Health Psychology: Substance Misuse
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- Created on: 06-06-14 10:37
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- Substance Misuse
- Cognitive
- Treating it: CBT to change the way they think of it from positive to negative.
- Why it starts: Receive positive info and benefits from the substance consumption
- Preventing it: education about negatives of drug consumption
- Social
- Treating it: change their ingroup
- Preventing it: selective of the ingroup to join.
- Why it starts: ingroup (social identity theory) peer pressure of group, parent behaviour and beliefs.
- Biological
- Treating it: detox, give the individual, small amounts of drugs. Drug Replacement.
- Why it starts: Nature, inherit addictive personality. Nurture, mother takes drugs child becomes dependent.
- Unable to prevent
- Health
- study of how our mental and physical health can be assessed.
- develops understanding of what causes good/bad health from cognitive/social/ biological approachs as health is a state of mental, physical and social wellbeing.
- health psychologists then use this understanding to promote good health.
- For example, Health psychologists investigate biological causes for substance misuse eg genetic predisposition, and the physical action of drugs in brain.
- Drugs
- Prescribed: Medically required
- Psychoactive: Taken recreationally for their mind altering effects.
- Substance misuse
- Intake of drugs in quantities that could be damaging to physical or mental health.
- For example: nicotine, alcohol. they interfere with school, family and can lead to harder drugs
- Synapse
- Tiny gaps between neurons that neurotransmitters pass across enabling chemcal communication between neurons
- Tolerance
- when physically dependent on drugs and has to take increasing amounts of it in order to achieve the effects they did when they first started taking it.
- Tolerance occurs with drugs like cocaine, heroine and alcohol.
- Result of down regulation or an increase in enzymes in the liver which break down the drug molecules.
- Withdrawal
- Unpleasant physical effects experienced by a physically dependent user as effects wear off.
- Symptoms are generally opposite to the effects of drug - vomiting, shaking, depression, headache.
- Physical dependence
- A compulsion to keep taking drugs due to a change in the neurochemistry of the brain which changes its normal functioning so the body requires the drug to function normally.
- The user experiences both tolerance and withdrawal symptoms.
- Cognitive
- Why it starts: ingroup (social identity theory) peer pressure of group, parent behaviour and beliefs.
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