Mental Health Treatment for Addicts

Abstract

The paper defines the mental health treatments for the addicts who commit crimes. The paper talks about the different mental disorders that the addicts face , which leads them towards committing crimes. The paper explains different treatments for these patients in detail and how they can be implemented to provide benefits to the society.

Contents

Introduction4

Thesis Statement:4

Discussion4

The Treatment for Addicts7

Criminal Justice7

Counseling7

Psychoanalytic approaches8

Cognitive therapy of substance abuse9

Emotion regulation, mindfulness and substance abuse10

Behavioral models10

Model of the disease and the twelve step program10

Criminal Rehabilitation11

Types of rehabilitation11

Conclusions13

Mental Health Treatment for Addicts

Introduction

Throughout history and across cultures different types of disorders have been reported, despite the vagueness and the difficulties involved in its definition. Throughout history, and until relatively recent times, madness was not considered as a disease but it was rather considered as human depravity or spiritual cases of curse or demonic possession. Psychiatry was considered as respectable science in 1790; Philippe Pinel decided to remove the strings to the mentally ill, introducing a psychological perspective and started making objective clinical studies. Since then, it began to work in asylums, would define the main types of mental illness and its treatment, as well as personality disorders, within which are the paranoid and schizoid on this occasion at hand. Personality is the pattern of feelings and thoughts related to behavior that persists over time and situations. The attributes are unique to each individual, and that is what characterizes us as separate and distinct entities.

Thesis Statement:

Personality disorders have a significant influence on the commission of crime

Discussion

Finding a place for personality disorders within the field of medicine has not been an easy task. For many, the term personality disorder lacks sufficient respectability. For many years this term has been associated with negative characteristics such as moral degeneration, intractability and conflict. The patient with a personality disorder is described as abnormal and dysfunctional. Along with this, the diagnosis of personality disorder usually involves intractable label from the medical point of view and often leads to deprivation of the same professional assistance.

More than a patient, in these cases it is a subject with problem behaviors, malicious or manipulative. Unlike other mental disorders, personality disorders often result in judgments by both value issued from the moral prism of the evaluator. It would be appropriate then minimally delve into what the experts on the subject called paranoid personality disorder and schizoid.

In the same manner the psychological disorders in the case of addicts and criminals are hard to understand. For some people the urge to commit crimes does not make much sense, but for the criminals the addiction to commit crimes is very strong which controls their behavior and lead them towards committing crimes. Some people are addicted towards such acts that lead them towards commitment of crimes, such as drug addicts that require heavy amount of money to fulfill their requirement of drug intake. These druggies adopt different means of crime such as burglary, theft and other ways to get the money they require for buying the ...