by Fi Mackenzie | Apr 22, 2016 | Research articles
How do You Know When Someone With an Addiction is Motivated to Change? A client displays his motivation by his behaviour, by what he does (or fails to do): “In general, we know that our clients are motivated when they get moving – take their medication as prescribed,...
by Fi Mackenzie | Apr 22, 2016 | Research articles
The Grief Cycle Model was developed in the 1960s by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, a Swiss psychologist who specialised in working with terminally ill cancer patients and their families. She noticed that both the cancer sufferers and their families tended to move through a...
by Fi Mackenzie | Apr 22, 2016 | Research articles
Recovery from addiction is essentially about profound change, on all levels. The Transtheoretical Model of Intentional Human Behaviour Change (DiClemente and Prochaska; 1985, 1998) is used by addictions counsellors all over the world to explain this process. The...
by Fi Mackenzie | Apr 22, 2016 | Research articles
Bulimia Nervosa is a disorder in which eating binges are followed by self-induced vomiting or ‘purging.’ The DSM-IV-TR criteria are mostly about observable behaviours, but there is also a crucial psychological element, i.e. that the eating disordered individual...
by Fi Mackenzie | Apr 22, 2016 | Research articles
Pathological Gambling Pathological gambling is believed to affect an estimated 3%-5% of adult Americans (Slutske, Jackson, and Sher, 2003). Nor are pathological gamblers exclusively male. Studies in Spain and the USA have consistently found 30% – 35% of excessive...
