Week 3- 12 Step Movement&Treatment

Question 1

Self Help Groups: Core Characteristics

Answer 1

common experience amongst members, mutual help & support, helping others is as beneficial as being helped, normalcy, collective belief&willpower, information sharing, base for social interaction, growth and ambition

Question 2

Alcoholic Anonymous Historical Influence

Answer 2

self-recovery, religious beliefs, psychiatry, temperance movement & prohibition, stigma of alcoholism

Question 3

Letter to Jung

Answer 3

said alcoholism is something evil, had spiritual underpinnings, alcohol is destructive, personality disorder/disease/incurable

Question 4

The Twelve Steps

Answer 4

admit we’re powerless, higher power restore sanity, turn will to God, moral inventory, admit to people of our wrongdoings, God will remove these defects and shortcomings, list of those we harmed and are willing to make amends, make the amends where possible, continue to take personal inventory where wrong, sought prayer & meditation/ spiritual awakening, after awakening carry message to other alcoholics

Question 5

Treatment Definition

Answer 5

planned actives designed to change some patter of behaviour(s) of a person or their families

Question 6

Change Model (Motivation to Change) Stages: Pre-contemplation

Answer 6

not aware of the problem, if so has no interest in change

Question 7

Change Model (Motivation to Change) Stages: Contemplation

Answer 7

waver between pros and cons of their problem behaviour & making changes

Question 8

Change Model (Motivation to Change) Stages: Preparation

Answer 8

edging toward taking action; may have mad attempt in recent past

Question 9

Change Model (Motivation to Change) Stages: Commitment

Answer 9

Take action & set required goals

Question 10

Change Model (Motivation to Change) Stages: Maintenance

Answer 10

involves the continued use of behaviour-change activities for as long as several years after action stage began

Question 11

Pharmacological Treatment for Alcoholism

Answer 11

Disulfiram recently that develops acute sensitivity to ethanol (hangover effects felt immediately)

Question 12

Stepped Care Approach

Answer 12

Treatment should be least intrusive; considering physical effects on the client & clients lifestyle & resources (more intensive for more severe problems)

Question 13

OSDUHS (Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey)

Answer 13

Basically gathered data from 1977-2013/2015- found that cigarettes, alcohol, opioids, highly-caffeinated drinks, over the counter cold meds, driving after drinking, cannabis use, riding with someone under influence, street drugs have all lowered significantly, but now e-cigarettes, waterpipe (hookah), the drinking of alcohol (binge drinking), cannabis dependency remain