Principi socijalno-psihološkog dijagnostikovanja alkoholizma u socijalnom radu
Principles Of Social-Psychological Diagnostics Of Alcoholism In Social Work

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the ecosystemic concept of emergence and duration of alcoholism according to which the emergence and duration of alcoholism (and other addictions) is considered an illness of individual, family and society. It also implies a practical attitude that revealing and diagnostics of alcoholism can first start through analysis of disturbed family and social interactions and only after be searched for in medical/biological symptoms. According to this concept, identification of addiction to alcohol followed by diagnostic and therapeutic procedures make an unbreakable and continual process. It also emphasizes the fact that medical criteria for diagnostics of alcoholism are the most clear and scientifically most objective, however without providing timely diagnosis and efficient treatment. It particularly points to difficulties in process of identification of addiction to alcohol outside health institutions due to reduction of „social visibility” (mimicry of alcoholism) i.e. due to reduction of recognizability of pathological forms of behavior and alcohol drinking in family and social relations.

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