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Cognitive Study
| Published: June 25, 2020
Psychosocial theories of alcohol abuse: an understanding and its relevance
Consultant Psychiatric Social Work, District Mental Health Programe, Barabanki, (UP), India Google Scholar More about the auther
Consultant Psychiatric Social Work, State Institute of Mental Health, PD BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak (Govt of Haryana), India Google Scholar More about the auther
Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Sciences (RINPAS), Kanke, Ranchi, (Govt of Jharkhand), India. Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.096/20200802
DOI: 10.25215/0802.096
ABSTRACT
Alcohol abuse is reflected as a major public health concern in worldwide. It impaired many areas of life, including familial, vocational, psychological, legal, social, or physical aspects of life. These people are widely considered to be a vulnerable population. The purpose of this study is to explore the psychosocial theory related to alcohol abuse. Literature has been searched the both electronic databases including PubMed and manual searches for this. This article reviews the various theories related with alcoholism. Psychosocial theories of alcohol abuse can be utilized to identify and contextualize trends in major treatment approaches for the people of alcohol abuse and also provide possible future directions for research in that specific area.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2020, P. Prakash, P. Kumar & A. R. Singh
Received: May 09, 2020; Revision Received: June 19, 2020; Accepted: June 25, 2020
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.096/20200802
10.25215/0802.096
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Published in Volume 08, Issue 2, April- June, 2020