Traditional Family Values and Substance Abuse (The Plenum Series in Culture and Health) (The Plenum Series in Culture and Health)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: January 31, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780306466199
Subjects: Clinical psychology; Drug addiction & substance abuse; Hispanic American Sociology; Social Deviance; Social Science; Self-Help; Sociology; New York; Mental Health; Psychopathology - Addiction; Substance Abuse & Addictions - General; Alcoholism; Medical : Mental Health; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Psychology : Psychopathology - Addiction; Public opinion; Self-Help / Substance Abuse; Ethnic Studies - General; Sociology - General; Alcohol use; Attitudes; Drug use; Puerto Ricans; United States
First sentence: The main goal of this volume is to show that adherence to a more traditionalist view of one's culture has the socially desired consequence of inhibiting the emergence of deviant behaviors such as alcohol and other forms of substance abuse.