How people intentionally change addictive behaviors with and without treatment is not well understood by behavioral scientists. This article summarizes research on self-initiated and professionally facilitated change of addictive behaviors using the key transtheoretical constructs of stages

An opinion-driven behavioral dynamics model

The legendary jazz musician Charlie Parker once said of drugs, ‘They can get it out of your blood,but they can’t get it out of your mind. ’ Many people believe this to be true and portray the drug experience as if the user is possessed by demons and on automatic pilot without a will of their own.The twelve chapters in this book go a long way in dispelling these notions about drugs and other behaviours. The techniques of relapse prevention outlined in this book are based on what has been found to work in the substance use field. Here, however, the utility of these approaches is being extended into the treatment of other behav-iours. At first sight these behaviours do not seem to have much in common. Excessive alcohol use, illicit drug use, eating disorders, gambling and sexual activity are all covered. Yet they all stem from different motivations, different emotional and situational cues, different social circumstances and different psychological processes. What these behaviours do share is that they often attract public disapprobation and all carry a risk of being harmful to the indi-vidual and harmful to others. Those who have these behaviours also often claim

It is increasingly recognized that studying drug taking in laboratory animals does not equate to studying genuine addiction, characterized by loss of control over drug use. This has inspired recent work aimed at capturing genuine addiction-like behavior in animals. In this work, we summarize

the person to pastoral counseling. This study investigated the validity of the RSI using a sample of 45 Christians diagnosed with an addiction to food, drugs, or alcohol who were in a Twelve Step program. Researchers tested the concurrent validity of the RSI by testing to see if it could differentiate

I will present a discussion of three papers which focus on empirical methods to study addictive behaviors, narrowly defined in the sense that I mean methods to measure addiction itself rather than the broader literature on all aspects of addictive goods. Two of these papers were published a few

The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to examine the association between college students ’ levels of gaming addictive behavior and their levels of student satisfaction and student success in a computer-based learning environment. Additionally, gender was investigated as a

The Relapse Prevention (RP) model has been a mainstay of addictions theory and treatment since its introduction three decades ago. This paper provides an overview and update of RP for addictive behaviors with a focus on developments over the last decade (2000-2010). Major treatment outcome studies

Scientific information about the neurobiology of addictive behaviors provides an increasingly important rationale to support opioid agonist pharmacotherapy, primarily methadone maintenance treatment, for long-term heroin addiction. In late 1963 and 1964, the first research was performed

Abstract. This article performs a theoretical justification of problem of teenagers' addictive behavior in Internet environment. The authors of the work represent a multiple number of psychological and pedagogical researches of modern schoolchildren's addictive behavior manifestation