Addiction Counselling: Approaches, Treatment Plans and Strategies

This report examines addiction counselling, focusing on various therapeutic approaches and treatment plans. It explores the application of behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and the integration of different therapeutic styles. The report highlights the importance of considering factors like genetics, gender, age, mental illness, and socio-cultural background when developing treatment plans for drug abusers. The author emphasizes the benefits of cognitive behavioral therapy and the need to understand the interplay between different therapeutic approaches for effective intervention. The report also references key literature that supports the discussed concepts.

Running head: ADDICTION COUNSELLING

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Psychotherapeutic approaches appeals to your therapeutic styles.
There are a number of psychotherapeutic approaches which are considered by the
therapists while developing treatments plans for the addicted clients. The therapeutic approaches
include, individual therapies, group therapies, couple therapies, family oriented therapies,
psychodynamic therapies, interpersonal therapies and the behavioral therapies. Each if these
therapeutic approaches include different approaches however the approach which appeals to me
most is the behavioral therapy (Wetherill, & Tapert, 2013). It engages the people in the drug
abuse treatment and includes reward and recognition modes in order to make them be abstinent
from the drug abuses.
Along with the different approaches there are different therapeutic styles as well, among
all these styles the therapeutic style that appeal me the most is the cognitive behavioral therapy.
The therapists make the people involved in such behaviors recognize the maladaptive behaviors
themselves and then provide then aim at developing cognitive skills among them to battle the
addictive situations. It is paired with a number of clinical and manual treatments which help the
drug abusers and the therapists to easily follow these (Wetherill, & Tapert, 2013). More
importantly, such an approach has a long lasting benefits.
Integration of the approaches and modalities is clinically indicated.
The integration of the therapeutic approaches and the therapeutic styles are clinically
inter related and this can be understood from the way the styles are performed. For example, the
cognitive behavioral therapy are essentially included by the behavioral therapists, and the
theoretical and the practical underpinnings of both are quite similar (Cummings, & Sayama,
2013).

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Specific factors to consider when creating a treatment plan.
The factors that must be considered by the therapists while developing a treatment plan
for the drug abusers are, genetics, gender, age group, mental illness, socio- cultural background,
peer group, presence of stress among the abusers, accessibility to drugs, environment of the
home, and relation with the family (Heilig, 2016).

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References:
Cummings, N., & Sayama, M. (2013). Focused psychotherapy: A casebook of brief intermittent
psychotherapy throughout the life cycle. Routledge.
Heilig, M., Epstein, D. H., Nader, M. A., & Shaham, Y. (2016). Time to connect: bringing social
context into addiction neuroscience. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 17(9), 592.
Wetherill, R., & Tapert, S. F. (2013). Adolescent brain development, substance use, and
psychotherapeutic change. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 27(2), 393.