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Approaches to Substance Abuse Disorder

1) What family conditions place individuals at risk? Discuss how educators and other helping professionals may respond to this working with groups?

According to Kanas (1988) family conditions placing individuals at risk for substance abuse disorders can involve forms of childhood trauma such as overprotective parents, maternal neglect or frustration of dependency needs. Further, alcoholic parents can place their children at risk through both role modeling of drinking behavior and through biogenetic mechanisms (Sue, Sue & Sue, 1994).

Also, Knopf (1984) reports that a high incidence of conflict at home can lead to substance abuse disorders. Sometimes but not always, there can be abusive situations in the home such as battering or physical abuse of a child (Sue, Sue & Sue, 1994).

Most educational approaches to substance abuse disorder have focused on warning of the dangers through the media and other informational forums (Kinney & Leaton, 1991). However, these media could be used to also inform as to how family system interaction affects one's substance usage pattern. Danger signals in terms of the home environment could be provided.

As for others in the helping professions, there are a variety of counseling strategies offered to substance users. According to Peterson and Nisenholz (1987), many of these groups focus on family issues and help substance abusers to face unresolved family conflicts. Some groups also include family members; Peterson and Nisenholz report that such groups have been extremely effective in getting substance abusers not only to change their behavior but also to maintain the change.

2) The "deficit theories" have been used as explanations of substance abuse. What is meant by this? What are the alternative explanations which may be useful in understanding the problem?

The deficit theory of substance abuse or addiction, according to Vaillant and Milofsky (1982), posits that the addicti...

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