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What treatment ought to be if you choose to go with addiction counseling.
Addiction counselors ought to firstly address and point out the symptoms and outcomes of the addiction with the patient. For example, point out physical matters that have deteriorated in the patient since his addiction began. Call attention to weight loss, carpel tunnel or any other physical feature you see changed.
Also talk over how the addictions have resulted in modifying the patient's life, like losing friends, losing an occupation, getting financially unstable or getting in scuffles with the law. These subjects ought to be discussed with the patient till the patient recognizes they' comprehend that they were a direct cause of overusing the addiction.
You ought to recognize urges to use and discuss what drives these urges, like tension, personal crises at home or low self-respect. The counselor should recognize the causes of these impulses, discuss how the addictions don't help solve the issue at hand and then encourage and motivate the patient to achieve abstinence and to discover new ways to resolve the trouble at hand.
As a recovery plan, the addict ought to be monitored for usage. The addict ought to be rewarded and encouraged when doing well, and a counselor should discuss why an addict did use if this does occur. The addict and the counselor ought to discuss and together discover novel ways for the patient to solve life's issues and to make him happy, like meditating, working out, writing of song lyrics, volunteering or joining a support group. The end goal is to have addicts turn operational, responsible, and productive.
For patients whose addiction resulted in significant damages to their personal lives, a goal is also set to recover from these damages and possibly make amends. To begin, counseling sessions ought to be held between the addict and her acquaintances or loved ones whose relationships were tarnished or altered due to the addiction.
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