Treating Addictions Behavior

Treating Addictions Behavior

This course offers you an opportunity to investigate, consider, and apply your learning to the complex challenge of treating a clients addictive behaviors and maintaining a long-term healthy recovery. While professional intervention is highly contributory to this process, addicted individuals often benefit greatly from interaction and supportive communication with other addicts. Various support group and twelve-step programs offer a safe environment in which such interaction can be facilitated and encouraged.

Complete this weeks Learning Activity to prepare for your Assignment.

In your Unit 6 Assignment, you explored your community's resources and selected a specific organization to investigate and visit. For your Unit 9 Final Project, write a 2,500- 3,000-word essay sharing your observations and learning from your experience. Include a minimum of three scholarly research articles.

Locate an appropriate case study from your textbook and academically share the individual's recovery experience.
Discuss the treatment experience so that you illustrate your enhanced understanding of the treatment and recovery process as a result of both your visit to the group as well as your course room explorations.
Applying the individuals case study information, discuss how this individual may be personally impacted both positively and negatively by this group experience. Include any appropriate discussion of other professional interventions that you may be aware of.
Note that your selected case study should represent a client which you feel would be specifically well served by the organization you have observed. You may need to embellish the information contained in the case study in order to fully illustrate the group's orientation to addiction recovery as applied by the organization you have selected.
What is your impression of twelve-step or recovery-based peer support groups after your experience?
When might you rely upon this treatment option as an addictions counselor?
Discuss how this treatment orientation responds to professional ethical and legal challenges. When might you be reluctant to do so?
How do you see this process as contributory to sustained addiction-free behavior following treatment?

Assignment Guidelines

Your paper will require a minimum of three pieces of credible academic research in support of your observations and discussion. Each citation must be presented in appropriate APA format.

Your Unit 9 Final Project should be presented in the form of a well-written university-level document. It should be approximately 2,5003,000 words, double-spaced, and created in 12 point font. All work should be in the student's own words with quotes used very sparingly. Please be sure to answer every question within the body of your paper using proper APA citation and reference formatting.

Submitting Your Final Project

Put your Final Project in a Word document. Save it in a location and with a name that you will remember. When you are ready to submit it to the dropbox.

You should revisit the Dropbox to view any helpful feedback your instructor has left for you. Make sure that you save a copy of your submitted Assignment.

Please let me know if you can get this information for the case study.

https://kapextmediassl-a.akamaihd.net/artsSCi/Media/PS511/PS511_1903B/Case_2_Activity/story_html5.html

Please make sure the text book from my course is used and cited.

Capuzzi, D., & Stauffer, M. D. (2020). Foundations of addictions counseling (4th ed.). Pearson Education

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