Theories of Addiction

4. A long-acting opioid agonist dispensed under medical supervision to reduce cravings and withdrawal.
5. Who is known as the Father of Social Learning Theory.
7. A comprehensive theory that explains addiction through biological, psychological, and social influences.
8. This type of therapy is the primary treatment strategy with the Social Learning Theory. It can often involve family counseling and peer support.
12. What type of addiction involves behaviors rather than substances, such as gambling or overeating?
13. Which therapy helps people identify and change harmful thinking and behavior patterns?
15. Which model views addiction as a chronic, relapsing illness that requires diagnosis, treatment, and support? It is also known as the Disease Model.
16. The Social Learning experiment involving children imitating aggression toward an inflatable toy.

1. A treatment approach that combines mindfulness, acceptance, distress tolerance, and emotional regulation skills.
2. What learning process involves observing and copying another person’s behavior?
3. Learned behavior shaped by conditioning, cues, and consequences is central to this model.
4. What abbreviation refers to treatment that combines approved medications with counseling and behavioral therapy?
6. A process in which behavior continues because it is rewarded or produces a perceived benefit.
8. The model that suggests inherited traits may account for part of a person’s addiction risk.
9. This model explains addiction through thoughts, emotions, coping patterns, trauma, and mental health needs.
10. The oldest theory of addiction; it emphasizes personal choice, blame, and lack of self-control.
11. This medically managed facility is recommended for individuals with severe withdrawal symptoms from heroin or other opiate addiction.
14. A medication with buprenorphine that can reduce cravings and withdrawal symptoms from opioids. It can be self-administered at home.