Addiction Treatment

In the article “Avoidance of counseling: Psychological factors that inhibit seeking help” (2007) the authors discuss the techniques used to help counselors reach out to reluctant clients (p.410). The authors begin by pointing out the way a person initially enters treatment. They say that “…the act of seeking professional help” is a process of “…approach/avoidance […]

First let me give you some terms and definitions on the basis of the fundamental attribution theory so we can discuss how it relates to addiction treatment. Attribution theory says that people have an innate need to explain their own behavior and other people’s behavior by attributing the causes of a behavior to a situation

Many of the concepts incorporated into drug and alcohol treatment programs are based on basic learning and conditioning research done by some of the early pioneers of behavior therapy. Of course the most notable of the original learning and conditioning scientists is Ivan Pavlov. While he was considered the first to form the Classical Conditioning

Carl Jung is considered one of the great contributors to Alcoholics Anonymous and recovery. Some of his ideas permeate addiction treatment facilities today. Some of Carl Jung’s most notable contributions to psychology were his ideas of the collective unconscious and archetypes. Carl Jung considered the collective unconscious the deepest level of the psyche containing the

Drug tolerance is increased resistance to the drug’s effects after continued drug use.  Larger doses are needed in order to produce initial drug effects.  There are two types of tolerance: metabolic and cellular. Metabolic (Dispositional) Tolerance happens after repeated administrations of a drug over time.  After a person takes a drug over and over, a