Abcx Model Of Substance Abuse

and rankings that result in impact factors with substance abuse. The second article focuses on the cognitive behaviors of one who drinks extensive amounts of alcohol. Their have been studies that show people who drink at a relatively early age tend to have lower IQ’s and drop out of school. Studies suggest that there is poor cognitive functioning, especially in adolescents, to young adults with drags on the full on adult hood, that increases the risk of alcohol disorders. The use of this substitute goes to show all the many negative aspects about it such as Magical thinking of paranoia or the physical attributes of them. It can be a hereditary thing, or it can very much be influenced by outside sources, and in my case is both.
I enjoyed both scholarly journals since they both focused on different negative aspects that are involved with alcoholism. Corresponding to the ABCX Stress Model Theory, Drinking alcohol itself is the event that can lead to more disturbing and tragic events. Referring to the ABCX model, an Internal resources can be that alcoholism is hereditary …show more content…
There are a few alcoholics in my kin as well as affiliated kin which is my husbands biological family. For my family my father was always an alcoholic, ever since I can remember. There were times were he would get angry when drinking alcohol, but never to the extent of being afraid of him. Not once did he ever lay a finger on anyone in my family, instead he resulted in a mute anger and kept to himself. Those occasions were quite rare, but did in fact happen which ultimately resulted with the divorce of my parents. If alcohol didn't consume my father then my parents would more then likely still be happily married. Not only did my parents get a divorce, but my father had a hard time staying in any kind of relationship because when he drank, he was mostly sleeping and it would be as if he was not even there in the