Addictions Counseling Quiz 1 well
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Moral-Volitional Model - correct answer ✔✔ Oldest model
Weak character
Solution: social sanctions, Stockades originally, Facebook
DARE: just say no
12 Steps Moral inventory: take inventory on everything you have done wrong in your life
Faced with shame; blame for the problem is solely on you
Personal Model - correct answer ✔✔ Addictive, compulsive personality
Freud (later 1800s): oral fixation
Glasser (early behaviorist): escaping pain, emptiness, addiction as a learned behavior, habit
Maybe the person is not bad but sick
AA Model - correct answer ✔✔ Began in 1940s officially, but the roots go back to the 1800s
,Personal stories of recovery; not looking at counseling/psychology
Basic problem: self-centeredness
Solution: abstinence, spirituality, transformation
The same man will drink again; idea of conversion; become a new person
Originated from two white, straight, Christian men
Biological Model - correct answer ✔✔ 1950s
Alcoholism is simply genetic; genetic predisposition
Introduced the term disease concept
Nature, not nurture
Identical twin studies
Categorized types of alcoholism
Disease concept - correct answer ✔✔ American Medical Association 1956
A primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors
Still the definition today
Put the stamp on the bio-psycho-social model
Genetic predisposition: THIQ
THIQ is a very addictive substance that some people have in their brains and some don't
, Study conducted on rats, some rats will refuse alcohol, put THIQ injection in brain and rats
continued to drink alcohol
THIQ injected into monkeys and substance was still present 7 years later (it doesn't disappear)
Explains a genetic component
Environmental Model - correct answer ✔✔ Elliott Currie (1993)
Nurture, not nature
Collective, rather than individual, response to diminished opportunities
Provides income, identity, status, challenge
Most competent, energetic youth, not the psychologically crippled
Immigrants and American cities
Solution: community level
Denial - correct answer ✔✔ Comes with loss
If I accept that I have a drinking problem, then I have to lose the alcohol
If I accept I have diabetes, then I have to lose the sugar
What's the connection to shame? Loss of self-concept
Loss of self-esteem
answered already passed
Moral-Volitional Model - correct answer ✔✔ Oldest model
Weak character
Solution: social sanctions, Stockades originally, Facebook
DARE: just say no
12 Steps Moral inventory: take inventory on everything you have done wrong in your life
Faced with shame; blame for the problem is solely on you
Personal Model - correct answer ✔✔ Addictive, compulsive personality
Freud (later 1800s): oral fixation
Glasser (early behaviorist): escaping pain, emptiness, addiction as a learned behavior, habit
Maybe the person is not bad but sick
AA Model - correct answer ✔✔ Began in 1940s officially, but the roots go back to the 1800s
,Personal stories of recovery; not looking at counseling/psychology
Basic problem: self-centeredness
Solution: abstinence, spirituality, transformation
The same man will drink again; idea of conversion; become a new person
Originated from two white, straight, Christian men
Biological Model - correct answer ✔✔ 1950s
Alcoholism is simply genetic; genetic predisposition
Introduced the term disease concept
Nature, not nurture
Identical twin studies
Categorized types of alcoholism
Disease concept - correct answer ✔✔ American Medical Association 1956
A primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors
Still the definition today
Put the stamp on the bio-psycho-social model
Genetic predisposition: THIQ
THIQ is a very addictive substance that some people have in their brains and some don't
, Study conducted on rats, some rats will refuse alcohol, put THIQ injection in brain and rats
continued to drink alcohol
THIQ injected into monkeys and substance was still present 7 years later (it doesn't disappear)
Explains a genetic component
Environmental Model - correct answer ✔✔ Elliott Currie (1993)
Nurture, not nature
Collective, rather than individual, response to diminished opportunities
Provides income, identity, status, challenge
Most competent, energetic youth, not the psychologically crippled
Immigrants and American cities
Solution: community level
Denial - correct answer ✔✔ Comes with loss
If I accept that I have a drinking problem, then I have to lose the alcohol
If I accept I have diabetes, then I have to lose the sugar
What's the connection to shame? Loss of self-concept
Loss of self-esteem
