Early Experience and the Life Path Nick Dubin Kim Etherington highlights the therapeutic

Kim Etherington highlights the therapeutic value of listening to drug misusers' life stories and the importance of understanding how social environments and the wider cultural influences shape people's lives

'The notation used has great promise as an extremely helpful conceptual tool for the group therapist in clinical work and research

helpful diagrams and clear information on each drug's effects

and offers a cost- and time-effective way of extending support to depressed or psychologically distressed patients

Early Experience and the Life Path Nick Dubin Kim Etherington highlights the therapeuticThis important book challenges the widely held assumption that early experience has a disproportionate effect on later development. Drawing from over forty years of rigorous empirical research and theoretical enquiry, Ann and Alan Clarke argue that the effects of early experiences are just the first steps in an ongoing and complex life path, on which the shaping or re shaping of development can occur in any period. The evidence they present for the