Stereotyping and Inclusivity Strategies for Alcohol Dependence Patients

This report discusses the commonality of vulnerable patient groups with alcohol dependence, the negative impact of stereotyping, and effective strategies to promote inclusivity. It also covers the risks associated with alcohol dependence and the importance of self-awareness reflection.

Nursing Assignment

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
BACKGROUND INFORMATION................................................................................................1
STEREOTYPING OF CHOSEN GROUP......................................................................................2
IMPACT OF STEREOTYPING.....................................................................................................3
STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE INCLUSIVITY.............................................................................4
REFLECTION ON SELF-AWARENESS AND RESILIENCE.....................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The development of alcohol dependence is generally a dynamic as well as complex
process. There are various neurobiological as well as the environmental components generally
influence the motivation to drink. At any of the given time, the propensity of a person to imbibe
is generally thought to reflect a balance among the positive reinforcing effects of the alcohol like
decrease of anxiety, euphoria as well as the adverse effects of the medications, that are
specifically linked with negative consequences of alcohol intake, for example withdrawal or
hangover symptoms and many more. In United Kingdom, the most common age group in which
people can drink or consume alcohol such as age between 45 to 64-age-years. England had the
greatest proportion of the young adults about 58% who specifically said that they drank or
consume alcohol in the earlier weeks. In this, the report will cover the specific background
information about the commonality of the vulnerable patient or client group such as alcohol
dependence. There is a discussion about the stereotyping of the alcohol dependence people that
the common stereotyping behaviours of the community has mainly imparted towards the
vulnerable patient or client group. In addition to this, the report will also cover effective
strategies that are used to promote the inclusivity of the vulnerable patient or client group as well
as the effective strategies which the care nurses use to support the patient to aid them in
achieving a healthier life (Levak et. al., 2012).
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The dependency of alcohol is generally a chronic illness in which the people specifically
crave the consumption of alcohol as well as is not able to control their drinking habits as well.
The people having such disorders can require consuming high amounts to get the similar effects
as well as can involve the withdrawal symptoms after quitting the consumption of alcohol. The
dependency of alcohol can simply make impact over the physical as well as mental well-being
and can cause several issues within families, peers, and work as well. In addition to this, daily
consumption of alcohol can effectively enhance the developing risks of various types of cancer
and many more. In this, an exact cause of excessive or alcohol dependence is generally not
known, there are various elements which can elevate an individual's risk for developing such
disorders. In this, the very known risk elements can involve having; more than about 15 drinks
per week if a person is male, can consume more than 12 alcohol drinks per week. The general
symptoms in the alcohol dependence can involve mild, moderate as well as severe and many
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more. It can involve, feeling a strong craving or urge to drink alcohol (Orton et. al., 2015). A
person does not able to restrict the amount of alcohol that they drink and so on. An individual
who generally drink can effectively develop a tolerance towards alcohol so that person can
require more to feel its effect, or they have a decreased effect from the similar amount. A person
may experience the withdrawal symptoms like sweating, nausea as well as shaking when they do
not drink or can drinking to limit these such symptoms. In addition to this, the alcohol
dependence can also involve a periods of alcohol inebriation as well as the withdrawal
symptoms. In context with intoxication of alcohol, it generally outcomes as the amount of
alcohol within their blood streams can enhances. In this, the increased rates of blood alcohol
consumption are, the more impaired an individual can become. The intoxication of alcohol can
significantly cause the alterations in mental as well as behavioural issues. In contrast with
withdrawal of alcohol, it can happen when the consumption of alcohol has been increased as well
as prolonged and is then quit efficiently. The symptoms can occur within various hours to the
five to six days later. Furthermore, the signs and symptoms involved in this can be increased
heartbeats, sweating, sleeping issues, hand tremors, vomiting, restlessness and many more.
STEREOTYPING OF CHOSEN GROUP
Dislike the fact that addiction can make influence over numerous people within the
world, there is still much of the stigma that is attached to this such disorder, most of the people
generally involve their own stereotypes of what an addiction is. In this, there is no such
experience of the addiction which can involve an opinion which is generally recalled when the
people can hear the word addiction as well as in most of cases, this is different to the reality. In
context with negative assumptions, the people who generally have never had to deal with such
alcohol dependence can develop the negative opinions from the things which they have generally
seen on the televisions or in the movies as well. It can be that they have only ever heard the bad
stories in the press about the crimes that are being committed by the people who are specifically
affected by addiction. Into this, an addiction can specifically causes the people to act in a way
that they will not be considered before they were sick, not every addict is a bad person.
