Information gathering is important on how one conducts the screening and assessment. Screening and evaluation are usually the initial contacts between a substance user and the treatment system. It is important to create a trusting relationship or create an environment that is not conducive to services. Self-administered tools may be more likely to get honest answers; this is especially true regarding questions related to drug and alcohol use. Face-to-face screening interviews have not always managed
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Living Sober Group is an Alcoholic Anonymous group that allows the people who attend to share their stories with others who are like them. They talk about how they have gone from being alcoholics to becoming sober and their journey to this state. The purpose of this group is to help people each week stay sober and not fall back into the drinking that they used to do. The group had four facilitators that kept the group in order and moved the meeting along. Each week around twenty participants show
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Makiyah was referred to FACT on 9/21/17 by PerformCare for displaying youth was referred to FACT by PerformCare due to youth having suicidal thoughts. Makiyah wrote to a friend that, “she was stressed and that dying is a way out.” It was noted in the referral that Makiyah was experiencing significant symptoms of depression, difficulty sleeping, peer conflicts, isolating, presenting with depressed mood, and irritability. Makiyah reported feeling stressed due to not being able to go out with her
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KIDS DEBUNKED Adolescences is a turning point for many of us; but for some without the right guidance, it can be a time of perpetual destruction. This is what director Larry Clark captures in his 1995 indie movie, Kids. Clark’s motion picture follows the daily routine (Life?) of two delinquents, Telly and Casper, in the downtown area of New York. They trek through the day engrossed in their own world filled with self-destruction and momentary euphoria through various sexual activities, and recreational
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Gambling Addiction Assistance Resources for Seniors in the San Fernando Valley The problem of gambling addiction affects the elderly just as much as it does younger people. In fact, many elderly people may be even more susceptible to this problem than they might have been when they were younger. A person who has too much time available and who feels isolated could innocently turn to gambling as a pastime. That pastime may quickly turn into an addiction for someone who already has an addictive personality
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In addition to that Fearfull mentions that social construction skill can give results that may be either positive or negative. She also differentiates skills as genuine or socially constructed. The reason for this is because a social construction is focused on the vulnerable areas of the work place. She gives an example as those who are highly feminized when they should not be, and all of this is due to a social construct. In a feminized environment clerks are not seen as actors but rather as the
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The Glass Castle is a novel that vividly describes the dysfunction of the Walls family. The stories that are described are told by Jeannette Walls who is also the author of the book. In the book, Jeannette describes her life from the age of three years old to adulthood. She tells numerous stories of how her and her family were nomads, and how she managed to escape poverty and become a member of societies middle class. The family lived from city to city and state to state for short periods of time
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singer- songwriter died from an accidental alcohol poisoning. She was found on her bed, fully clothed with vodka bottles on the floor. It is said that she was watching YouTube videos of herself the night before she died. Winehouse had a known drug addiction; however, she had not been taking drugs for three years at the time of the accident. Her father says that she was also trying to abstain from alcohol. She went twelve-thirteen days without any drinking, but days before she died, she consumed a lot
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patient until she is free from the addiction since the consequentialism ethical theory claims that the outcome of an action determines its morality. The consequentialism theory argues that the only way an individual can effectively judge the morality of an action is through analyzing its outcome (Yazdani, Naveed, and Hasan 23). Therefore, Dr. Simmons should continue prescribing the drug that has already been altered by the pharmacist in order to correct the addiction problem of her patient. The reason
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Health Care Delivery Systems Ja*** Sta***** 04/12/2011 Health Care Delivery Systems Exam Paper The challenges faced in our most extreme healthcare facilities The Dialysis, Correctional, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse health care facilities are four very diverse settings in many ways. Yet in others they are similar. They represent many of the aspects of society that are orphaned, discarded, or swept under the rug, challenging both the caregiver and patient alike. Each represents an
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