Trauma and Addictions
This course aims to explore the nature of the relationship between trauma (especially childhood trauma) and addiction. The hypothesis that addictions are a functional escape from pain (Durand, 1986) will be explored. People in active addiction will often continue to move from crisis to crisis. And paradoxically the tendency towards further addictive behaviour as a response to crisis will be explored. The counsellor is well placed to reflect the contextual stressors that client’s...
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$300
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Trauma and Addictions
<p>This course aims to explore the nature of the relationship between trauma (especially childhood trauma) and addiction. The hypothesis that addictions are a functional escape from pain (Durand, 1986
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Let’s Talk About Gambling
Problems related to gambling can present in a range of guises such as financial, legal, relationship, housing, drug and alcohol, child protection and mental health concerns. Therefore, it is likely that professionals working in a range of settings other than the gambling specific context will encounter people with gambling related problems. Raising and addressing the issue of gambling within non-specialist settings can pose a challenge for professionals. However, the opportunity to...
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From Addiction to Connection and Recovery
It has been said that the opposite of addiction is connection, but to what specifically should a person seeking recovery be connecting to? Some find strength in their connection to family and loved ones, for some it’s God, and some it’s a connection to land. We each have our own sense of connection and hold our own meaning to this. However, the strengths gained from any connection firstly depends on connection to self – it is only through our inner self that we can feel a sense of...
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Unravelling Poly Addictions – Addressing Substance Dependency and Behavioural Addictions
The impact of stimulating the reward systems of the brain is evident across the full range of addictive behaviour. Biochemically methamphetamine closely resembles dopamine. Chasing the highs and euphoria of addictive substances or addictive behaviour leads to temporary satiation of the reward systems. For the psychology of the user at these times ‘all is right with the world’. Yet all is not right. The feeling of satiation is temporary and distant from the reality of active...
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