Environment
Conceptualizing alcohol and the workplace
- By Misc Author
- Published 02/6/2008
- Addiction Research , Environment
- Unrated
The workplace, as a distinct cultural environment within the larger community, can support or inhibit the development of problem drinking among workers. An understanding of workplace cultural factors is essential for minimizing risks of drinking problems among employees.
Establishing a Support System
- By N.I. D.A.
- Published 01/31/2006
- Environment
- Unrated
A social support system consists of people in your life to whom you give and from whom you receive help, support, friendship, or companionship.
Unhealthy Environments - Roots of Low Self-Esteem
- By James J. Messina
- Published 01/18/2006
- Environment
- Unrated
An overview of common characteristics of families, schools, work places, or community organizations which are unhealthy or dysfunctional environments.
Revisiting the Alcoholic Family
- By Errol Rodriguez
- Published 01/3/2006
- Environment , Psychoanalytic Theories of Addiction
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The concept of looking at family members in the etiology and maintenance of psychoactive substance use disorders dates back to the early 1930s...
The Role of Family and Significant Others
- By M. Duncan Stanton
- Published 12/27/2005
- Environment
- Unrated
Early views of drug-dependent individuals tended to characterize them as loners.. It was not until researchers began inquiring about addicts' living arrangements and familial contacts that the picture began to shift.
Dealing with Adolescent Experimentation
- By Robert Westermeyer
- Published 12/27/2005
- Helping a child or adolescent , Environment
- Unrated
Many adolescents experiment with alcohol, and there are a variety of reasons why they do so. Experimentation does not usually lead to alcohol or drug abuse. You can use your influence as a parent to help prevent experimenting from becoming a tenacious habit.
Alcohol and Society
- By Stanton Peele
- Published 12/23/2005
- Environment
- Unrated
Sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and psychologists, in their study of different cultures and historical eras, have noted how malleable people's drinking habits are.
Adult AD/HD Support Groups
- By AD DA
- Published 12/23/2005
- Environment
- Unrated
Database of support groups for adults with AD/HD.
Discovering Triggers of Your Drug & Alcohol Use
- By N.I. D.A.
- Published 12/21/2005
- Environment , Maintenance
- Unrated
A brief questionnaire to identify where and when you may be more likely to use drugs or alcohol.
The Codependency Idea: When Caring Becomes A Disease
- By Robert Westermeyer
- Published 02/28/2005
- Environment , Helping a child or adolescent
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The now tenacious attachment of the disease model and 12-step philosophy to caring behavior, commonly known as codependency, represents to me the most confusing, and iatrogenic ideas in the realm of clinical psychology. This popular construct is shunned by research psychologists and behaviorally- oriented clinical psychologists particularly for it's lack of empirical support.
