SOCW 6202 Week 2 Assignment - Assignment: Scholar Practitioner Project: Chemical and Behavioral Addictions

Week 2: Chemicals and Behaviors of Addiction

Consider this scenario:

As a new professional, you have two new clients for whom you are providing services. During your initialassessments, you note that one client reports using alcohol and prescription medicine to control herweight. She is frustrated by her lack of weight loss and often ends up binging on fast foods. Your otherclient has sought treatment because he is struggling with an Internet pornography addiction.

What are the similarities and differences between these types of addictions? Can you use the same treatmentstrategies for both clients? Helping professionals often must distinguish between chemical and behavioraladdictions, which can be challenging.

Learning Resources

Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course ReadingsList, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings

Doweiko, H. E. (2019). Concepts of chemical dependency (10th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage.

Chapter 5, "Alcohol Use Disorders"(pp. 46-62)

Chapter 15, “Tobacco Products and Tobacco Use” (pp. 195-210)

Bean, A. M., Nielsen, R. K., Van Rooij, A. J., & Ferguson, C. J. (2017). Video game addiction: The pushto pathologize video games. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 48(5), 378-389.

Kardefelt‐Winther, D., Heeren, A., Schimmenti, A., van Rooij, A., Maurage, P., Carras, M., ... & Billieux, J.(2017). How can we conceptualize behavioural addiction without pathologizing common behaviours?.Addiction, 112(10), 1709-1715.

Higuchi, S., Nakayama, H., Mihara, S., Maezono, M., Kitayuguchi, T., & Hashimoto, T. (2017). Inclusionof gaming disorder criteria in ICD-11: A clinical perspective in favor: Commentary on: Scholars’ opendebate paper on the World Health Organization ICD-11 Gaming Disorder proposal (Aarseth et al.).Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 6(3), 293-295.

Required Media

Laureate Education (Producer). (2012a). Behavioral and chemical addiction [Video file]. Retrieved fromhttps://class.waldenu.edu.

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 20 minutes.

Assignment: Scholar Practitioner Project: Chemical and Behavioral Addictions

Many individuals who seek treatment for a chemical addiction may have an unidentified behavioral addiction as well, or it might be the other way around. It is not uncommon for individuals to experience chemical and behavioral cross-addictions, replacing one addiction with another. Some treatment approaches may be appropriate for both chemical and behavioral addictions, but some may not.

For this Assignment, review this week's Resources. Reflect on the characteristics of chemical and behavioral addictions. Examine the similarities and differences between chemical and behavioral addictions. Consider challenges in treatment for chemical and behavioral addictions.

Assignment:

In a 750-Word APA-formatted paper, address the following:

· Select two chemical addictions and two behaviors of addiction and describe the symptoms of each.

· Explain the similarities and differences between the chemical and behavioral addictions that you chose.

· Explain how these similarities and differences pose a challenge for addiction professionals in making treatment decisions.

· Explain any insights you gained as a result of analyzing the similarities and differences between chemical and behavioral addictions.

· Support your response using the Resources and the current literature. Must contain at least 4 references and citations obtained from the above Learning Resources.