Enduring Issues in Psychology Toni Blake • Which Type of Psychotherapy Is Most Useful? • Psychotherapy should focus on unconscious traumas • Psychotherapy should focus on irrational thought processes • Psychotherapy should focus on an individual’s potential • Psychotherapy should focus on changing • What Is Personality and How Is It Measured? • Unconscious instincts motivate personality • Social feeling motivates personality • A hierarchy of needs motivates personality • Personality
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Alcoholism: Symptoms‚ Causes‚ and Effects Composition I April 1‚ 1997 Alcoholism is a disease that affects many people in the United States today. It not only affects the alcoholic‚ but also their family‚ friends‚ co- workers‚ and eventually total strangers. The symptoms are many‚ as are the causes and the effects. Alcoholism is defined as a pattern of drinking in which harmful consequences result for the drinker‚ yet‚ they continue to drink. There are two types of drinkers. The first type
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Effects of Alcoholism on Families The effects of alcoholism on families can cause more damage and pain than any other internal or external influence on the family unit. The impact of the drinker’s abuse or addiction is usually manifested differently with each member of the family and has long-term implications. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism reports that more than one-half of adults in the U.S. have a close family member who has abused alcohol or is addicted to the
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Amanda Wittry Mrs. Johansen English 11 17 February 2013 Alcoholism in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby The author‚ Samuel Johnson once said that “Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost”. Francis Scott Fitzgerald lived during the Jazz Age‚ a time of frivolous and carefree living. He and his wife Zelda became engrossed in this lifestyle‚ they spent their time drinking and partying. They appeared to have a perfect life‚ but in reality they struggled
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Alcoholism - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy- Critical Thinking Report Introduction The focus of this report is to find out about the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in treating alcoholism. First of all‚ before we begin writing about all the facts and opinions about this treatment lets define what alcoholism is. Many people get confused about alcoholism being a ‘weakness’ of a character‚ however it is more considered as a
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Alcoholism: Supported by Empirical Research Ellie Smith Vanderbilt University Abstract Globally‚ alcohol abuse disorders have become a problem for seventy-six million people (Orford‚ Natera‚ Copello‚ Atkinson‚ 2005). Addiction is a disease‚ not merely a social disorder. The disease not only affects the inflicted individuals‚ but can also be detrimental to family members and the greater community. Causes of addiction can be grouped into three categories: psychological traits
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ALCOHOLISM: Nature or Nurture? Morgan Lewis Period 5 Sociology A recent study by Dr. Ming D. Li shows that alcoholism (the addiction to alcohol) may actually be linked to a genetic trait- making alcoholism a product of nature. Dr. Li is the head of neurobiology at the University of Virginia‚ and states that this research is “unique” because it shows that a single gene variation- one which alters the brain’s control of serotonin
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Alcoholism is a very prevalent problem in The Glass Castle and Jeanette Walls’ life. This quote from the book‚ “No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics‚” (Walls 83) shows how much her life was influenced by this problem. Maybe she knows what happened in her father’s past that turned him to alcohol‚ and maybe she thinks that when people are treated the way she is by her father
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The continuous or excessive use of alcohol (ethanol) with associated pathologic results. Alcoholism is characterized by constant or periodic intoxication‚ although the pattern of consumption varies markedly. Individuals admitted for the first time to an alcoholism treatment center typically have been consuming 3–4 oz (80–100 g) of pure alcohol per day‚ corresponding to seven to nine drinks or bottles of beer or glasses of wine. Studies have shown that problem drinking in these populations starts
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Alcoholism: Nature Versus Nurture For years people have argued that alcoholism is a choice and not a learned or inherited disease. These people will normally agree that yes‚ children are in fact influenced by family‚ but purely of a social nature‚ and that this disease is actually caused by poor economic status‚ poor social upbringings‚ or merely by imitating the behaviors of those who raised them. However‚ research has proven that in a great deal of cases there is in fact enormous basis for alcoholism
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