Treatment Considerations

Question 1

Matching hypothesis

Answer 1

matching person to the best option. (setting, duration, regimen, format, process, readiness etc.)

Question 2

Treatment setting

Answer 2

Where is treatment done?

Question 3

Treatment regimen

Answer 3

what is focus in treatment? behavioural, cognitive, pharmacological, supportive,

Question 4

Treatment format

Answer 4

with whom is treatment done? group, counsellors, family, group

Question 5

Treatment frequency

Answer 5

how often is treatment done

Question 6

Treatment duration

Answer 6

how long does treatment last?

Question 7

Therapy process

Answer 7

is there a relationship between therapist and client?

Question 8

Treatment readiness

Answer 8

is the client ready and receptive to treatment

Question 9

Treatment quality

Answer 9

how does the client like the process ad how is it in terms of following? (location, avaiability, intensity)

Question 10

Treatment philosophy

Answer 10

is the client responsible for either the problem or the solution

Question 11

Pharmacological Therapies

Answer 11

using other drugs to lessen or eliminate drug use. (nicotine patches, drug substitution, methadone)

Question 12

Individual counselling

Answer 12

uses counselling that is not developed to deal with addiction but is adapted. (freudian, brief solution, feminist, narrative, confrontation)

Question 13

Intervention (coercive)

Answer 13

direct conversation about drug use, friends and family members prepare statements to tell about the impact the addiction has had on them

Question 14

Group Counselling

Answer 14

based on recognition that substance abusers can help eachother. reduces social isolation, stigma. (forming, storming, norming, performing, mourning)

Question 15

Family Counselling

Answer 15

family is an organic whole. comprised of those who identify as a family and whose behavior is influenced.

Question 16

Behavioral Counselling

Answer 16

theories of learning and how behavior originates. includes skill training, CBT, DBT and aversion therapy

Question 17

Harm Reduction

Answer 17

form of treatment that is not dependent on abstinence but reduces some of the risk of drug use.

Question 18

Transtheroretical model of change

Answer 18

takes motivation and turns it into a counselling skill

Question 19

Motivational Interviewing

Answer 19

associated with Transtheroretical model of change, enhances intrinsic motivation to change.

Question 20

Mutual self aide / self help

Answer 20

AA, 12 step groups, etc.