Sökning: "Drug abuse"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 117 avhandlingar innehållade orden Drug abuse.
16. Psychoanalytic Conceptions of the Mind in Drug Abusers : Methods Exploring Personality Disorders, Traits, and Defense Mechanisms
Sammanfattning : The purpose of the present thesis was to explore the theoretical and clinical implications of personality disorders (PDs), personality traits, and defense mechanisms in drug abusers diagnosed with psychosis and PDs. The prospect was, via four empirical studies and one paper of discussing methodology, to increase the psychodynamic understanding, which might improve the precision in planning treatments for drug abusers. LÄS MER
17. Three Realities : Women in different phases of drug abuse - a social psychological investigation
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study was to systematically examine the social, cultural and psychological situation of a group of women with drug addiction, and to gain an understanding of it. Different theoretical perspectives were utilized in efforts to understand and explain why some young women start using drugs. LÄS MER
18. Enhancing Health Among Drug Users in Prison
Sammanfattning : Four interrelated studies on drug users in prison are presented within the framework of a proposed model for approaching the enhancement of health for persons that builds on an existential view of prisoners’ needs, as well as the risk management and “good lives” perspectives. Risk management is the major focus in current offender rehabilitation based on research on “what works,” which has shown that focusing treatment on risk factors termed “criminogenic needs,” such as impulsivity, poor family relations and drug abuse, reduces recidivism by 10-15 percentage points. LÄS MER
19. Making drugs ethnic : Khat and minority drug use in Sweden
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to study how discourses and problem representations have made some drugs and some forms of drug use into “ethnic problems” in Sweden and in Scandinavia. The primary example of such a process discussed in the dissertation concerns the use of the psychoactive and criminalized plant khat. LÄS MER
20. Fri från narkotika : om kvinnor och män som har varit narkotikamissbrukare
Sammanfattning : The two aims of the study are to describe and analyse: i) how drug abusers have transformed their lives from the time when they did not use drugs, to becoming drug abusers, and finally leaving drugs behind them; and ii) what it means to be socially integrated with one's experience of having been a drug abuser. The study builds on qualitative research interviews with seven women and seven men. LÄS MER
