Review at least three websites of professional organizations for mental health and related fields provided in this week’s list of Recommended Websites. Compare and contrast the key features of three mental health-related disciplines.

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Issues Behind Addictive Drug Use

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the required chapters from the text and review the required articles for this week. Humans have engaged in psychoactive drug use, sometimes in formal (ceremonial) settings and sometimes recreationally, since before recorded history. It has only been in the last century or so that abuse and addiction have become large-scale problems. Using the literature and your own insights into these issues, formulate an argument as to why the problem has reached its current scale.  In your discussion, evaluate the employment of psychoactive drugs from the aspects of a risk-benefits analysis and ethical considerations such as the risk of addiction versus the cost of punitive action. Also explain purely pharmacological issues such as pharmacokinetics and routes of drug administration and dose. If needed, include factors such as supply, cultural attitudes to drug use, and the context of drug use.

Review at least three websites of professional organizations for mental health and related fields provided in this week’s list of Recommended Websites. Compare and contrast the key features of three mental health-related disciplines.

Address the following questions in your initial post:

  • What are common themes found among each of the professional organizations represented in the websites?
  • What are the distinctive themes for each organization?
  • How might a professional from each of the disciplines represented in the websites you selected answer the following question “How would a professional in your organization contribute to the treatment of depression?”

What do others in your family, your friends, or others in your com-munity think is causing your [PROBLEM]?

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CULTURAL DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM

(Explanatory Model, Level of Functioning)

 

Elicit the individual’s view of core problems and key concerns.

Focus on the individual’s own way of understanding the problem.

Use the term, expression, or brief description elicited in question 1 to identify the problem in subsequent questions (e.g., “your conflict with your son”).

1. What brings you here today?

IF INDIVIDUAL GIVES FEW DETAILS OR ONLY MENTIONS SYMPTOMS OR A MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS, PROBE:

People often understand their problems in their own way, which may be similar to or different from how doctors describe the problem. How would you describe your problem?

 

Ask how individual frames the problem for members of the social network.

2. Sometimes people have different ways of describing their problem to their family, friends, or others in their community. How would you describe your problem to them?

 

Focus on the aspects of the problem that matter most to the individual.

3. What troubles you most about your problem?

 

CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS OF CAUSE, CONTEXT, AND SUPPORT

 

CAUSES

(Explanatory Model, Social Network, Older Adults)

 

This question indicates the meaning of the condition for the individual, which may be relevant for clinical care.

4. Why do you think this is happening to you? What do you think are the causes of your [PROBLEM]?

 

Note that individuals may identify multiple causes, de-pending on the facet of the problem they are consid-ering.

PROMPT FURTHER IF REQUIRED:

Some people may explain their problem as the result of bad things that happen in their life, problems with others, a physical illness, a spiritual reason, or many other causes.

 

Focus on the views of members of the individual’s social network. These may be diverse and vary from the indi-vidual’s.

5. What do others in your family, your friends, or others in your com-munity think is causing your [PROBLEM]?

Does the mother have a right to privacy regarding her own diagnosis, which could be threatened if her daughter learns of her own status?

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Prior to beginning work on this discussion, be sure to read the required articles for this week.(I have attached the articles)

You are a consulting psychologist for a local clinic and have been asked to review an ethically complex case. Please review the PSY699 Week four discussion case file (Links to an external site.) for detailed information on the case under review.

In your initial post, explain how the APA Ethical Principles and Code of Conduct can be used to guide decisions in this ethically complex situation. https://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index

Provide a suggested course of action for the clinic staff. Given the daughter’s age and the situation presented, integrate concepts developed from different psychological content domains to support your suggested course of action. Be certain to use evidence-based psychological concepts and theories to support your arguments. You may wish to consider the following questions as you construct your post.

Does the daughter have a right to know her diagnosis?

Does the mother have a right to not disclose the diagnosis to her daughter?

Does the mother have a right to privacy regarding her own diagnosis, which could be threatened if her daughter learns of her own status?

Should the staff tell the daughter if the mother does not want her to know?

If the daughter wants to know more about her condition, what should the staff say?

Are there other approaches the staff can take? If so,what are they?

Is further information required in order for you to create an ethically sound suggested course of action?

Examine the underlying ethical standards, values, and considerations in theory and practice in the disciplines of psychology.

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The following Course Outcomes will be assessed with this Assignment.

PS497-2: Explore basic methodology in psychology including research design, data analysis, and the interpretation and evaluation of findings.

PS497-4: Apply the appropriate psychological principles, theories, and concepts to personal, social, and organizational issues and problems.

PS497-5: Examine the underlying ethical standards, values, and considerations in theory and practice in the disciplines of psychology.

As you have learned throughout your courses, adherence to ethical principles is paramount to your practice as an addiction professional; however, sometimes, this can be more challenging than one might imagine!

Please read the following case study:

A client in recovery for Alcohol Use Disorder wanted to buy a house and started selling her mother’s antique jewelry to raise capital. The client showed her therapist one of the better items of jewelry for sale, the therapist asked the price and the client quoted a price that seemed reasonable given the number of rubies. Therapist bought the item for the quoted price and paid in cash. Over a year passed since successful termination of therapy when the client called therapist stating that she learned the value of the item was worth $2000 more than agreed upon and she requested that amount. The therapist was astounded and she refused.

Address the following in your paper:

  • Describe at least two potential ethical issues.
  • Discuss what you think the outcome of the case should be and why.
    • Should the therapist return the items? Give the client more money for the jewelry? Why or why not?

Be sure your paper is 5–7 pages in APA format. Include at least three academic references. Your paper should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful.