Based on the two texts you have read, Sheff, D. (2009). Beautiful boy: A father’s journey through his son’s addiction. Mariner. Beautiful Boy by David Sheff and Sheff, N. (2008). Tweak: Growing up on methamphetamines. Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Tweak by Nicholas Sheff, write a research paper that is focused on one of the three questions in the box below. To support your research you must use 3-5 credible references from journal articles from the Excelsior Library.
NOTE: To conform with APA style the paper must have all the following elements:
- 5- 7-page length, not including cover and reference pages
- an introduction and a concluding statement
- Double‐spaced text
- 12‐point Times New Roman font
- 1” margins
- Running head and numbered pages
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Choose ONE question from the following list of three questions to write your paper:
1. Discuss the impact of Nic’s abuse on his family and community. Reflect on the consequences of his abuse and relate it to the stages of change that he was in at the time. Utilize at least three additional research sources to describe the family and community impacts.
2. Utilize and incorporate the rehabilitation readiness and stages of change research to help explain Nic’s relapses and rehabilitation attempts. Analyze these attempts and identify possible reasons recovery was or was not successful at each attempt. What were three possible strategies to promote recovery that would be appropriate to engage with Nic based on his stage of change at the time?
3. Research the differences between the disease model and the harm reduction model. Incorporate the importance of stages of change/treatment in relation to successful recovery attempts. How do these models assist in understanding Nic’s road to recovery as described by himself and his family?