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...
by Fi Mackenzie | Apr 22, 2016 | Research articles
Addiction can exist without physical dependence: “Complicating matters, physical dependence is not necessary for the notion of addiction to apply. For example, upon stopping, pathological gamblers who do not use alcohol or other psychoactive drugs often reveal...
by Fi Mackenzie | Apr 22, 2016 | Research articles
Substance use Disorders and Co-occurring Psychiatric Disorders Dual diagnosis is the term normally used to describe people with both substance use problems and psychiatric problems (Fitzgerald, 1997). Dual disorders are fairly common among substance misusing clients....
