Assignment: Treatment for addictions

Assignment: Treatment for addictions

Assignment: Treatment for addictions

MENTAL DISORDERS

Tim

Kaplan University

PS 380: Clinical Psychology

Unit 9 Seminar Option 2

Professor Albert Scherry

13 March 2016

You will benefit most from attending the graded Seminar as an active participant. However, if you are unable to attend you have the opportunity to make up the points by summarizing the archived Seminar. Your paper should be written in appropriate APA style for a written summary. In other words, you are not required to use direct quotes, cite references, include an abstract, or include a reference page. You do, however, have to write in complete sentences and paragraphs, provide a title page, and include a professional presentation. Listen to the archived Seminar to provide a summary and respond to the Seminar questions. Submit your summary to the Seminar Dropbox before the end of the unit to receive credit.

Please come to Seminar prepared to discuss the following:

1. Treatment for addictions is most often done in a group setting. Why do you think this is so? What in the nature of addictive personality or addition problems makes group therapy a more effective treatment venue? If your client has both an addiction and a psychiatric problem such as depression or bipolar disorder, which do you treat first?

2. Now that you have a better understanding of what the world of clinical psychology is all about, what are your thoughts regarding possible careers? If you came into the course with a specific path in mind, has that path been altered or reinforced in any way by this course?

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