Question

1. Why are all addiction counseling useful? (100 words at least.)

2. Why is National institute on drug Abuse is an effective assessment for counseling? (100 words at least)

Answer 1

• Counseling is usually conducted within the auspices of the mental health model of addiction. Addiction is seen as an illness that can be treated through a combination of techniques and strategies.
• A drug addiction rehab may employ counselors from different frameworks in an effort to broaden the skill set of its team.
• Relapse Prevention counselling is a cognitive-behavioral therapy used in addiction treatment centers. It was originally developed for the treatment of problem drinking, but was later adapted for cocaine addicts. Cognitive-behavioral strategies are based on the theory that learning processes play a critical role in the development of maladaptive behavioral patterns. Individuals learn to identify and correct problematic behaviors.
• Relapse prevention encompasses several cognitive-behavioral strategies that facilitate abstinence as well as provide help for people who experience relapse.
• Motivational Enhancement Therapy is a client-centered counseling approach for initiating behavior change by helping clients to resolve ambivalence about engaging in treatment and stopping drug use. This approach employs strategies to evoke rapid and internally motivated change in the client, rather than guiding the client stepwise through the recovery process.
• Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents incorporates the principle that unwanted behavior can be changed by clear demonstration of the desired behavior and consistent reward of incremental steps toward achieving it while in a drug rehab addiction treatment program.
• According to research studies, this therapy helps adolescents become drug free and increases their ability to remain drug free after treatment ends. Adolescents also show improvement in several other areas employment/school attendance, family relationships, depression, institutionalization, and alcohol use.
• National Institute in drug abuse is an effective assessment for counseling because it:-
• identifies the biological, environmental, behavioral and social causes and consequences of drug use and addiction across the lifespan;
• Develops improved strategies to prevent drug use and its consequences;
• Develops new and improved treatments to help people with substance use disorders achieve and maintain a meaningful and sustained recovery;
• Increase the public health impact of NIDA research and programs