Furthermore, there are various negative assumptions made about the people who are specifically
being affected by the addiction, most can believe them all to be homeless, unemployed, the
school dropouts, prostitute as well as the criminals. They usually think that the people who are
addict can inject the drugs down dark alleyways or can sit within the public parks and consuming
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alcohol from the brown paper bags. In addition to this, it is generally these stereotypes which can
effectively prevent various addicts from reaching out for the help which they generally require to
cope their alcohol dependence (Bridges et. al., 2011).
IMPACT OF STEREOTYPING
In this, some of the behaviours of alcoholism are specifically challenging to recognize as
they can improve in other people to which a person can interact with frequent. The things which
are acceptable infrequently become more common, or various troubling behaviours can become
the norm before an individual can realize it. It can involve, constant fixation over alcoholism, a
controlled and uncontrolled drinking, mood swings, having lack of motivation and priorities as
well, the financial struggles as well. In context with constant fixation over alcoholism, an even
stronger warning that a person is chemically dependent over a substance is if they are
consistently making the effective plans around it. This can be frequently meetings at bars,
making sure that there is a frequently liquor stocked just in case or can asking about the
consumption of alcohol which will be available in convinced social situations. In addition to this,
the patterns like this must immediately increases the flags about the dependency on consumption
of alcohol (Adult drinking habits in Great Britain, 2018). Alcoholism is generally all about stress
or anxiety as well as the fear of not able to consume alcohol if required can causes severe anxiety
rates within people. if a person requires to have the alcohol around, and not importantly can
consume it, this is particularly a sign of having an unhealthy relationship with alcohol as well as
an underlying dependence of alcohol. In context with controlled and uncontrolled consumption
of alcohol, the alcoholics can generally follow the patterns of both controlled and uncontrolled
drinking’s. within the periods of controlled drinking, an alcoholic people can specifically restrict
their intake of alcohol to just enough via the day to keep their withdrawal symptoms of alcohol at
bay. Some of the controlled drinking’s can last up to 3 to 5 days in which a person cannot
consume alcohol at all. Within the periods of uncontrolled drinking’s, a person who consume
alcohol will binge the drink or go on a bender as well. when the people do not drink, they
generally tend to be restless, more miserable, irritable as well as dissatisfaction. In this, remove
the alcohol as well as its associated behaviours which can drive the alcohol use come through. In
this, both the extrinsic as well as intrinsic ca specifically contribute to the improvement of
consumption of alcoholism. The intrinsic element can generally involve psychological
conditions, genetics, the personal choices, personality as well as a person having a history of
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drinking. Furthermore, the extrinsic elements can involve environment, social, family, religions,
the cultural norms, education, age as well as the status within the jobs and so on (Marraccini et.
al., 2019).
The risk of enhancing a variety of well-being illness can elevates the more a person can
drink on daily basis. Consuming alcohol on daily basis can specifically lead to a variety of
critical well-being issues as well as being dependent on the alcohol is more likely to enhance
their risks. There can involve the cancer of mouth, breast, or throat as well as other major
medical conditions consisting of the breast cancer, bowel cancer, pancreatitis, the elevated blood
pressure levels, coronary alcohol associated cardiac illness. A person who can consume daily
alcohol or dependent over alcohol can frequently experience a reduced mental well-being
condition. In this, depression, anxiety as well as the feeling of suicide can all improves
efficiently when a person is alcohol dependent. It is partly, because daily and heavy consumption
of alcohol can interfere with the chemicals in the human brain which are specifically required for
a positive as well as good mental well-being as well (Ojeda, Whitesell, Berkman and Plutzer,
2019).
STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE INCLUSIVITY
There are the public policies that are specifically aimed at decreasing the misuse of alcohol
in England and UK, currently provide priorities to altering the harmful drinking behaviours of a
person. In addition to this, the binge drinking has received the considerable attention due to its
relationship with the public drunkenness, acute harms as well as an antisocial behaviour. The
specific public well-being information campaigns like “Know Your Limits” [within England]
and “Don’t Push It” [within Scotland] attempt to increase the awareness of the danger of
drinking to excess within a single session. In this, the primary strategy which is specifically
employed by the policies to control such abuse is generally the promotion of an informed choices
or a sensible drinking via an effective education initiative, that it is specifically hoped will
change the behaviours of people more efficiently. The concentration over choices of people as
well as the personal responsibility can enable the higher administration to effectively address the
possible harms and costs linked with alcohol abuse generally without imposing an unpopular
limitation over the freedom of an individual. In addition to this, the alcohol harm control policies
can specifically use the effective strategies to manage the consumption at the population level. In
this, the major concerns on the failure of education-based alcohol policy within United Kingdom
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have significantly led to call for such changes that are needed to be introduced. It can turn to
more conventional public well-being measures such as limited hours of sale, elevation within
prices is generally encouraged by a higher commitment to the public goods as well as an
awareness of the role the surrounding environment generally plays in supporting or endangering
the well-being. The alcohol policy in the United Kingdom generally claims to reflect the shift
towards the inclusive, population based effective alcohol policies. In this, an initial Scottish
document of the policy can consistently employ the terminology alcohol issues to refers to the
overall spectrum of harm both actual and potential generally linked with abuse of alcohol.
