Provide a summary of any potential dilemmas you might encounter working with the model selected

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Assignment: Scholar Practitioner Project Assignment: Models of Addiction and Treatment

 

For this Assignment, you will explore the four models most commonly used in the treatment of addiction. You will select the most appropriate model to use and apply in your SPP.  As a helping professional, it will be important for you to be familiar with these four models and prepared to work within their frameworks.

 

You will submit your selected models of addiction and treatment for your Scholar Practitioner Project (SPP). Refer to the “Instructions for Scholar Practitioner Project (SPP) Case Study” (attached) document.

 

Assignment:

In a 2- to 4-page APA-formatted paper:

 

Submit the models of addiction and treatment that you selected for your Scholar Practitioner Project (SPP) Case Study as it applies to the case of Marge (attached). Include the following information:

 

  •   Selected model of addiction
  •   Potential strengths and limitations of this model of addiction
  •   Selected model of treatment
  •   Potential strengths and limitations of this model of treatment
  •   Provide a rationale for each of your selections
  • Provide a summary of any potential dilemmas you might encounter working with the model selected

 

References (use at least 2 or more)

 

Doweiko, H. E. (2015). Concepts of chemical dependency (9th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage.

 

Kolind, T., Vanderplasschen, W., & De Maeyer, J. (2009). Dilemmas when working with substance abusers with multiple and complex problems: The case manager’s perspective. International Journal of Social Welfare, 18(3), 270–280.

 

Vanderplasschen, W., Wolf, J., Rapp, R. C., & Broekaert, E. (2007). Effectiveness of different models of case management for substance-abusing populations. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 39(1), 81–95.

Write a 500- to 700-word magazine article that discusses visual and verbal imagery. Include the following in your article:

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Assignment 1: Discussion Question

Tisha recently completed a personality inventory as part of her executive training program. She was supposed to receive a printout of her results but got only the first page of the packet. This page indicated that she scored moderately high in Openness to Experience as well as Agreeableness, very high in Conscientiousness and Extraversion, and low in Neuroticism. However, the page offered no analysis of these findings because the analysis was part of the missing pages.

She has contacted HR to obtain the remaining pages of her feedback because she is interested in knowing what the results mean.

Based on the Big Five model of personality, explain the findings to Tisha. Include the explanations of each dimension of personality, and provide examples of each. Be sure to discuss research findings regarding personality measures and job performance.

Detail how the predictors of performance could be used to predict Tisha’s success as a manager. Do you think Tisha’s personality test suggests that she will be a successful manager? Why or why not?

Write a 500- to 700-word magazine article that discusses visual and verbal imagery. Include the following in your article:

 

  • A contrast of verbal and visual imagery
  • An argument about which of these you consider most important
  • A justification of your argument with research
  • Include at least three scholarly peer-reviewed articles, in addition to the course text.

Course text- Anderson, J. R. ( 2010). Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications. 7th edition. New York, NY. Worth Publishers.

In the following scenarios, try to imagine the brain of a person with the described head injury. What do you think is going wrong in each case? What are some alternatives?

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Please answer before 10:00 pm.

Short answers

Please keep it simple.

A) In the following scenarios, try to imagine the brain of a person with the described head injury. What do you think is going wrong in each case? What are some alternatives?

  1. A man comes in after falling from a ladder. He is having trouble with his vision and balance and seems to have difficulty keeping his emotions in check. What structures of his brain might be affected and why? Where do you think his injury was? Consider different possibilities and try to discuss various alternatives.
  2. A woman has had a stroke and is having trouble with language. She understands what people say to her but can no longer read, even though her vision is perfect. She also has real difficulty speaking – she speaks in kind of a telegraphic style, so that when she thinks it’s hot and we should turn on the air conditioner she says, “hot… turn…”, trying to speak normally but leaving out most of the sentence, clearly frustrated. What structures do you think were affected by her stroke? Again, try to consider the whole system and various possibilities.

B)Choose an important activity (for example, giving a presentation in class, helping someone in distress, going on a first date — you can choose any activity at all) and discuss how specific structures of the a) limbic system, b) brainstem, and c) cerebellum may be involved.

What factors in the biosocial domain might account for women’s greater susceptibility to depression and other “passive” disorders?

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Now that you have read and reviewed the material on biosocial development during emerging adulthood, take your learning a step further by testing your critical thinking skills on this perspective-taking exercise.

The symptoms of major depressive disorder are lethargy, loss of interest in family, friends, and activities, and feelings of worthlessness that last two weeks or longer without any notable cause. During adulthood, women are diagnosed with depression roughly twice as often as men. (Interestingly, among college-age women and men, the gender difference in depression is much smaller.) More generally, women appear to be more vulnerable than men to passive (internalized) psychological disorders such as depression and anxiety. In contrast, men are generally more vulnerable to active (externalized) psychological disorders, including drug abuse, antisocial conduct, and poor impulse control. This exercise asks you to examine the gender difference in the diagnosis of active and passive psychological disorders, first by thinking critically about this issue and then by reviewing ongoing research regarding its origins.

  1. What factors in the biosocial domain might account for women’s greater susceptibility to depression and other “passive” disorders?
  2. What factors in the cognitive domain might account for women’s greater susceptibility to depression?
  3. What factors in the psychosocial domain might account for this gender difference?
  4. Some have suggested that the gender difference may be the result of a gender bias in the diagnostic process. That is, doctors and clinicians expect women to suffer from depression more often and, consequently, are more vigilant in finding symptoms that confirm this expectation. As a researcher, how would you test this hypothesis?
  5. Compare your answers to questions 1, 2, and 3 to the information provided by NIMH and the APA. Then briefly summarize the latest evidence regarding the biosocial, cognitive, and psychosocial factors in depression in general, and women’s greater vulnerability, in particular. 1(To complete this question, consult the websites for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/depression/depression-examining-the-sexgender-differences-and-links-to-other-diseases.shtml) and the American Psychological Association  (https://www.apa.org/research/action/men.aspx).