Reducing addiction - Behavioral interventions
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- Created on: 09-06-18 20:44
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- Reducing addiction - Planned behaviour
- 3) Perceived behavioral control
- whether or not the client believe they are capable of abstaining, so they think it would be hard or easy. Also, dependence party on resource they believe have have available
- 1) Personal beliefs
- refers to the collection attitudes of the client's attitudes towards their addiction. Which is formed from weighing up the balance of the positive and negative evaluation
- 2) Subjective Norms
- The client's beliefs about whether those closest to them would approve or disapprove of their addiction
- Its the addict's perception of whether people approve or disapprove
- The client's beliefs about whether those closest to them would approve or disapprove of their addiction
- 3) Perceived behavioral control
- Evaluation
- One limitation is that the treatment cannot account for intention-behavior gap, can't explain how actual behavior arose from intention
- Researcher study gambling behaviors of underage teenagers and found that strong support for the element of TPB that predict intention from attitudes, social subjective norms and perceived control
- Did not predict the occurrence of gambling behavior, therefore it is hard to create drug-related interventions
- Researcher study gambling behaviors of underage teenagers and found that strong support for the element of TPB that predict intention from attitudes, social subjective norms and perceived control
- Another limitation of TPB us the mythological issues as is was based on self-report, where aspects are assessed by asking individuals about their views.
- However, self-report methods are substantial and include social desirability bias, as participates may say things to make themselves look good
- A strength of TPB is the research support, as researcher tested the TPB's prediction bout alcohol-related behaviors.
- One limitation is that the treatment cannot account for intention-behavior gap, can't explain how actual behavior arose from intention
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