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The primary objective of the health psychology plan is to study the inter-individual differences in health and illness and their determinants. It is a new perspective, both multifactorial and integrative, characterized by the importance it attaches to transactions between the individual and the environment. In this research paper the objective of this Health psychology plan is much more particular it is up to me to address the very delicate subject. The management of a subject who presents problems related to its consumption of alcohol. It is precisely within the framework of the privileged relationship between a treating worker and the subject that relatively simple tools will allow me to detect in the subject a consumption of alcohol at …show more content…
He is described as an alcoholic. He has great difficulties of expression which are not, properly speaking, either a denial or bad faith. Even as a caregiver, the alcoholic cannot express the complete truth about his drink. Rather he shows what he does not drink ('never whiskey') when he does not drink ('never in the morning'), Where he does not drink ('never in the bars'). The subject uses inverse expressions of what he wants to express "I have already stopped many times" which is equal to "I have already relapsed several times" or changes the date of action (towards the past or the future) not to speak of the present too painful for itself. Finally, he often cites others to express what he cannot express ('My friends say I drink'); Eventually, he will be followed so that the other person will tell the truth in his place. This difficulty of language is a modesty subject which can only obey his need for alcohol and defends himself at all costs. By asking the question directly: 'How much do you drink?' It seems …show more content…
Specifically, it encourages at-risk consumers to reduce the level of alcohol consumption and helps alcohol-dependent addicts to initiate specialized treatment. This reduction in the degree of alcohol consumption requires an awareness of the adverse effects of alcohol consumption and motivation to change behavior. Interviews have standard components such as comments on adverse and harmful effects of alcohol, the comparison between individual consumption and drinking

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