Women and Drinking: Preventing Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies
Dec 2016 · Hogrefe Publishing GmbH
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An essential resource for anyone providing help or services to women at risk for alcohol-exposed pregnancies. Drinking during pregnancy can cause a range of disabilities that have lifelong effects yet are 100% preventable. A variety of brief motivational behavioral interventions developed for nonpregnant women of childbearing age can effectively prevent alcohol-exposed pregnancies (AEP). This book outlines clinical definitions and the history of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), epidemiology and effects across the lifespan, evidence-based prevention practices such as CHOICES and CHOICES-like interventions, and opportunities for dissemination. Based on decades of scientific research and clinical refinement, this volume is packed with helpful illustrative case vignettes, therapist–patient dialogues, sample forms, and handouts. The information and resources presented will help a wide variety of practitioners in diverse settings, ranging from high-risk settings such as mental health and substance abuse treatment centers to primary care clinics and universities, deliver interventions targeting behavior change.
About the author
Dr. Mary Marden Velasquez is CentennialProfessor in Leadership forCommunity, Corporate, and ProfessionalExcellence and director of theHealth Behavior Research and TrainingProgram at the University ofTexas at Austin. Her research focuseson the development and testing ofbehavioral interventions in healthcaresettings, screening and brief interventions,group treatment forsubstance use, and preventing fetalalcohol spectrum disorder.
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