Expectation:
Please no plagiarism and make sure you are able to access all resource on your own before you bid. Main references come from Van Wormer, K., & Davis, D. R. (2018) and/or American Psychiatric Association. (2013). You need to have scholarly support for any claim of fact or recommendation regarding treatment. I have also attached my discussion rubric so you can see how to make full points. Please respond to all 3 of my classmates separately with separate references for each response. You need to have scholarly support for any claim of fact or recommendation like peer-reviewed, professional scholarly journals. If you draw from the internet, I encourage you to use websites from the major mental health professional associations (American Counseling Association, American Psychological Association, etc.) or federal agencies (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of Health (NIH), etc.). I need this completed by 05/04/19 at 2pm.
Expectation:
Responses to peers. Note that this is measured by both the quantity and quality of your posts. Does your post contribute to continuing the discussion? Are your ideas supported with citations from the learning resources and other scholarly sources? Note that citations are expected for both your main post and your response posts. Note also, that, although it is often helpful and important to provide one or two sentence responses thanking somebody or supporting them or commiserating with them, those types of responses do not always further the discussion as much as they check in with the author. Such responses are appropriate and encouraged; however, they should be considered supplemental to more substantive responses, not sufficient by themselves.
Read a your colleagues’ postings. Respond to your colleagues’ postings.
Respond in one or more of the following ways:
· Ask a probing question.
· Share an insight gained from having read your colleague’s posting.
· Offer and support an opinion.
· Validate an idea with your own experience.
· Make a suggestion.
· Expand on your colleague’s posting.
1. Classmate (A. Mc)
Luckily for me, this assignment lined up perfectly with my season of Lent. Therefore, I had multiple motivations to be successful in my abstinence. I decided to give up chocolate and other desserts/sweets. While my experience was (mostly) successful, I did experience moments of weakness. For example, as a woman, I tend to crave what I was abstaining from about once a month, if you’re picking up what I’m putting down. Therefore, around this time, I found it much more difficult to continue my abstinence from chocolate and sweets. I found myself searching for loopholes throughout the duration of this assignment and Lenten season, as well. I found food items that I wouldn’t typically call chocolate or desserts to ease my sweet tooth (e.g. pumpkin bread and strawberries soaked in a little bit of sugar). There were two times where I completely failed to abstain: (1) at my niece’s very first birthday party (I just had to have chocolate cake on this special occasion, right?) and (2) when I was sick with a high fever and loss of appetite, all I wanted was a chocolate shake.
My boyfriend joined me on this journey, as he was abstaining from chocolate (only) for Lent. I believe this made my experience with abstinence much easier. Whenever I really wanted that piece of chocolate or just one Starburst, he was always there to tell me “no.” This was something we were doing together and neither of us wanted to let the other down—accountability. My mom was also very supportive of my abstinence, except for the time she told me it was okay to eat the chocolate birthday cake. The idea of Lent is to “fast” but not publicize your fasting. Therefore, there were not many people who knew that I was giving up chocolate and sweets. For this reason, I was often tempted and offered the exact thing(s) I was trying to avoid.
I will never be able to fully understand what it might feel like to abstain from drugs, alcohol, gambling and other addictions. However, this assignment helped me identify things to discuss with my clients, things to look out for, weak moments, and the effects of the people around someone abstaining. For example, I can imagine that there were thoughts I had that may be similar to a future client’s:
· Well, just this one time. It’s a special occasion.
· I don’t feel well, and I know the one thing that will make me feel better.
· This substance will help ease my cravings, and it’s not necessarily what I am abstaining from.
Further, I learned that a support system is very important to be successful. Helping the client to identify their own support system or find one (e.g. AA or other mutual help groups) would be an important task when working with clients with an addiction diagnosis.
2. Classmate (C. Ree)