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Psychologist Post-Test

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Questions:

1. What are bodily systems for which you might provide alcohol education if your addicted client is receptive to being provided with the facts?
2. What are the three key aspects of an addict’s relationship with the object of his or her addiction?
3. What are nine common signs of the internal conflict between the parent, child, and adult sides of the addicts personality?
4. When do clients with addictive personalities encounter resistance?
5. What are the five common myths that addicts believe about expressing feelings?

 Answers:

A. That they won’t be able to stop crying, that acknowledging grief and disappointment will damage them, that they will become impulsive or violent if they express anger, that expressing feelings will increase pain, and that feeling positive feelings will get them hurt.
B. An object’s predictability, misplaced priorities, and confusion of intensity for intimacy.
C. The nervous, digestive, and muscular systems.
D. When they attempt to change their behavior.
E. Feeling obsessive, compulsive, or addictive; procrastinating; fighting or arguing with others; depression; dissatisfaction; irritability; exhaustion; anxiety; tension.

Questions:

6. What percent of alcoholics achieve life-long abstinence with or without the AA approach?
7. In Alcoholics Anonymous, what is meant by "limited control"?
8. The "disease" of the addictive process is a metaphor for what two things?
9. Why do some middle-class respondents have the ability to naturally recover?

Answers:

A. Modern-day isolation and despair.
B. 5%
C. The more realistic, and less frightening idea of not drinking "one day a time" instead of "not drinking forever".
D. The respondents had relatively stable lives: they had jobs, supportive families, high school and college credentials, and other social supports that gave them reasons to alter their drug-taking behavior. They also had a lot to lose from addictive behavior.

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