Substances
This type of substance slows down the central nervous system and includes things such as alcohol, benzodiazepines, and barbiturates
What are Depressants?
This defining symptom of substance use disorders includes taking more of a substance than intended, experiencing strong cravings, spending a lot of time getting the substance, and having difficulty reducing or eliminating substance use.
What is Impaired Control?
This theory explains substance use disorders by combining different aspects of life, including biological (genetics, physiology, tissue health), psychological (mental/emotional health), and sociological (relationships, support, and socioeconomics)
What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
This treatment is utilized to help change a client's behaviors and perceptions about their substance use. It tries to increase intrinsic motivation for creating a change.
There are several specifiers for gambling disorder. These discuss how it is portrayed, whether it is meeting criteria for the disorder several times with symptoms subsiding in between, or experiencing continuous symptoms.
This type of substance activates the central nervous system and includes things such as caffeine, cocaine, and amphetamines
What are Stimulants?
This defining symptom of substance use disorders includes having trouble meeting obligations, reducing social events, and having interpersonal issues related to the substance use
What is Social Impairment?
This theory explains how substance use is maintained using aspects of operant conditioning. It states that a reduction in distress (such as a reduction in withdrawal symptoms after taking a substance) acts as a negative reinforcement
What is the Negative Reinforcement Model?
This treatment helps clients to modify their behaviors and attitudes towards substances, and attempts to increase healthy life skills.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy?
This theory for gambling disorder states that a combination of biological factors (some may find gambling more rewarding than others) and social triggers (associating with other gamblers) can result in continued symptoms.
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model?
This type of substance is used to medically relieve pain, and includes morphine, heroin, and codeine
What are Opioids?
This key feature includes continuing to use a substance despite knowing the dangers and issues it is causing
What is Risky Use?
This theory states that with repeated substance use, more cues become associated with the rewarding effects of a substance. This creates an attentional bias.
What is the Response Sensitization Model?
This treatment (often used for alcohol use disorder) creates a connection with unpleasant thoughts and consequences to alcohol use.
What is Covert Sensitization Therapy?
This substance produces perceptual changes and includes LSD, PCP, and Ketamine
What are Hallucinogens?
This key feature of substance use disorders includes two parts: tolerance and withdrawal.
What is Pharmacological?
This theory states that genetic factors and environmental factors can combine and lead to the expectation of reward from a substance, which leads to choosing and creating environments that support substance abuse
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model?
This model for preventing relapse involves choosing effective coping responses over ineffective coping responses to be more likely to refuse a substance in a high-risk situation.
What is Marlatt's Cognitive-Behavioral Model for Preventing Relapse?