PSY333H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Standard Drink, Harm Reduction, Sleep Disorder
Document Summary
Health compromising behaviours: behaviours practiced by people that undermine or harm their current or future health: abusing alcohol, smoking, unsafe sex. These are adolescent focused: peer culture, self-presentation, some of these behaviours can be rewarding, these behaviours can be gradually learned. Higher levels of health-compromising behaviours are often found in adolescents with: deviant behaviour, low self-esteem, problematic family relationships. Combing long hours at work with school include risk of drug abuse: those who abuse drugs also tend to do poorly at school. Difficult temperament, poor self control, deviance-prone attitudes. Dependent on a substance if repeatedly self-administer it, resulting in tolerance, withdrawal, compulsive behaviour. Addiction: occurs when a person becomes physical or psychologically dependent on a substance following use over time. Withdrawal: unpleasant symptoms experienced when stop taking substance on which on has become dependent: anxiety, irritable, intense cravings, nausea, headaches, shaking, hallucinations.
