Drinking, Conduct Disorder, and Social Change: Navajo Experiences

Based on interviews with more than a thousand Navajo Indian men and women, this book examines the associations between childhood experiences and behavior and the development of alcohol dependence in adulthood. Because Navajo life has changed markedly over the past two generations, it also examines the role of urbanization and universal school in reshaping Navajo youth and considers the implications for changing patterns of alcohol use in adulthood. In addition the book explores a wide range of timely issues such as domestic violence, factors associated with resistance to alcohol abuse as well as remission and recovery, the treatment and prevention of alcohol dependence, and the implications of pursuing either population-based preventive interventions or interventions focussed on high risk individuals or groups.


Author: Stephen J. Kunitz, Jerrold E. Levy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/06/2000
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.62w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9780195136159

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2000 pg. 36

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