The Essential Guide to Psychoactive Drugs in Canada: A Resource for Counselling Professionals - Softcover

Csiernik, Rick

9781773381602: The Essential Guide to Psychoactive Drugs in Canada: A Resource for Counselling Professionals

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ISBN 10: 1773381601 ISBN 13: 9781773381602

Verlag: Canadian Scholars, 2019

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The second edition of the formerly titled Just Say Know: A Counsellor’s Guide to Psychoactive Drugs, this indispensable counselling resource provides a practical understanding of psychoactive drug pharmacology and physiology. Rick Csiernik unpacks the risks and therapeutic applications of the most commonly used and misused drug families, including depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and psychotherapeutics. This new edition features a wide range of updated research and content addressing the recent rise of opioid, fentanyl, cannabis, novel psychoactive substances, and antipsychotic medication use, as well as the impacts of drug use on sleep and mental health. Two new appendixes are featured summarizing the effects of drugs on pregnancy and interactions drugs may have with certain brain chemicals.

The Essential Guide to Psychoactive Drugs in Canada is the perfect addition to any addiction or mental health-related course. User-friendly and highly readable, this resource serves as a guide for service providers to deliver evidence-based care. This text is crucial for counsellors, therapists, instructors, and students looking to acquire an in-depth practical understanding of drug use, medication, and addiction in disciplines such as social work, sociology, pharmacology, health studies, nursing, psychology, and addiction studies.

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Includes quizzes, learning activities, and case studies
Features two new appendixes with additional learning materials
Uses accessible language suitable for second-year college and first-year undergraduate courses

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Rick Csiernik is a Professor of Social Work at King’s College, University of Western Ontario. Csiernik has authored and edited several popular Canadian Scholars' titles including: Just Say Know: A Counsellor's Guide to Psychoactive Drugs (2014), Workplace Wellness (2014); Responding to the Oppression of Addiction (co-edited with William S. Rowe, 2017); Substance Use and Abuse (2016); The Drug Paradox (with Tara Bruno, 2018), and Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Health (co-edited with Cheryl Forchuk and Elsabeth Jensen, 2011). The author of more than 100 journal articles, his research interests include addiction, employee assistance programming and workplace wellness, social work education, and program evaluation. Rick has been recipient of both the King’s University College Award for Excellence in Teaching and the McMaster University Instructor Appreciation Award.

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Now in its second edition, The Essential Guide to Psychoactive Drugs in Canada (formerly titled Just Say Know: A Counsellor’s Guide to Psychoactive Drugs) addresses critical and emerging concerns in drug use and misuse. This indispensable counselling resource provides a practical understanding of drug pharmacology and physiology, demystifying how and why psychoactive drugs produce their effects. By unpacking the risks and therapeutic applications of the most commonly used and misused drug families—depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and psychotherapeutics—Rick Csiernik considers psychoactive drugs through a holistic, bio-psycho-social lens.

With well-updated content based on current research, Csiernik examines pressing issues within the Canadian context, including the relationships between drug use, disrupted sleep, and mental health; the effects of drugs on pregnancy; and the rise of opioids, fentanyl, cannabis, novel psychoactive substances, and antipsychotic medication use. Critical topics are presented in a highly accessible style that is light on jargon and heavy on evidence. Case studies, quizzes, and updated supplementary resources make this guide an essential tool for students in addictions-related programs, as well as for counsellors, educators, therapists, and social workers. Comprehensive and up to date, this new edition supplies the practical footing that every service provider needs to dispense sound, evidence-based care.

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