
The Handbook of Alcohol Use
Understandings from Synapse to Society
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Alcohol use is complex and multifaceted. Our understanding must be also. Alcohol use, both problematic and not, can be understood at many levels – from basic biological systems through to global public health interventions. To provide the multi-level perspective needed to address this complexity, the Handbook of Alcohol Use draws together an eclectic set of authors, including both researchers and practitioners, to examine the causes, processes and effects of alcohol consumption. Specifically, this book approaches the topic from biological, individual cognition, small group/systems, and domestic/global population perspectives. Each examines alcohol use differently and each offers its own ways to combat problematic behavior. While these alternative viewpoints are sometimes construed as incompatible or antagonistic, the current volume also explores how they can be complimentary.In summary, the Handbook of Alcohol Use brings together an international group of experts to explore how alcohol use can be understood from various perspectives and how these conceptualizations relate. In doing so, it allows us to understand alcohol consumption, and our responses to it, more from an account which spans ‘from synapse to society’.
Key Features
- Explores alcohol use from individual through to societal levels
- Synthesizes these varied levels of analysis on alcohol use
- Draws on an international team of experts including researchers and alcohol treatment practitioners
- Makes clear the implications of research for practice (and vice versa)
Readership
Researchers, professors, and students in the field of psychology and addiction, health psychology, and the biology of addiction. Secondary markets include those in public health and policy change
Table of Contents
- Section 1. Positioning alcohol use and misuse
1. Contemplating the micro and macro of alcohol use and misuse to enable meta-understandings
Ian P. Albery and Daniel Frings
2. The world’s favorite drug: What we have learned about alcohol from over 500,000 respondents to the Global Drug Survey
Emma L. Davies, Cheneal Puljevic, Dean Connolly, Ahnjili Zhuparris, Jason A. Ferris and Adam R. Winstock
3. Transparency and replication in alcohol research
Katie Drax and Marcus R. Munafo
Section 2. Within the body and mind
4. Alcohol and mental health: Co-occurring alcohol use and mental health disorders
Raffaella Margherita Milani and Luisa Perrino
5. The pharmacological understandings of alcohol use and misuse
Abigail Rose and Andrew Jones
6. Learning from the dead: How death provides insights into alcohol-related harm
Shane Darke
Section 3. The individual
7. Levels of cognitive understanding: Reflective and impulsive cognition in alcohol use and misuse
Dinkar Sharma and James Cane
8. Social cognition in severe alcohol use disorder
Fabien D’Hondt, Benjamin Rolland and Pierre Maurage
9. Metacognitive therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder: Theoretical foundations and treatment principles
Giovanni Mansueto, Gabriele Caselli and Marcantonio M. Spada
10. Promoting problem recognition amongst harmful drinkers: A conceptual model for problem framing factors
James Morris, Ian P. Albery, Antony C. Moss and Nick Heather
11. A psychological-systems goal-theory model of alcohol consumption and treatment
W. Miles Cox and Eric Klinger
12. Alcohol consumption in context: The effect of psych-socio-environmental drivers
Rebecca Monk and Derek Heim
Section 4. The group
13. I can keep up with the best: The role of social norms in alcohol consumption and their use in interventions
Sandra Kuntsche, Robin Room and Emmanuel Kuntsche
14. Alcohol consumption and group decision making
Hirotaka Imada, Tim Hopthrow and Dominic Abrams
15. An identity-based explanatory framework for alcohol use and misuse
Daniel Frings and Ian P. Albery
Section 5. Cultural questions
16. Alcohol consumption and cultural systems: Global similarities and differences
Miyuki Fukushima Tedor
17. Alcohol and the legal system: Effects of alcohol on eyewitness testimony
Julie Gawrylowicz and Georgina Bartlett
18. Spiritual and religious influences
Paramabandhu Groves
19. Alcohol use in adolescence across U.S. race/ethnicity: Considering cultural factors in prevention and interventions
Leah M. Bouchard, Sunny H. Shin and Karen G. Chartier
20. Alcohol use and misuse: Perspectives from seldom heard voices
Tran H. Le, Anthony M. Foster, Phoenix R. Crane and Amelia E. Talley
Section 6. Taking it into practice
21. Theory-driven interventions: How social cognition can help
Kristen P. Lindgren, Angelo M. DiBello, Kirsten P. Peterson and Clayton Neighbors
22. Taking social identity into practice
Genevieve A. Dingle, Isabella Ingram, Catherine Haslam and Peter J. Kelly
23. Working together: Opportunities and barriers to evidence-based practice
Jan Larkin and Daniel Donkor
24. Transdermal alcohol monitors: Research, applications, and future directions
Catharine E. Fairbairn and Dahyeon Kang
25. Recovery from addiction: A synthesis of perspectives from behavioral economics, psychology, and decision modeling
Amber Copeland, Tom Stafford and Matt Field
Section 7. Future directions
26. Alcohol addiction: A disorder of self-regulation but not a disease of the brain
Nick Heather
Product details
- No. of pages: 678
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2021
- Published: January 17, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128167205
- eBook ISBN: 9780128168868
About the Authors
Daniel Frings
Daniel Frings is Professor of Social Psychology at London South Bank University. He is a widely published and cited author, with work including academic journal articles, various book chapters, a popular press psychology book, and a concise overview of social psychology aimed at students. His research focuses primarily on social identity processes, with a special interest in addiction. He also has research interests in the fields of mental health and psychophysiology and consults on the design and evaluation of digital mental health products. He is currently Chair of London South Bank University Ethics Panel, directs an MSc in Addictive Psychology and Counselling and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Social Psychology (Wiley).
Affiliations and Expertise
Associate Professor, London South Bank University, UK
Ian Albery
Ian P. Albery is Professor of Psychology and Founding Head of the Centre for Addictive Behaviours Research at London South Bank University. His research focuses on how people’s identity derived from their group membership affects their addictive behaviour, how the types of messages we use to try to get people to think about and change their behaviours operate, why it is that people are influenced by and have a preference for certain cues in their environments (and how this influences what they do), why some people recognize that they have a “problem” but others do not, and what effects alcohol has on witness memory. This work has been published widely as journal articles, books and chapters in books. He is on the Editor Board of Addictive Behaviors and Addictive Behaviors Reports.
Affiliations and Expertise
Director of Research and Enterprise, School of Applied Sciences, London South Bank University, UK