Artikel Psychological approaches to addiction

Question 1

describe the Psychoanalytic view on addiction

Answer 1

addiction in terms of this model is thought of as a form of defence against feelings of helplessness and hopelessness along with a failure to regulate powerful emotions stemming from early aversive childhood experiences. Addiction pro- vides a temporary but all-enveloping reprieve from such feelings, along with positive feelings of being in control and all-powerful that are not based in reality.

Question 2

describe addiction from a Classical Conditioning view

Answer 2

Question 3

describe addiction from a operant Conditioning view

Answer 3

Question 4

describe the Social Learning Theory point of view on addiction:

Answer 4

Through watching, making sense of and encoding how, for example, a parent uses alcohol to relax or socialise, we develop our own substance-related ‘outcome expectan- cies’. Such expectancies can consciously or unconsciously mediate our own behaviour towards initiating and continuing substance use

social contex like peer pressure and social deprevation are also found be be factors in addiction.

Question 5

cognitive approaches on addiction focus on? It is based on which four assumptions?

Answer 5

focuses on how an individual’s beliefs shape addiction. thinking biases play a crucial role in maintaining specific harmful emotions and behaviors.

Question 6

Dual system models of addiction focus on…

Answer 6

understanding addiction from the perspective of the joint operation of a controlled, reflective response system and an automatic, impulsive response system

Question 7

In people with addiction the transtheoretical model of change describes five stages in which the individual could be: which are?

Answer 7

1. Pre-contemplation,
2. Contemplation,
3. Preparation,
4. Action,
5. Maintenance (and Relapse)

Question 8

what is the PRIME model of motivation?

Answer 8

describe the stages of motivation

Question 9

Borland names his relapse prevention theory CEOS, Explain the theory

Answer 9

which is a combination of social context, an adaptive

operating system (OS), which controls responses on a moment to moment basis and controls the means by which we act on the world, and an

executive system (ES), which is essentially linguistic and logical and is involved in self-regulation and determining preferential future courses of action.

Question 10

from a Neuropsychological perspective there are four main components which need to be taken into consideration when delivering RP:…..

Answer 10

(i) current cognitive functioning and literacy levels
(ii) attentional ability
(iii) memory
(iv) executive functioning

Question 11

What is motivational interviewing?

Answer 11

Question 12

Zimberg defined three different types of dual diagnosis with substance use disorder:

Answer 12

Question 13

pickard and pearce argue that drug use as a compulsive act should be re-evaluated since they assume that clients are able to regulate their substance use. according to them, the five areas for targeting and intervention are:

Answer 13

1. habit
2. willpower
3. motivation
4. functional role
5. decision and resolve

if thes five areas are worked on, the client should experience enhanced choice, improved control, and augmented agency.