Evidence, Drug Use, Program Implementation, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedMalouff, John M.; Schutte, Nicola S. – Journal of Drug Education, 2002
Uses the Big Five personality factors as a framework for examining the expected personality characteristics of individuals who are alcohol-dependent. Results help explain prior findings about the social handicap of problem drinking with regard to making friends, dating, marriage, and working. Findings have potential use in alcohol-problem…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence
Aasland, Olaf Gjerlow; and Others – 1985
The aim of this study was to develop tools for screening and assessment of socio-medical effects of alcohol use which are simple and inexpensive enough to be used in any primary health care setting. A test protocol was prepared by a group of investigators from Australia, Bulgaria, Kenya, Mexico, Norway, and the United States. Based on a number of…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Cross Cultural Studies, Drinking, Foreign Countries
Blackman, Ian; de Crespigny, Charlotte; Parker, Steve – International Education Journal, 2006
This study seeks to identify factors that influence the perceived complexity of providing nursing care to others (who are dependent on alcohol and tobacco) and the confidence of undergraduate student nurses to carry out this care. The research project is designed to explore whether there is a difference between the perceived complexities of 57…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Nursing Students, Self Esteem, Nursing Education
Wilson, G. C. – 1984
Alcoholism, and particularly alcoholism in the family, is an unsolved medical and social problem. Addictive drinking results in several social and psychological problems, most of which are caused by a change in brain function. Excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages operates as a stressor and produces alkaloids at the base of the brain that are…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Attitude Change, Clinical Diagnosis, Community Problems
Peer reviewedKahn, Marvin W. – Journal of Rural Community Psychology, 1986
Compares high rates of psychosocial disorders found among American Indians, Eskimos, and Australian Aborigines. Relates high rates of disorders such as alcohol abuse, depression, suicide, family instability, delinquency, and accidental death to experiences of traditional cultures with western domination. Reviews major psychosocial explanations of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Alcoholism, American Indians
