Client is a divorced 45-year-old Caucasian male which has currently received a second DUI in three years of which this latest one, involved a serious automobile accident with injuries involved. Client is seeking treatment based on developing legal problems which appears due to alcohol related issues evident by receiving DUIs. Client is ordered by the court to attend treatment. Client is currently on probation and is ordered to see a probation counselor, randomly submit to UA test and states that he is also unable to drive due also losing his driver’s license for one year.
Client states that he has two children 18 and 20 years old with the youngest living with his ex-wife. Client states that his brother and father has also in the past experienced being convicted of DUIs and public intoxication arrests. Brother and father currently live in the same city as client, however, independently. Brother and father are currently and actively drinking. Client states that he began drinking in his adolescence and excessive intoxication began after joining the military with extreme abuses with alcohol.
Media contact helps impact social norms about alcohol according to Sudhinaraset, et al., (2016) through product placements, advertising, and stories in an extensive range of sources, including television, movies, social media, and other methods of entertainment. Though the sale of alcohol and marketing are regulated, Sudhinaraset, et al., (2016) postulates the publicity to alcohol and liquor advertisements, especially in the United States are extensive. According to Sudhinaraset, et al., (2016) empirical research has showed that the marketing of alcohol results in individuals developing beliefs supporting positives about drinking, therefore producing and increasing environments that are socially acceptable and encourage alcohol consumption (Sudhinaraset, et al.
, 2016).
Sudhinaraset, et al., (2016) asserts that the strongest stimuli on adolescent drinking behavior are developed through peer associations and family.
Social models clarify alcoholism regarding a learning hypothesis. Through operant conditioning, the fortifying components of alcohol use become routine. Psychological models clarify liquor maltreatment regarding “programmed musings,” which go before the individual’s progressively recognizable emotions about liquor. For instance, a programmed idea may be “I merit a beverage since I’ve had a harsh day.
Psychosocial treatment programs can target segments of the social and social structures encompassing an individual and the risky mental standards of conduct of that person (Medina, 2019).
A few mental and behavioral treatments have received support from logical examinations according to Medina, (2019) and have been regarded suitable by the American Psychological Association for treating alcohol use issues. These by and large take a patient-centered or a frameworks centered organization. Frameworks centered alludes to a treatment that chiefly focuses on the encompassing social and basic circle of the individual, instead of their psychological well-being status.
Psychosocial medicines that are sponsored by clinical research proof include: moderate drinking, conduct couple’s treatment for liquor use issue, persuasive meeting, intellectual social treatment, and prize-based possibility the board.
AA (A.A.), however not created as a clinical treatment, is the most generally utilized technique for staying abstinent from liquor. A.A. has been an incredible asset for some and can be utilized alone or in mix with treatment in advancement of restraint.
References
Medina, J. (2019, April 05). Psychosocial Treatments for Alcohol Use Disorder. Retrieved from
Sudhinaraset, M., Wigglesworth, C., & Takeuchi, D. T. (2016). Social and Cultural Contexts of Alcohol Use: Influences in a Social-Ecological Framework. Alcohol research : current reviews, 38(1), 35-45.