Alcohol Problems in Women: Antecedents, Consequences, and Intervention - Hardcover

Alcohol Problems in Women: Antecedents, Consequences, and Intervention, Book by Sharon C. Wilsnack. SHARON C. WILSNACK received her B.A. from Kansas State University, her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Harvard University, and studied as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany. She is presently Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Wilsnack's background includes experience as a substance abuse therapist and treatment program director as well as in research and medical education. Sharon Wilsnack and Richard Wilsnack direct a 20-year longitudinal study of drinking behavior in U.S. women, and coordinate an international collaborative research project on gender and alcohol that involves researchers from more than 40 countries. Sharon Wilsnack is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. She served as a member of the Institute of Medicine's Committee to Study Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, as a member of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism/National Institutes of Health, and on numerous other boards and advisory groups concerned with alcohol abuse and women's health. She was a member and panel chair of the NIAAA Task Force on College Drinking and a member of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment's Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Consensus Panel on Special Needs of Women in Substance Abuse Treatment.