Furthermore, to undermining the health of a alcoholism, these such unique of various types of
harms are, as with the various other forms of abuse of alcohol generally linked with lost
productivity, the specific burdens over the NHS and an incalculable but specific social harms
mainly experienced by the relatives as well as a person’s close contacts (McGrew et. al., 2020).
REFLECTION ON SELF-AWARENESS AND RESILIENCE
It is effectively analysed by me that the addiction of substance abuse is mainly
characterized by a compromised decision making as well as monitoring the behaviours and an
absence of flexibility in altering the earlier behaviours which generally does not produce the
effective as well as favourable results as well. In this, with the various other neuro-psychiatric
illnesses of an impaired self awareness such as Alzheimer's illness, schizophrenia or it can be
focal brain lesions, consisting an impairment of the self-awareness within addiction can
specifically reflect the underlying abnormalities in the attribution of the personal relevance to the
salient stimuli. The deficit within self-awareness can range from a complete denial of the whole
disorders to more specific meta-cognitive awareness inadequacy of a people illness-specific
symptoms, the impairments or a performance as well as can vary among the psycho-pathologies
as well. It is effectively determined that the consumption of alcohol generally based on the
premises that the alcohol can serves to reduce the levels of self-awareness among people. As per
this analysis, the alcohol can specifically interferes with an encoding procedures essential to the
self-awareness states, therefore reducing the sensitivity of a person to both the self-relevance of
the cues in correspondence with a suitable forms of the behaviours as well as the self-evaluative
feedback of nature about the earlier behaviours. To that extent as the latter form of efficient
informations can give a source of the self criticism as well as the negative affects, an alcohol as a
suppressor of the self-aware processing is generally the thought to give a root of the mental
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comfort as well. It is effectively concluded that the models of self-awareness can founded a very
useful framework within which a wide base of the social behavioural as well as cognitive effects
of alcohol and insights towards the motivation behind consuming alcohol can be efficiently
conceived. In addition to this, the daily or heavy drinking habit can interferes with the chemicals
within the human brain which are generally the essential for the good as well as positive mental
well-being. So, a person may feel relaxed after consuming alcohol, in the long-term the
consumption or intake of alcohol has a significant impact over the mental well-being as well as
can contribute to the feelings of anxiety and depression as well and can make the stress more
hard to deal with. Furthermore, having self-awareness within addiction or alcohol dependence
recovery is also an essential aspect. In this, when combined, recovery as well as self-awareness
can specifically produces a great outcomes. Being self-aware within alcohol dependence or in
addiction recovery is essential for various reasons such that having awareness can promote the
selflessness, it can effectively supports the independence, it can efficiently aid to determine the
bad and the good. Moreover, it can help a person and keep them accountable (Wanigasooriya et.
al., 2021).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it is analysed that the interference of alcohol among people in
a manner that it can affect the thinking capability as well as can make them far more likely to act
carelessly. If the young people can consume much alcohol, they are generally more likely to end
up within a dangerous conditions. The main reason that is being found within the whole
discussion is that there are some of the specific components that can attract the young people
towards alcoholism or the drinking habits such as failure, argumentative behaviours, lack of will-
power, the psychological conditions, having drinking history, family conditions and many more.
In addition to this, the people who can consume alcohol on daily basis are generally more likely
to commit a criminal offence as those who don't consume. It is identified that more than the two
young adults who consume alcohol generally commit violent offences like assaults and robbery
and many more. The adults who can get involved within crimes are also more likely to end up
with a criminal record. This can eventually damage their prospects for the rest of their life.
Furthermore, having a criminal record can specifically prevent a person from the occupation,
travelling to abroad and so on. In order to reduce the alcohol dependence of a person, there must
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be an action plan so that they can effectively reduce the impact such as provide the medication
like acamprosate and Naltrexone for the treatment in conjunction with the behaviour therapy.
Having a habit of excessive alcohol can significantly impact over the mental health and can
make it worse with time. When a person can excessively consume alcohol, he or she may
develop the feelings of depression, anxiety and suicidal feelings as well. This is partially because
the heavy as well as daily drinking can interferes with the chemicals within the human brain
which are significantly required for the positive as well as good mental well-being.
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Online:
Adult drinking habits in Great Britain, 2018 [Online], Available through:
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