Brittany Morgan
PSYC 385-01: Abnormal Psychology
Fall 2015
12 October 2015 SUBSTANCE ABUSE DISORDER
1. After reviewing the interview footage, what do you think were the principle factors that induced Bobbie to abuse drugs?
In the interview footage we were introduced to Bobbie, a woman who has struggled with substance abuse disorder in her past. She portrayed her early life as being filled with nothing but hardships and shortcomings since before she could remember. Throughout her childhood and well into her teen years three major principle factors induced Bobbie to start abusing drugs. The first factor was that her biological Mother was in and out of her life sporadically while growing up. For a young girl, having a nurturing and loving …show more content…
The abuse began when she was only nine years old and it continued until the age of sixteen. Growing up in a dysfunctional home and family lead Bobbie to think that she did not have a voice. She did not mention the abuse to anyone because she felt that they would not care to listen. This inflicted great pain and an emotional strained on the young Bobbie, causing her to cry a lot, become very verbal, and eventually begin to act out. All three of the above factors contributed to Bobbie’s long path down substance abuse disorder. She was looking for attention from a family that under their own circumstances simply were not able to provide such to her. She stated that all she ever wanted was for people to pay her attention and acknowledge her. In an effort to get such attention led her to abuse different substances as a way to ease the pain. Bobbie quickly began to correlate physical pain with emotional pain and the effects of the substances helped to alleviate them …show more content…
With this model, it stands firm in believing that the therapeutic goal is to completely expunge addiction from one’s life and the person must never use that substance again. The harm-reduction simply does not see addiction solely as a disease. Under this model, it is assumed that addiction is rather a pattern of behaviors proposed by a combination of socio-cultural and psychological processes. It asserts that with psychological interventions the behavior of an individual can be modified and it ultimately helps them regain control over their
PSYC 385-01: Abnormal Psychology
Fall 2015
12 October 2015 SUBSTANCE ABUSE DISORDER
1. After reviewing the interview footage, what do you think were the principle factors that induced Bobbie to abuse drugs?
In the interview footage we were introduced to Bobbie, a woman who has struggled with substance abuse disorder in her past. She portrayed her early life as being filled with nothing but hardships and shortcomings since before she could remember. Throughout her childhood and well into her teen years three major principle factors induced Bobbie to start abusing drugs. The first factor was that her biological Mother was in and out of her life sporadically while growing up. For a young girl, having a nurturing and loving …show more content…
The abuse began when she was only nine years old and it continued until the age of sixteen. Growing up in a dysfunctional home and family lead Bobbie to think that she did not have a voice. She did not mention the abuse to anyone because she felt that they would not care to listen. This inflicted great pain and an emotional strained on the young Bobbie, causing her to cry a lot, become very verbal, and eventually begin to act out. All three of the above factors contributed to Bobbie’s long path down substance abuse disorder. She was looking for attention from a family that under their own circumstances simply were not able to provide such to her. She stated that all she ever wanted was for people to pay her attention and acknowledge her. In an effort to get such attention led her to abuse different substances as a way to ease the pain. Bobbie quickly began to correlate physical pain with emotional pain and the effects of the substances helped to alleviate them …show more content…
With this model, it stands firm in believing that the therapeutic goal is to completely expunge addiction from one’s life and the person must never use that substance again. The harm-reduction simply does not see addiction solely as a disease. Under this model, it is assumed that addiction is rather a pattern of behaviors proposed by a combination of socio-cultural and psychological processes. It asserts that with psychological interventions the behavior of an individual can be modified and it ultimately helps them regain control over their