In this discussion, you will pretend you are going to offer psychoeducation about addiction and its impact on the body to your clients. Your psychoeducation should answer these two questions: What is addiction? How is it impacting your body?
You will practice providing psychoeducation on this topic to your client. In your post, please share the following:
Who do you imagine your client to be? Will it be an adolescent? An adult? Will that person be going through a detox process or in treatment of some kind? You are encouraged to choose a population that you anticipate you might work with in the future.
Explain the most important information to provide to your client in an age appropriate way.
Create a handout that you could use to review the information with the client. Share this as a PDF with the class. The idea is to create a group of “resources” in MN that you all can save to use in practice.
Requirements: 1 PAge
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It is evident that most adolescents quit the detoxifying process before it is officially over, which has numerous impacts on the individuals. Most adolescents who quit detoxification and fail to continue with treatment usually have difficulty concentrating in school, engage in violence, and some experience premature death. Different interventions are available to support curbing addiction (Ekhtiari, Rezapour, Aupperle, & Paulus, 2017). They include family involvement in therapy, group intervention, adolescent community reinforcement approach, facilities in residentials, interviews for motivation, and legal interventions. All these interventions help one recover from both physical and mental distress ensuring they live a healthy life.
