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OverviewResearch and clinical experiences show that people engaging in drug addiction for some years usually embrace severe mental illnesses including schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Schizophrenia usually occurs in patients with prolonged use of amphetamine and hallucinogens. Borderline personality disorder commonly happens in female addicts who have experienced abandonment and childhood abuse. On the one hand, drug addiction can be used to cope with symptoms of severe mental illness. On the other hand, prolonged drug addiction can also induce severe mental illness. A close look into individuals with chronic drug addiction usually review that they encounter suffering, hardship and traumas. There are two types of traumas encountered by people with drug addiction. The first one is trauma before drug addiction and substance abuse. Many of them may have suffered through abuse, oppression and abandonment in their lives. Another one is drug led traumas because of psychosocial deprivation and medical problems induced by chronic addiction. In this book, apart from describing a comprehensive model in understanding and interpreting the complexity of trauma, mental illness and drug addiction, this model is applied and illustrated in clients with borderline personality disorder and schizophrenia, drug addiction and those who have experience different forms of trauma. Related psychosocial interventions are also thoroughly discussed. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kam-shing Yip , Agnes Lau , Mandy Au Yeung , Bonnie Mak Karis LauPublisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc Imprint: Nova Science Publishers Inc Weight: 0.396kg ISBN: 9781536140200ISBN 10: 1536140201 Pages: 199 Publication Date: 01 September 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface; Challenges in Working with People with Chronic Drug Addiction; Drug Addiction, Trauma and Mental Illness: Complexity and Comprehensiveness; Understanding and Intervention for People with Drug Addiction, Abandonment Trauma and Borderline Personality Disorder; Understanding and Intervention for People with Drug Addiction Oppression, Abuse and Psychosis; Index.ReviewsAuthor InformationKam-shing Yip,Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |