Addiction, Behavioral Change and Social Identity

Sarah A. Buckingham is a Freelance Researcher. Previously Sarah has worked as an integrative psychotherapist in the NHS and as a Froebel trained primary school teacher. She is also a practising artist. David Best is Professor of Criminology and Head of Research in the Department of Law and Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University, UK and is Associate Professor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

• 1. Introducing addiction, behavioural change and social identity 2. Applying the Social Identity Approach in Clinical and Health Domains: Key Principles and Insights 3. Addiction recovery, mutual-help organizations and social identity 4. Using social identity to promote health: The impact of group memberships on health in the context of obesity 5. Group identification and addictive health behaviours in adolescents 6. Addiction to crime and a social identity of recovery 7. The associative model of social identification (ARMS): With a particular emphasis upon addiction, behavioral change and social identity 8. Developing the Social Identity Model of Cessation Maintenance: Theory, Evidence and Implications 9. Online support communities in addiction recovery: capturing social interaction and identity change through analyses of online communication 10. Social Identity Mapping: Measuring social identity change in recovery from addiction 11. Building Bridges to Positive Social Identities: The Social Network Diagram and Opiate Substitution Treatment 12. Addiction, Behavioural Change and Social Identity-Overview and concluding comments