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    Cognitive Behavior Therapy Internet Addiction: The First Treatment Model for Internet Addiction written by Kimberly S. Young. This article presents internet addiction as one of the newest clinical disorder. Unfortunately‚ internet addiction is growing in many countries. The problem is detecting and diagnosing the addiction‚ but has been categorized with impulse-control disorders. Cognitive Behavior Therapy has been the most beneficial treatment for impulse-disorders. But this Cognitive Behavior Therapy

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    The Disease Model Benefits of the Disease Model The disease model views addiction as a disease thus allowing the healthcare system to provide assistance in prevention and treatment of addiction. By implementing the healthcare system to be involved‚ any person suffering from addiction can receive treatment where they may not if addiction was not considered a disease. Scientific advances have shown that addiction has long term effects on the brain and effects the behavior of an individual. With the

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    Addiction is the continued use of a mood altering substance or behavior despite adverse dependency consequences‚ or a neurological impairment leading to such behaviors. Addictions can include‚ but are not limited to‚ alcohol abuse‚ drug abuse‚ exercise abuse‚ pornography and gambling. Classic hallmarks of addiction include: impaired control over substances or behavior‚ preoccupation with substance or behavior‚ continued use despite consequences‚ and denial. The adolescents and young adults try drugs

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    The cognitive causal model of depression is the model with the most empirical evidence in treating depression. According to this model‚ it is one’s cognitions - thoughts and beliefs- that shape one’s behaviors and emotions. The most prominent proponent of the cognitive model of depression is Aaron Beck. He proposed that depressive symptoms result when people’s attributions for external events are based on maladaptive beliefs and attitudes (Persons‚ Davison‚ Tompkins). The cognitive model of depression

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    being highly valued and limited‚ and cognitive miserliness occurs out of efficiency (Fiske & Taylor‚ 1984). Tversky and Kahneman (1974) proposed 3 types of heuristics: representativeness‚ availability and anchoring. We will use the representativeness heuristic to illustrate the model. This model suggests that individuals typically do not act like scientists who rationally analyse information in daily life. Instead‚ individuals are more inclined to act as cognitive misers using mental shortcuts to assess

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    Outline and evaluate the cognitive explanation of gambling addiction (4 marks + 6 marks) The cognitive explanation of addiction focuses on the way humans’ process information‚ viewing addicts as people who have faulty thoughts/judgements. The faulty thinking that surrounds a gambling addiction‚ according to the cognitive approach‚ is the belief that we will win‚ or at least be able to control the odds of winning‚ for example‚ a gambling addict‚ using his/her ‘lucky numbers’ on the lottery gives

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    Running head: MODELS OF ADDICTION 1 The Three Models of Addiction Barbara Perry Liberty University MODELS OF ADDICTION 2 The addicted person can be a composite of patterns of behavior‚ predisposition‚ and social environment. Generally‚ he is preoccupied with the substance or behavior

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    LEARNING MODELS OF ADDICTION Behavioural approach say that addiction is learnt and it could be learnt through operant conditioning‚ classical conditioning and social learning theories. Individuals will typically learn to persform behaviours because they are associated with the onset of something pleasant(e.g. feelings of euphoria) or According to operant conditioning‚ Classical conditioning sees addiction occurring through stimuli being associated with each other. One of these‚ the UCS produces

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    The brain disease model of addiction (BDMA) is an approach that describes an addiction as a chronic relapsing brain disease with biological‚ neurological‚ genetic‚ and environmental sources of origin (Leshner‚ 1997). This new definition of addiction was proposed through discovery of evidence that the brain drastically changes through repeated use of addictive substances (in terms of this essay‚ drugs)‚ such as altering the brain’s mesolimbic pathway through constant release of dopamine (CITATION

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    Genetic explanations for the Initiation of addictions Heritability of addictions such as alcoholism and gambling can be studied through family and twin studies. The presumptions of twin and family studies are that if family members share similar behaviours‚ then the degree to which the behaviours are caused by genetic factors can be examined. There are two types of twins‚ identical and non-identical. Identical twins are monozygotic (MZ) as they came from the same egg‚ and therefore share an identical

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