PSYC 3403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Diethylaminosulfur Trifluoride, Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, Response Bias

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3403
• Professor: John Weekes

Document Summary

Understand the client, develop specific intervention strategies. Internal hypotheses about someone; internal thoughts about the person impressions to develop questions about someone. Conceptualizing problematic use as a binary phenomenon (problem/no problem) problem/no problem approach binary approach; in this category or not continuum not all or none. Subjective impressions and non-theoretical and non-empirical assumptions belief based; not always empirical should not be just subjective. Substance abuse is a chronic, progressive disease genetic components but. Belief that (cid:272)lie(cid:374)ts a(cid:396)e i(cid:374) a state of (cid:862)de(cid:374)ial(cid:863) hit rock bottom before coming back up. Ca(cid:374)"t t(cid:396)ust self-report due to denial other people may not recognize that their behaviour is problematic just do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449); (cid:374)ot (cid:374)e(cid:272)essa(cid:396)ily i(cid:374) de(cid:374)ial. Often focus on lifetime use patterns o(cid:448)e(cid:396) the (cid:272)lie(cid:374)t"s life. Non-structured interviews need to be structured. Semi-structured subjective interviews some structured some hybrid. Lack of objective assessment techniques, technologies and approaches that have a solid theoretical and empirical foundation.