Learning About Drinking

How we learn about drinking and about acquiring the skills to drink safely or in a low risk manner has received relatively little attention with the professional literature. While the traditional concentration on alcohol-related problems is important, there is an emerging view of alcohol that focuses on non-pathological drinking patterns, practices, and behaviors. This book is based on the premise that drinking behaviors are primarily learned. The contributors to the book explore the complex array of individual and social factors that impact the development of drinking patterns. They traverse family and cultural influences, and the role played by schools, governments, and the beverage alcohol industry. Learning about Drinking offers a rigorous and scholarly examination of drinking behavior brought to life with illustrative cases drawn from around the world. Social policymakers, historians, anthropologists, public health specialists, as well as mental health professionals will find this book of great value. Learning about Drinking offers a refreshing, evidence-based look at a process that has too often been taken for granted.Houghton, Eleni is the author of 'Learning About Drinking' with ISBN 9781583913161 and ISBN 1583913165.