CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY

Chemical Dependency

Chemical Dependency

Introduction

Chemical dependency is a primary disease that affects one in ten people. It is a disease that if untreated can be fatal. The symptoms of chemical dependency are unable to stop using drugs or drinking, despite the physical, mental, familial, social, financial, legal or otherwise. Denial is a common feature of those who suffer this disease: Normally, the chemical dependent is the latest to understand and support your state and recognizes that it needs help. For this reason, relatives, or others close to the chemically dependent, play a fundamental role in the start of patient treatment (McAuliffe, 2010).

Discussion

There are several approaches available and in practice to control the chemical dependencies and curing patients from them.

The Motivational Interviewing

The motivational interviewing is an approach based on empirical evidence that, has proven effective in helping to overcome the ambivalence typical restraining people in achieving the desired changes. The motivational interviewing has spread all over the world, to become the system of primary importance in the treatment of addictive behaviors.

General Principles of Motivational Interviewing

The patient-centered therapist needs to offer three critical features to facilitate change: empathy, emotional warmth, and authenticity. The Motivational Interviewing consists of a series of theoretical and practical elements that seek to improve the communication skills of primary care professionals (Miller, 2009).

The five principles of Motivational Training:

Express empathy. It means accepting and respecting the patient but not necessarily approve. Implies a certain degree of emotional solidarity trying to understand their thoughts and emotions wondering how I would feel in your circumstances? Does it coincide emotion I have with which he expresses me, how I convey you understand? The empathic response is a definite skill that comes with training and to understand and accept what the other expresses. To express, solidarity with gestures and words sincerely. Empathy is the backbone of MS because, to the pain that the patient provided by the change, feeling that emotional support is very useful.

Develop discrepancy: get the patient to recognize where they are and where you want to be on the habit or behavior change. Interest in increasing their level of conflict, especially between current behavior and values of your life. Working the excitement generated by the discomfort of doubt and / or conflict is the greatest engine for change. To increase the effectiveness of the interview is important to get the patient to verbalize their differences.

Do not argue and discuss with the patient about the appropriateness or utility of a change because this can create resistance. Direct arguments and attempts to convince tend to produce opposition to the directions, orders or suggestions for change. This opposition is called psychological reactance (the more you insist the more health the patient is closed), and often arises when the person has the perception that their choice limited and, in general, when the sense of freedom curtailed. It is also important, not to rush with a wealth of information useful to report being more slowly and be wondering what you think of this I said? Focusing ...