Substance dependence

Background Information: Client is a 49 year old, Caucasian female who has agreed to individual counseling after a referral from her case manager at Twin Oaks Homeless Shelter. Client was born and raised in Delevan, WI. Client reported she has a relationship with her parents, two brothers, and sister who all live in Delevan. Client is struggling to maintain her sobriety which she has been sober for about month since she moved into the shelter in the middle of March. Client reported she lost…

Since the study was conducted in Texas of United States, the demographic distribution here may be different from other part or State of the country. Moreover, for the special locate of Texas, there are more Mexican immigrants or Mexican Americans, the racial differences may varied from any other state of the country. Furthermore, the participants were selected through convenient sampling instead of random sampling, which may not represent all the middle school students with different cultural…

The target population that he authors wanted to study was children in Elementary School. The population from which the sample was taken represented the appropriate people because the authors studied children from fourth through sixth grade (elementary school). The average age of children who participated was 10 years, and 26% of them were from public schools, 26% from a public school, and 7% from a parochial school. The schools indicated that 60% of children were Black, 26% were White, and 14%…

A study was conducted to measure an individual’s attitudes towards homosexuality, attitude scales have been devised from Larsen et al in 1980 to LeMar and Kite’s 1997 attitude scale, to reflect modern day attitudes towards homosexuality a study was conducted using a new scale as the old one is outdated, using this new scale and additional study was conducted into the attitudes of an individual and the participant’s levels of religiosity to test the relationship between the two topics. Various…

Company Value: Job Performance: Citizenship and Task Behavior Company value is highly correlated, with statistical significance, to citizenship behavior. This supports our hypothesis that states, “If employees feel connected, and apart, of their company’s culture they are more likely to be aligned with organizations mission and values.” Employees who feel connected to their organization often go above and beyond in their job tasks, and exceed goals set by their organization. These employees…

brain disorder. An addiction holds the power to dictate many aspects of people’s lives, and can turn into a solid form of suffering. In the past, an addiction was only classified as substances that crossed the blood-brain barrier, and then temporarily alter the chemical balance of the brain. These kinds of substances would include alcohol, tobacco and some drugs. But more recently a considerable number of psychologists, and other healthcare professionals, now insist that an addiction can also be…

Correlation, also known as association, is the simultaneous variation in two variables. (Conley, pg. 46) Whereas, causation is the change in one factor of life directly causing a change in the other. (Conley, pg. 48) A causality is harder to prove than a correlation because more factors are needed to prove a causality. To prove causality three factors must be proven, correlation, time order, and ruling out alternative explanation. (Conley, pg. 48) Each one of these factors also have complex…

Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive drug. The use of this drug is very destructive, it can be injected, smoked, or snorted. When it enters the body quickly and can cause physical and psychological effects. Heroine has some pretty negative consequences there can be long term, short term and the ultimate side effect. Heroin has long term effects. You develop a tolerance for the drug. You need more of the drug to get the kind of high that you want. You experience physical withdrawal…

The various theories on substance use disorders and addiction include the addictive disease model, behavioral/environmental model, academic model, and diathesis-stress theory of addiction. These theories explain possible reasons for why individuals become, look to, or keep using dangerous substances. The addictive disease model can often be referred to as the medical model and refers to addiction as a chronic and progressive problem that can potentially cause fatality when activated by abused…

Alcohol consumption has been on the rise in the United States, especially among college students (Engs & Hanson, 1990). That also indicates that there are more alcohol dependence and alcohol-related health problems among young adults. It is possibly due to four main drinking motives that are typically occurring during the twenties. According to previous studies, there are strong positive correlations between Drinking motives and alcohol consumption. In addition to that, there’s strong negative…