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Addiction Concept Working Hypothesis or Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?

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ISBN-10: 0205286429

ISBN-13: 9780205286423

Edition: 1999

Authors: Glenn D. Walters

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Admitting to an addiction has long been touted as the first step to recovery. But for those who are actually struggling with compulsive behavior, admitting to an addiction is admitting in part to defeat and failure, and succumbing to a permanent label from which they are never truly freed -- "once an addict, always an addict." This book explores the addiction concept, and how, in some instances, replacing it with alternative avenues of therapy can mean the difference between enervation and empowerment for many individuals. This book explores the logical, empirical, and practical limitations of the addiction concept, its primary elements, and the models to which it has given birth. It…    
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List price: $38.80
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/14/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Glenn D. Walters received his Ph.D. at Texas Tech University in 1982 with a concentration in Counseling Psychology and a minor in Neuroscience. He is employed full-time as a psychologist in a correctional setting while also teaching courses, both graduate and undergraduate, as an Adjunct Professor at The Pennsylvania State University, Schuylkill, and Lehigh University. In addition to forensic psychology, he teaches abnormal psychology, psychological assessment, and developmental psychology. He has written two other books with SAGE: Drugs & Crime in Lifestyle Perspective (1994) and The Criminal Lifestyle: Patterns of Serious Criminal Conduct (1990). The present book is an outgrowth of the…    

Addiction Defined
A Brief History of Addiction
A Criterion Definition of Addiction
What Is the Addiction Concept?
Martin: An Illustrative Case Example
The Organization of This Book
The Lifestyle Model as an Alternative to the Addiction Concept
What Is a Lifestyle?
A Comparison of the Addiction and Lifestyle Concepts
A Brief Overview of Lifestyle Theory
Martin: A Lifestyle Analysis
Addiction as a Biological Construct
Biological Constructions of Addiction
Genetic Correlates of Addiction
Physiological Correlates of Addiction
Addiction as a Psychological Construct
Addiction as Self-Medication
Addiction as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
The Addictive Personality: Two Myths in One?
Addiction as a Sociological Construct
The Social Mold Perspective on Addiction
Addiction as Codependence
Addiction as a Pragmatic Construct
Prevention
Treatment
Maintenance Strategies
Research Focus: Therapist Effects
An Alternate View
Logical Limitations of the Addiction Concept
The Logical Analogy: Loss of Control
Logically Incongruent Premises: Split Responsibility
Argumentum ad Verecundian: Deification of the Twelve Steps
Argumentum ad Baculum: The Controlled Drinking Controversy
Argumentum ad Ignorantiam: Addictive Liability
Petitio Principii: The Tautology of Addiction
Composition: Dichotomy versus Continuum
Division: The Uniformity Myth
Empirical Limitations of the Addiction Concept
Controlled Involvement
Unassisted Change
Brief, Environmental, and Behavioral Interventions
Expectancies
Attributions: The Abstinence Violation Effect
Volition
The Sociocultural Parameters of Addictive Involvement
Setting Effects
Practical Limitations of the Addiction Concept
Reductionism
Options and Opportunities
The Stages of Change
Overfocusing
Accountability
Identity
Managing the Limitations of the Addiction Concept
The Logical Limitations of the Addiction Concept
The Empirical Limitations of the Addiction Concept
The Practical Limitations of the Addiction Concept
Facilitating Change
The Foundational Phase
The Vehicle Phase
The Resocialization Phase
The Lifestyle Change Program
Lifestyle Interventions with Martin
Addiction Denied
Attributes of a Good Working Hypothesis
Evaluation of the Addiction and Lifestyle Paradigms
Barriers to a New Paradigm
Closing Comment
References
Index