Substance theory

Descartes' Theory of Substance Dualism Throughout the history of man, philosophers have tried to come up with an explanation of where our minds, or consciousness, came from and how we are able to have a nonphysical characteristic of ourselves. Does our physical brain automatically give us nonphysical characteristics like feelings, thoughts, and desires or is there something else there, the mind, that interacts with our bodies and makes us feel, think, and desire? Also, is the mind the

it, perceive it, and understand it. In the Categories, Aristotle develops a logical system of classification for relating properties and substance to one another in a hierarchical manner. In order to do so, he develops a system of ontology that offers a quite different explanation from that presented by early philosophers, such as Plato in his Realm of Forms theory. Through his Physics, he further explains, drawing heavily on the Categories, how it is that the fundamental units of existence and properties

alcohol and substance abuse (Public Health England, 2016). The therapies that they received in their treatment are based upon well-evidenced theories including those that focus upon biological, learning and cognitive explanations in relation to addiction in an attempt to reduce desires and cravings for substances. Reber and Reber (2001) define addiction as "any psychological or physiological overdependence of an organism on a drug" (p.11). In order to develop useful therapies, these theories and their

severely mentally ill and substance abuse. Substance abuse is often seen in adolescents and adults, whether they are mentally ill or not. Mental illness and substance abuse is more commonly known as a dual diagnosis. Often times, the treatment for this particular diagnosis is harder to treat than if each condition were treated on its own. Early treatment of dually diagnosed disorders may be a prevention strategy to end future problematic behaviors. The combination of substance abuse and mental illness

Psychology Theory The theory that I chose to use for the psychology side of addiction is the social and environmental aspects on the person with the addiction. There is no real definition of the social and environmental conditions of addiction but it basically means how the person starts their addiction whether it is by where they usually spend heir time or if the people around them are doing these drugs also. But some of these reasons include feeling that they have to use these substances because

agree with the “Gateway Theory” only because I have friends and family who are professional weed smokers and they have been that way since their late teens. Until this day most of them still only smoke weed and don’t take part in dealing with any other drugs. I feel if weed or alcohol was a gateway drug that leads to using stronger and/or more illegal drugs, then we would see this happening to most weed smokers and alcohol drinkers but we don’t. I support the “Disease Model Theory” because it makes more

involves rearrangement of the molecular structure of a substance. Once this happens, you will not be able to reverse the chemical change. To observe the factors that affect the reaction, an experiment was performed on CaCO3 to explore the many states of matter. Kinetic theory is the first topic to explore. Kinetic theory is the amount of energy each state has. For example, solids have little kinetic energy and gas has the most. The denser the substance is, the less kinetic energy it has. All matter is

be a very challenging, yet extremely rewarding one. There are many skills and qualities that the successful counselor possesses. Carl Rogers was the first to spearhead the movement of person centered therapy and he has provided a very influential theory on how a person in treatment should be treated. He deemed these to be the most important elements in the therapeutic movement: unconditional positive regard- helps makes change happen because they feel safe and cared about, accurate empathy- it is

will be outstanding. When pondering about a theory that would fit with the things I witnessed at the meeting and the questions I would as a person, I believe that there are specifically two that would coincide with each other. Those theories are the social learning theory and the strain theory. Social learning theory is defined as the view that people learn by observing the actions of others (Social Learning Theory). On the contrary, Strain theory is defined as the society putting pressure on individuals

There are many reasons why individuals have a substance abuse addiction. There are many theories and pathways that have been researched and linked to substance abuse. However, according to David Smith, MD (n.d), the three most important aspects of the development of addiction progress is due to emotional, physical, and existence of addict’s addiction (Inaba & Cohen, 2014). In addition, according to Inaba and Cohen (2014), Individuals can have substance disorders resulting from combinations of environmental