Perspectives on Person-Environment Interaction and Drug-Taking Behavior

First published in 1987, Perspectives on Person-Environment Interaction and Drug-Taking Behavior provides a comprehensive overview of the interactionist approach from both a theoretical and applied perspective. Divided into five chapters, it deals with crucial themes of substance use and alcoholism.

Bernard Segal

Preface 1. Psychosocial Interactionism and Substance Use 2. Social Sanctions, Self-Referent Responses, and the Continuation of Substance Abuse: A Person-Environment Interaction Perspective 3. The Interaction of Child and Environment in the Early Development of Drug Involvement: A Far Ranging Review and a Planned Very Early Intervention 4. Towards a Reconceptualization of Person- Environment Interactions: Applications to Research on Drinking Behavior 5. The Disease Theory of Alcoholism from an Interactionist Perspective: The Consequences of Self-Delusion