The Dude
Jeffery Lebowski
What is the Dude's real name?
TWEAK and AUDIT are forms of these to be used with the Dude.
What are screening and assessments used for substance abuse?
Mental and emotional disorders that coincide with substance use disorders within an individual.
What is comorbidity?
This form of treatment provides information and understanding to the client.
What is psychoeducational therapy?
Attending group and individual sessions after being released from inpatient/outpatient treatment.
What is aftercare?
White Russians, beer, and marijuana
What substances the Dude abuses?
These models suggest a variety of motivations and reinforcers for taking drugs. (Capuzzi & Stauffer, p7)
What are cognitive-behavioral models?
The Dude is continually unhappy and reports thoughts consistent with low self-esteem, hypersomnia, and difficulty making decisions, these may be symptoms of this disorder.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
The central idea for this approach is that counselors engage clients in a voyage of discovery, during which clients discover their ambivalence about the change process, then resolve this ambivalence with activities designed to help them determine their own values and goals regarding the targets of change. (Capuzzi & Stauffer, p147)
What is motivational interviewing?
Providing counseling in finding interests for jobs and how to obtain employment.
What is career counseling?
The Dude has not considered changing his behavior, nor sees that it is necessary to change his behavior.
What is the precontemplation stage?
Structured, semistructured, and unstructured types of these are used to gather further information
What are interviews?
The Dude's current occupation.
What is unemployed?
Abstinence from mood altering substances, improved view of self, and becoming self-sufficient are examples of this part of the treatment plan.
What are goals?
Counseling that helps clients deal with significant losses.
What is grief counseling?
The Dude's current family and relationship status.
What is single and not involved?
As noted by Goode (1972), the social context of drug use strongly influences drug definitions, drug effects, drug-related behavior, and the drug experience; is a concept found in this etiology model of addiction. (Capuzzi & Stauffer, p12)
What are sociocultural models?
The Dude may need counseling for this, as he recently lost a significantly close friend.
What is grief?
Individual cognitive-behavior therapy, group therapy, and participation in a local 12-step program are examples of this part of the treatment plan.
What are treatment strategies?
Meditation, mindfullness, positive self-talk, talking to a sponsor, and attending meetings are examples of these.
What are coping strategies?
Apathetic, disheveled, unshaven, smells of alcohol and marijuana
What is the Dude's appearance and demeanor?
This model conceptualizes the problem of addiction as an interaction among three factors: the "agent" or drug, the "host" or person, and the "environment" which may be comprised of a number of entities. (Capuzzi & Stauffer, p14)
What is the multicausal model?
The Dude has only one close friend, and no other outside sources of help often referred to as these.
What is a support system?