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Author Yip, Kam-Shing.

Title Drug Addiction, Trauma and Mental Illness.

Publication Info. New York : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (202 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Mental Illnesses and Treatments Ser.
Mental Illnesses and Treatments Ser.
Note Description based upon print version of record.
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Challenges in Working with People with Chronic Drug Addiction -- Introduction -- Challenges in Working with Clients with Chronic Drug Addiction -- Resistance and Countertransference -- Intensive Emotions and Confusion -- Craving for Drugs -- Complaints and Hopelessness of Family Members -- Accumulated Traumas, Crises, and Emergencies -- Immorality, Illegality, and Irrationality -- Professional Attributes in Working with Clients with Chronic Drug Addiction -- Clinical Supervisor and Colleagues' Support -- Advanced Professional Training
Professional Commitment and Endurance -- Humanity, Versatility, Complexity, and Flexibility -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 -- Drug Addiction, Trauma, and Mental Illness: Complexity and Comprehensiveness -- Introduction -- Dynamics and Dilemmas between Traumas and Drug Addiction -- Forces A and B -- Forces A and B in Different Stages of Drug Addiction -- Stage 1: Force A Only (Initial or Occasional Users) -- Stage 2: Force A Inhibits Force B (Regular Users: Initial Addiction) -- Stage 3: Force A Combines with Force B (Long-Term Regular Users: Full Addiction)
Stage 4: Force A Reinforces Force B (Chronic Addiction) -- Stage 5: Force B Inhibits Force A (Rock Bottom of Chronic Addiction) -- Multi-Dimensional Perspective of Drug Addiction -- Disease and Biochemical Models -- Harm Reduction Model -- Harm Reduction by Prescribed Controlled Substance -- Behavioral Harm Reduction Strategies -- Cognitive Harm Reduction Strategies -- Lifestyle Balance Activities -- Existential Perspective -- Existential Perspective in Terms of Choice and Meaning -- Psychodynamic Perspective in Drug Addiction -- Self-Psychology in Drug Addiction: Narcissism and Narcosis
Khantzian's Self-Medication -- Compulsiveness of Drug Addiction -- Drug Addiction as Attachment and Love -- Drug Addiction and Love -- Addiction to Experience -- Addiction and Attachment -- A Holistic Human Dimension of Drug Addiction -- Natures and Destructive Effects of Trauma -- Traumatic Event Defined in DSM IV -- Acute Stress Disorder and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder -- Acute Stress Disorder: Diagnosis, Symptoms and Etiology -- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Diagnosis, Symptoms, and Etiology -- The Breaking, Loss, and Repression in Trauma -- Breaking Process of Trauma
Effects of Loss in Trauma -- Repression in Trauma -- The Wounded Self -- A Comprehensive Process of Traumatization -- Trauma and Mental Illness -- Different Types of Traumas and Their Destructive Effects -- Abandonment Trauma -- Emotional Neglect and Psychological Abuse -- Physical Abuse -- Sex Abuse -- Destructive Effects of Child Abuse -- Drug Addiction and Mental Illness -- Drug Addiction and Mental Illness: Causes and Effects and Different Positions -- Types of Drugs and Types of Mental Illness -- Drug Addiction and Psychosis/Schizophrenia -- Drug Addiction and Depression
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Drug abuse.
Drug abuse.
Drug addiction -- Psychological aspects.
Drug addiction -- Psychological aspects.
Other Form: Print version: Yip, Kam-Shing Drug Addiction, Trauma and Mental Illness: Interpretation and Intervention New York : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated,c2018 9781536140200
ISBN 153614021X
9781536140217 (electronic book)