Induced Drinking and Social Adjustment in Alcoholics; Development of a Therapeutic Model

Paredes, Alfonso; Gregory, Dick; Jones, Ben

doi:10.15288/qjsa.1974.35.1279

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“…There is evidence that in heavy, or binge, drinking (in which a low dosehigh dose relation may be present), a low dose of alcohol may elicit alcohol craving (see, e.g., de Wit & Chutuape, 1993;Hodgson et aI., 1979;Ludwig, Wikler, & Stark, 1974;Marconi, Fink, & Moya, 1967;Stein, Niles, & Ludwig, 1968). Second, the study suggests that periodic deliveries of a low dose of alcohol (in the absence of additional alcohol) may help stop heavy drinking, a prediction that has some empirical support (see, e.g., Faillace, Flamer, Imber, & Ward, 1972;Hodgson & Rankin, 1976;Paredes, Gregory, & Jones, 1974;Paredes, Hood, Seymour, & Gollob, 1973). Finally, if low dosehigh dose learning occurs with alcohol, it is possible that low dose-high dose learning may occur with other drugs.…”

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The role of us signal value in contingency, drug conditioning, and learned helplessness

Goddard

1999

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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In Pavlovian conditioning, organisms can learn that a conditioned stimulus (CS) signals the delivery of an unconditioned stimulus (US). The present paper first reviews research showing that organisms can also learn that a stimulus, normally considered to be a US, signals the delivery of another US. Second, the paper shows how such signal value may contribute to three conditioning phenomena that are of interest to many psychologists: contingency, drug conditioning, and learned helplessness. In addition to showing how such signal value may contribute to these three phenomena, suggestions for further research, as well as current gaps in the knowledge base, are outlined.

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Section: "Binge" Drinkingmentioning

confidence: 92%

The role of us signal value in contingency, drug conditioning, and learned helplessness

Goddard

1999

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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“…Ironically, however, the profession's characteristic of analyzing human behavior offers alcoholic psychologists an excellent opportunity to avoid dealing with their own alcohol problem, in that they can hide behind one of their worst fears: of becoming impaired (helpless) like a client, or helpless and unknowing like a student. Paredes, Gregory, and Jones (1974) identified the inability to overcome problems by volitional control as one of the major deterrents to treatment for those suffering from alcohol abuse problems. The lack of control and autonomy inherent in the admission of an alcohol problem promotes regression and denial and, in our opinion, is common among psychologists, who typically use obsessive-compulsive emotional controls.…”

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Alcohol abuse among psychologists.

Thoreson¹,

Skorina²

1986

Professionals in Distress: Issues, Syndromes, and Solutions in Psychology.

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Models of Alcoholismhe term alcoholism has idiosyncratic connotations and usually means what the user chooses it to mean. Much disagreement and controversy abound regarding what constitutes alcoholism. On the one hand, no one T quarrels with the fact that alcohol abuse, be it a disease, a bad habit, or a culturally induced behavior pattern, carries with it a multitude of medical, familial, social, and work problems that dwarf those of any other so-called disease in our society (Vaillant, 1983). On the other hand, alcohol misuse comes in so many guises with so many variations in form and symptoms that fitting all of these manifestations into a well-delineated disease model seems impossible (Jacobson, 1976;Pattison & Kaufman, 1982;Peele, 1984).Throughout the ages, using alcohol as a means of altering consciousness has had an extraordinary appeal to humankind. This simultaneous fascination with and dread of alcohol was depicted by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1918), who suggested that there is in all of us "a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil who has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk' (p. 40). Weil(1972), in studying the universal use of chemical agents to induce alterations in consciousness, concluded that the desire to alter consciousness is an innate, normal drive analogous to hunger or the sexual drive. He emphasized that drugs are but one way of satisfying this drive; many others exist. Glasser (1976) coined the term "positive addiction" to define the attempt to refocus negative addictive behaviors into positive, mind-altering addictions, for example, running and meditating. The classification of alcohol misuse as a moral failing, a bad habit, or a disease has been the subject of major attention over the past 20 years. Fortunately, the view that alcoholism is a moral problem has, in part, been rejected. Yet the skepticism that is attached to selfinflicted diseases remains.The scientifidtreatment community has tended to take either of two major positions on this issue. Those on the social science side tend to prefer

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Nonabstinent Drinking Goals in the Treatment of Alcoholism-Nonabstinent Drinking Goals in the Treatment of Alcoholism

Em¹

1976

Arch Gen Psychiatry

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Induced Drinking and Social Adjustment in Alcoholics; Development of a Therapeutic Model

Cited by 16 publications

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The role of us signal value in contingency, drug conditioning, and learned helplessness

The role of us signal value in contingency, drug conditioning, and learned helplessness

Alcohol abuse among psychologists.

Nonabstinent Drinking Goals in the Treatment of Alcoholism-Nonabstinent Drinking Goals in the Treatment of Alcoholism

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