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What counseling theories focused on unfinished business from the past and the here and now?
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Gestalt - This therapy uses open-ended questions and the promotion of characteristics such as genuine-ness, unconditional positive regard and several similiar characteristics to enhance the group process. It uses personal characteristics such as empathy, unconditional positve regard and several others.
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A vocabulary of counseling theories help counselors communicate with clients and other staff better. Which statement is true?
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The id is the force of our personality utilized to obtain goals. - The id is a personality force that unconsciously monitors the pleasure center whose goal is to obtain pleasure and avoid pain.
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Denial is a defense mechanism that utilizes forces in our personality to override a belief. Which force (id, superego or ego) is most likely used for individuals to continue drinking or drugging?
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The id operates on the reality principle. - The id unconsciously controls your pain center. It is a principle part of our personality and its main role is to avoid pain and obtain pleasure.
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Addiction may be better understood be defining:
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Physical dependence, tolerance, and psychological dependence.
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True or False: A physical withdrawal reaction is when someone stops drinking/smoking/using and the body has developed physical dependence.
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True.
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When a person takes the same dose of a drug over a period of time and finds that they get less and less of the effect they expect, we call this:
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Tolerance.
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True or False: Psychological dependence causes drug users to seek out more of the drug (drug seeking behavior)
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True.
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True or False: A first time user who took the same heroin dose as a user who had built up a heavy tolerance to a drug might overdose.
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True.
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Denial is:
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A powerful defense mechanism, a method addicts use to resist admitting their problem, and a major obstace in the road towards recovery.
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Concerning addictions, scientists:
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Are baffled why one person can drink and the next can't, are conducting research into what causes addictions, and have developed theories of what causes addictions.
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What are some of the different theories of what may contribute to addictions?
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Genetic factors, environmental factors, relationship with emotional disorders, medicating life's pains
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True or False: Research has shown that children of alcoholics, even those taken to non-drinking families at birth, are prone to becoming alcoholics in later life, if they start drinking.
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True.
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Environmental factors shown to have value as predictors of substance use, abuse, and/or addiction are:
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Parents who drinking and/or use and having friends who drink and/or use.
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True or False: Anxiety disorders and depression, as well as childhood hyperactivity when joined with conduct disorder or signs of antisocial personality disorder, HAVE NOT shown to increase vulnerability to alcohol and/or other drug use.
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False.
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True or False: When researchers say that some people might use alcohol or other drugs to medicate the pain, they are talking about the pain of psychological disorders or the pain of a disordered life.
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True.
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