Workshop
The Historical Context
Theories of Alcohol and Other Drug Use
Social Learning Theory
Major psychological effects of Alcohol
and Other Drugs
Neurobiology of AOD
Loss of Control and Craving
Recovering from AOD Dependencies
Treatment of AOD Disorders
Treatment based on Conditioning
theories)
Treatment of AOD Disorders
Treatment based on Pharmacotherapy
Treatment of AOD Disorders
Motivational Interviewing and Other
Psychological Interventions
Relapse after Treatment of AOD
Disorders
Cognitive Processes, Self-Management
and Self-Regulation
Exam Revision Focus
Historical models (e.g., disease model of alcoholism, early
pharmacological model)
Biopsychosocial theories that conceptualise why people use drugs
(tension reduction, negative affect model,
personality/temperament model)
Type I and Type II alcoholics
The Zinberg’s DIE model
The social learning theory principles and assumptions
Positive and negative expectancies (or outcome expectancy)
Positive and Negative reinforcement
Robins’ (2001) study involving Vietnam Vets
Balanced placebo design study
Bechara et al. (2002)
McCann et al. (1999)
Neuropsychological theories that predict neurological impairments
from alcohol (e.g., frontal lobe hypothesis, Wernicke-Korsakoff
syndrome)
Major limitations of studies that examined effects of alcohol on
mood
Domi et al. (2020) (neurobiology underpinning alcohol addiction
and alcohol seeking behaviour)
Volkow et al. (2017) (prefrontal cortex and modulating food and
drug addiction)
Spanagel (2017) (animal model and relapse behaviour, drug
craving and behavioural animal paradigm)
Characteristics of craving
Loss of control and expectancy
Stages of change model
Decisional balanced sheet (pros and cons of change)
McNally and Palfai (2001)- link between readiness to change and
expectancies
Classical conditioning/ Operant conditioning
Aversive conditioning (Antabuse/disulfiram)
Cue extinction
Siegel’s (2001) findings
Soyka and Mutschler (2016) (treatment for cocaine addiction,
rTMS, treatment for alcoholism)
Yardley and Ray (2017) (clinical trial medication, medication for
alcoholism treatment, preclinical)
Reasons why addicts did not seek treatment for drug problems
CBT principles (e.g., core belief, cognitive distortions)
Les’ negative belief- cocaine dependent individual
MI or MET principles
Abstinence violation effect (AVE)
High risk situations
Hendershot et al. (2011) (Cognitive behavioural model of relapse,
Marlatt’s Model of relapse)
Miller & Brown (1993)
Miller et al. (2000) – self-regulation
Self-talk
Self-efficacy