Important lecture slides Flashcards
Psychological symptoms of alcohol
Fear
Depressed mood
Confusion
Sleep problems
Mood swings
Withdrawal symptoms of alcohol within 8-12 hours
Nausea
Not eating
Headache
Light shaking
Fear
General sick feeling
Withdrawal symptoms of alcohol within 12-36 hours
Insomnia
Restless/agitation
Tremors
Sweat/palpitations
Withdrawal symptoms of alcohol within 48 hours
Withdrawal feeling / delirium
Tremor
Sweating
Agitation
Slight fever
Hypertension
Psychological symptoms of cannabis
Difficulty concentrating
Memory impairment
Fear
Suspicion/paranoia
Withdrawal symptoms of cannabis
Insomnia
Depressed mood
Agitation
Psychological symptoms of cocaine
Lack of energy
Depressed mood
Fear and panic
Suspicion and paranoia
Insomnia
Why does substance use co-occur with PTSD?
Substance use increases the risk of trauma
More substance use to cope with PTSD
No habituation when under the influence
Substance use can trigger symptoms
Other causal influences like genetic predisposition
Exceptions to waiting before making a diagnosis
Social anxiety disorder
OCD
Specific phobia
PTSD
GAD
Advice for dual-disorder treatment
Has no additional effect on addiction and there is no evidence-based integrated treatment. Just follow regular guidelines for the disorder and treat both separately
System 1- thinking fast
- Unconscious
- Evolved early
- Shared with animals
- Non-verbal
- Rapid, parallel
- High capacity
- Domain specific
- Pragmatic
- Independent of working
memory, IQ
System 2- thinking slow
- Conscious
- Evolved late
- Uniquely human
- Verbal
- Slow, sequential
- Low capacity
- Logical, abstract
- Hypothetical
- Related of working memory
capacity, IQ
Non reaction-time tasks related to memory
- Outcome-behavior associations
– Present outcome, assess spontaneously generated behaviors in a top-of-mind awareness test
Having fun:________________ - Cue-behavior associations
– Present a word or picture cue or context, assess spontaneously generated behaviors
Friday night:_______________ - Word associations
– First associations to ambiguous words which can be alcohol/drug related or not (e.g. “draft” “bottle” ….)
Experimental lab studies (POP)
- not motivated to change
- tests causality
- not aware of what they are receiving and what is happening
- goal is temporary change if bias is changed
RCTs
- tests efficacy
- motivated to change
- aware of receiving treatment
- reduction in online and consistent add on effects in face to face