Cognitive-Behavior Intervention

Cognitive-Behavior Intervention

Every day millions of people struggle with the same addictions and for many of them there is no help. This addiction causes normally amazing people to become violent, irrational, or just lazy. These addictions often times causes individuals to lose their jobs, put their families into stress and often times will break up their families. This addiction is drug and alcohol abuse. In our paper we will look at helping these individuals, the tools used to help these individuals and the steps involved to get the person the help that they need.

Alcohol and drug abuse are a major problem in our society today. Alcohol and drug abusers need help in coping with the addiction. Cognitive behavior therapy has different methods of helping individuals to cope with their addiction. For one it will help to identify their problem and to help them have control over their wanting to use. One of the methods would be to identify the want or needs to have the drugs or alcohol. Certain methods of cognitive behavior therapy will show the negative and positive consequences of alcohol drug use (National Institute of Drug Abuse, 2009). This will help an individual's to form a plan to avoid the urge of the addiction. Research show that once a patient has been introduced to cognitive behavior therapy and has gone through that type of therapy they are less likely to return to alcohol and drug use. This method will help the client to stay alcohol and drug free. Not only does cognitive behavior therapy to stay drug -free. But it allows a patient to know why they have an addiction. The first step would be to find out what they problem is that brings about the drug or alcohol use. Once this is known, it will be the process of the patient to come to term with what it is they really want to achieve.

Research has been done to show the effectiveness with the cognitive-management principles. This is just another method to use to help a patient want to do better and not use drugs or alcohol. It is like a reward system. A patient can receive rewards for every time they turn in a drug-free urine sample. Some of the rewards consist of food vouchers, movie passes, or other personal goods (National Institute of Drug Abuse, 2009). There are different methods taken for each patient. Not only does it help the patient to find ways to cope with their addiction but it also motivates them to want to do better for themselves. There are all sorts of methods available for the patients. There is the sponsor system, where one can call their sponsor when they feel they are feeling the urge to relapse. There is the group session to help patients/clients to know they are not by themselves. Sometimes it is easier to cope with the process of healing when a person knows they are not alone in this type of situation. Cognitive behavior therapy is good with helping patient and clients in becoming drug-free and staying drug-free.

There are many individuals who find themselves addicted to drugs and alcohol. They are at first in denial that they are in fact addicted to the substance. These individuals may find their life or health in danger but they cannot change this new way of life that the individual has become adapted to. According to Drug and Alcohol Abuse Intervention by Joe Herzanek, "approximately 85 percent of the time this person will accept the help that is being offered. This means that 15 percent will still refuse to acknowledge their dependency problems", March 14, 2008. In the human service field the clinician may be finding this type of abuse and addiction common in the field they are practicing in. The clinician must first find a plan of care that is going to be beneficial to the client. The clinician may use the cognitive behavioral tools. This will consist of coping skills. The clinician along with the client would come up with a way for the client to cope with things that are stressful or may trigger the need to want