HERE IS YOUR START: My goal was to abstain from social media. I had to modify it because of the live streamed spiritual lessons I watch. It was not extremely because I only have a Facebook account. I am not one of those people who constantly posting about my life. I normally scroll through the feed and watch funny videos or see funny post and send them to friends and family.
INSTRUCTIONS ARE BELOW:
- A summary of your experience with abstinence, including its effects (positive and negative) on those you live with or those closest to you (family, friends, etc.). Include your overall progress, such as successes, relapse(s), or even failure to abstain.
- Explain how internal influences such as individual traits, age, gender, and personality, affected your overall experience.
- Explain how external influences such as family, culture, and other considerations affected your overall progress.
- How might this experience apply to working with clients with addictive disorders, or with clients who are affected, directly or indirectly, by addictive disorders?
- What has changed in terms of your perspectives of addiction from Week 1 to Week 10? Consider etiology, addiction as a choice, your abstinence experience assignment, and any personal biases in your response.
- Regardless of whether you intend to go into the field of addictions counseling, what do you think is the most important issue you could advocate for to affect positive social change in this field?
- What is your biggest takeaway from this course?
REFERENCE:
https://www.nbcc.org/certification/mac
https://www.naadac.org/advocacy
Capuzzi, D., & Stauffer, M. D. (2020). Foundations of addictions counseling (4th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
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- Chapter 14, “Substance Addiction and Families”
Choose one of the following as they apply to your discussion:
- Chapter 17, “Cross-Cultural Counseling: Engaging Ethnic Diversity”
- Chapter 18, “Gender, Sex, and Addictions” (pp. 386–405)
- Chapter 19, “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Affirmative Addictions Treatment”