How can we explain the role of biology and environment to family members of someone who may be in treatment for a substance use disorder?

Biological Basis of Addiction& Dingel (2015) presents the argument that the complexity of genetic and environmental contributions to addiction are often oversimplified in the media. The prevailing arguments may be distilled to explain addiction as either a lack of willpower or genetic fate. In your Substance Abuse and the Family text, Reiter (2019) discusses the […]

Discuss the pros and cons of in-depth training of one form of therapy versus a breadth-based training of multiple forms of therapy.

Integrative Therapies Advocates of learning a single form of therapy in depth and conceptualizing and treating patients from one model have accused integrative approaches of creating therapists who are jacks of all trades and masters of none. Discuss the pros and cons of in-depth training of one form of therapy versus a breadth-based training of […]