DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/70d8ed/fetal_alcohol_spec) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Management and Policy Perspectives of FASD" to their offering.
Reflecting the recent increased public awareness of the topic, this is the first and most comprehensive resource for over a decade on the molecular basis, prevalence, treatment options, socioeconomic impact and prevention strategies of FASD.
Edited by world-renowned experts, this compendium includes the latest research results to provide new insights and realistic estimations of FASD frequencies in Western communities.
An invaluable resource for every professional dealing with the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of FASD, from researchers via health professionals to social workers.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Prenatal Alcohol Exposure, FAS, and FASD: An Introduction (Tanya T. Nguyen, Jennifer Coppens, and Edward P. Riley).
PART ONE INCIDENCE, PREVALENCE AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF FASD.
2. Researching the Prevalence and Characteristics of FASD in International Settings (Philip A. May).
3. Frequency of FASD in Canada and What This Means for Prevention Efforts (Suzanne C. Tough and Monica Jack).
4. Costs of FASD (Ngyuen Xuan Thanh, Egon Jonsson, Liz Dennett and Philip Jacobs).
PART TWO CAUSES AND DIAGNOSING OF FASD
5. Direct and Indirect Mechanisms of Alcohol Teratogenesis: Implications for Understanding Alterations in Brain and Behaviour in FASD (Kristina A. Uban, Tamara Bodnar, Kelly Butts, Joanna H. Sliwowska, Wendy Comeau and Joanne Weinberg).
6. Genetic Factors Contributing to FASD (Albert E. Chudley).
7. Diagnosis of FASD: An Overview (Gail Andrew).
PART THREE PREVENTION POLICIES AND PROGRAMS.
8. FASD: A Preconception Prevention Initiative (Lola Baydala, Stephanie Worrell, and Fay Fletcher).
9. Bringing a Women's Health Perspective to FASD Prevention (Nancy Poole).
10. Next Steps in FASD Primary Prevention (Robin Thurmeier, Sameer Deshpande, Anne Lavack, Noreen Agrey, and Madgalena Cismaru).
11. Preventing FASD: The Parent-Child Assistance Program (PCAP) Intervention with High-Risk Mothers (Therese M. Grant).
12. FASD in the Perspective of Primary Health Care (June Bergman).
PART FOUR FASD AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM.
13. The Manitoba FASD Youth Justice Program: Addressing Criminal Justice Issues (Mary Kate Harvie, Sally E.A. Longstaffe, and Albert E.Chudley).
14. Understanding FASD: Disability and Social Supports for Adult Offenders (E. Sharon Brintnell, Patricia G. Bailey, Anjili Sawhney, Laura Kreftin).
15. Policy Development in FASD for Individuals and Families Across the Lifespan (Dorothy Badry and Aileen Wight Felske).
16. The Impact of FASD: Children with FASD Involved with the Manitoba Child Welfare System (Linda Burnside, Don Fuchs, Shelagh Marchenski, Andria Mudry, Linda De Riviere, Marni Brownell, and Matthew Dahl).
17. British Columbia's Key Worker and Parent Support Program: Evaluation Highlights and Implications for Practice and Policy (Deborah Rutman, Carol Hubberstey, and Sharon Hume).
18. FASD and Education Policy: Issues and Directions (Elisabeth Bredberg).
19. Shifting Responsibility from the Individual to the Community (Audrey McFarlane).
20. A Social Work Perspective on Policies to Prevent Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy (Mary Diana (Vandenbrink) Berube). Appendix to Chapter 20.
21. A Cross-Ministry Approach to FASD Across the Lifespan in Alberta (Denise Milne, Tim Moorhouse, Kesa Shikaze, and Cross-Ministry Members).
22. Critical Considerations for Intervention Planning for Children with FASD (John D. McLennan).
PART FIVE RESEARCH NEEDED ON FASD.
23. FASD Research in Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention: Building the Next Generation of Health and Social Policy Responses? (Amy Salmon, Sterling Clarren).
24. Focusing Research Efforts: What Further Research into FASD is Needed? (Sara Jo Nixon, Robert A. Prather, and Rebecca J. Gilbertson).
PART SIX PERSONAL VIEWS FROM PEOPLE LIVING WITH FASD.
25. Living with FASD (Myles Himmelreich).
26. Charlene's Journey (Charlene Organ).
Index
Author:
EDWARD P. RILEY is a Distinguished Professor in Psychology and Director of the Center for Behavioral Teratology, San Diego State University. Having received his PhD from Tulane University he has spent most of his career researching the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure. He has authored over 225 scientific publications and has received numerous awards, including the Research Society on Alcoholism Distinguished Researcher Award, James Tharp Distinguished Researcher Award, the Henry Rosett Distinguished Investigator Award, a MERIT Award from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Organization on FAS Research Recognition Award. He chaired the US National Task Force on FAS/FAE between 2000-2004 and currently serves on the NIH Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
STERLING CLARREN is CEO and Scientific Director of the Canada Northwest FASD Research Network and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and the University of Washington, Seattle. He wrote the first major summary article of the clinical pattern of malformation associated with alcohol teratogenesis in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1978. He was co-author of the 4-Digit Diagnostic Code for FAS and related conditions. Sterling Clarren developed one of the first pediatric clinics focused on the difficult diagnosis of FAS and related conditions. In 2001 he was given the Henry Rosett Award by the Fetal Alcohol Study Group of the Research Society on Alcoholism. In 2006, he received the Award for Career Excellence from the National Organization for FAS in Wahington DC. He lectures internationally and has been a distinguished visiting professor at both Queen's University, and McGill University, Canada.
JOANNE WEINBERG is Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences at the University of British Columbia. She obtained her B.A. from Brown University, an M.A.T. in Natural Sciences from Harvard University, and a PhD in Neuro- and Biobehavioral Sciences from Stanford University Medical School. After Postdoctoral research at Stanford, the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of British Columbia, she joined the Faculty of Medicine at UBC in 1982. She has published more than 125 scientific papers, chapters and reviews, and has received numerous honors and awards, including UBC Killam Research and Killam Teaching Awards, the Henry Rosett Distinguished Investigator Award from the FASD Study Group of the Research Society on Alcoholism, and a MERIT award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
EGON JONSSON is Executive Director and CEO of the Institute of Health Economics, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary, public health services. For 20 years he was a professor of health economics at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. He was also director of the Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessment (SBU), worked for WHO Euro, and was a health policy advisor at the ministry of health in Hanoi, Vietnam. He has co-edited two successful Wiley-VCH titles during his time at SBU: "Treating and Preventing Obesity" and "Treating Alcohol and Drug Abuse".
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