Case Study: The Watershed Addiction Treatment Program
Crucial Phase In the crucial phase, an individual’s tries to geographically escape, memory blackouts are increased, decrease their ability to stop using, and their efforts to control fail repeatedly (The Watershed Addiction Treatment Programs, 2014). They also avoid their family and friends, experience work and money troubles, and neglect food. James mixed alcohol and heroin to the point where he could not remember what happened that night. He geographically relocates and moves from California to New York in hopes of starting a clean new life without drugs. He avoided his family and friends when they tried to contact him, and only talked to them when he needed something (his plane tickets paid for). He began using heroin so much that he couldn’t
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James goes in and out of his addiction with heroin. He uses, attempts to become clean, and relapses again when a trauma occurs. His use of heroin impaired his thinking to the point where he was begging on the streets for change in order to buy more drugs.
Rehabilitation Phase In the rehabilitation phase, an individual has an honest desire for help, meets former addicts, stops using alcohol and drugs, and begins healthy thinking (The Watershed Addiction Treatment Programs, 2014). James asked his parents for help to purchase his ticket home, and in return, was taken to a rehabilitation center for his addiction problem. Although he has recently relapsed, he took his first step into a NA meeting, meeting former addicts. He has stopped using heroin and has been clean for a few days. He tries to utilize healthy thinking, being clean to help support his family.
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The 12 Steps and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) have similar traits. CBT is a psychotherapeutic approach attempting to change the cognitions that are affecting problem behaviors (Smith, 2010, p. 111). For instance, step one of the 12 steps is admitting that the individual is powerless over their addiction and that their lives have become unmanageable. It correlates with one of the main principles of CBT, focusing on the here and now (Stein, 2013). In both methods, they identify the behavior patterns that they want to change (stop drinking, stop fighting others,
James goes in and out of his addiction with heroin. He uses, attempts to become clean, and relapses again when a trauma occurs. His use of heroin impaired his thinking to the point where he was begging on the streets for change in order to buy more drugs.
Rehabilitation Phase In the rehabilitation phase, an individual has an honest desire for help, meets former addicts, stops using alcohol and drugs, and begins healthy thinking (The Watershed Addiction Treatment Programs, 2014). James asked his parents for help to purchase his ticket home, and in return, was taken to a rehabilitation center for his addiction problem. Although he has recently relapsed, he took his first step into a NA meeting, meeting former addicts. He has stopped using heroin and has been clean for a few days. He tries to utilize healthy thinking, being clean to help support his family.
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The 12 Steps and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) have similar traits. CBT is a psychotherapeutic approach attempting to change the cognitions that are affecting problem behaviors (Smith, 2010, p. 111). For instance, step one of the 12 steps is admitting that the individual is powerless over their addiction and that their lives have become unmanageable. It correlates with one of the main principles of CBT, focusing on the here and now (Stein, 2013). In both methods, they identify the behavior patterns that they want to change (stop drinking, stop fighting others,