Mental Health and Addiction Care in the Middle East

1. Introduction
Richard Isralowitz, Patricia A. Findley

Part I. Drug Use and Addiction

2. Drug Abuse in the Middle East: Promoting Mutual Interests Through Resistance and Resilience
Richard Isralowitz, Mohammed Afifi

3. Drug Use Among High-Risk People: Resistance and Resilience Factors
Richard Isralowitz, Alexander Reznik

4. Toward Uniform Data Collection and Monitoring of Israeli and Palestinian Adolescent Drug Use
Richard Isralowitz, Mohammed Afifi, Alexander Reznik

5. A Parenting and Self-Care Intervention for Substance-Using Mothers: Promoting Resilience Among Israeli and Palestinian People
Debra A. Murphy

6. Substance-Abusing Mothers: Toward an Understanding of Parenting and Risk Behavior
Mor Yehudai, Orly Sarid, Alexander Reznik, Patricia A. Findley, Richard Isralowitz

7. Cigarette Smoking Among Youth: A Regional Health Problem
Richard Isralowitz, Mohammed Afifi, Alexander Reznik, Steve Sussman

8. Immigration, Acculturation, and Drug Use
Alexander Reznik, Richard Isralowitz

Part II. Mental Health and Emergency Conditions: Promoting Human Resource Development

9. Disaster Relief Mental Health Resources: Community-Based Interventions and Implications for the Middle East
Rachel Alvarez, Patricia A. Findley

10. Psychological First Aid: A Tool for Mitigating Conflict in the Middle East
Patricia A. Findley, James Halpern, Rebecca Rodriguez, Karla Vermeulen

11. Collaborative Approaches to Addressing Mental Health and Addiction Care in the Middle East
Patricia A. Findley

Part III. Conclusion

12. Putting It Together: Final Thoughts on Two Decades of Mental Health and Addiction Development Efforts
Patricia A. Findley, Richard Isralowitz

Keywords: Psychology, Health Psychology, Psychiatry, Social Work, Cross Cultural Psychology